How to Prepare Award-winning Easy Chicken Quesadillas

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, easy chicken quesadillas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Chicken Quesadillas is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Easy Chicken Quesadillas is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy chicken quesadillas using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Chicken Quesadillas:

1. Get filling
2. Make ready 8-12 flour or corn tortillas based on size, 1 Tblspn canola oil
3. Prepare 2 tablespoons olive oil
4. Get 1/2 red onion diced
5. Make ready 1 jalepeno, seeded, diced
6. Get 1 lg clove garlic minced
7. Make ready 2 tablespoons taco seasoning
8. Get 1 (10 oz) can diced tomato with green chilis, juices reserved
9. Make ready 2 1/2 cups shredded cooked chicken
10. Prepare juice of 1 large lime
11. Take 1 cup large grated sharp cheddar
12. Get 1 cup crumbled queso fresco
13. Get to taste salt
14. Take cilantro cream salsa
15. Make ready 1 cup sour cream
16. Prepare juice and zest of 1 lime
17. Prepare large handful cilantro leaves, chopped
18. Make ready 1 teaspoon red chili flake
19. Get to taste salt

Instructions to make Easy Chicken Quesadillas:

1. Saute onion garlic and jalepeno in olive oil for a few minutes, add taco seasoning and stir to toast for 2-5 minutes until onions are semi translucent
2. Add drained diced tomato, stir. Add shredded chicken, stir until heated through. Add tomato juices as needed for moisture
3. Turn off heat on chicken mixture, cool completely. Stir in cheese. Salt to taste. Set aside.
4. Blend all salsa ingredients and chill until ready to serve
5. On a medium high heat add enough canola oil to just coat a skillet or griddle
6. Place tortilla on skillet, top with chicken mixture leaving a 1/2 inch of room around edges for melting room, top with tortilla
7. Allow first side to crisp up and get golden, flip, repeat with remaining chicken mixture and tortillas
8. Allow each to cool a few minutes and slice in quarters with a pizza cutter. Enjoy with cilantro cream salsa, fresh lime wedges, and fresh chopped cilantro as a garnish
9. Side note. When using acids like lime juice always salt at the end to your preference to avoid over saltiness. Also all spicy heat (peppers and chiles) and seasoning elements can be adjusted to your preference in taste

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