quick chicken quesadillas

i was looking for a quick and easy weeknight meal with some mexican flair, and i found it with this! super easy, simple, and quick.

ingredients:

9-12 oz refrigerated cooked Southwest OR Fajita flavor chicken breast strips

½ cup Old El Paso Thick n Chunky salsa

1 package (11 oz) Old El Paso flour tortillas for burritos (8 inch; 8 tortillas)

Cooking spray

2 cups finely shredded Colby-Monterey jack cheese blend (8 oz)

¼ cup sour cream

directions:

1. cut chicken into bite-size pieces.

2. in small bowl, combine chicken and salsa.

3. mix chicken and salsa.

4. spray one side of one tortilla with cooking spray. place sprayed side down in 10-inch nonstick skillet.

5. layer with 1/4 of the chicken mixture and 1/2 cup of cheese.

6. top with another tortilla. spray top of tortilla with cooking spray.

7. cook uncovered over medium heat 4-6 minutes, carefully turning after 2 minutes, until golden brown. 

8. repeat with remaining tortillas, chicken mixture and cheese. 

9. to serve, cut quesadillas into wedges. 

10. serve with sour cream and, if desired, additional salsa. i also served this with some rotel cheese dip.

(you can tell which quesadillas went in when the skillet was hottest!)

(served here with the infamous organic blue corn tortilla chips i constantly reference.)

i thought the quesadillas would be hard to flip, but it was quite easy! however, the trick is to load the chicken lightly. it looks light when you add the chicken, but you will have chicken in every bite. also, think of cheese as glue. don't skimp. i didn't measure out 1/2 cup for each quesadilla, but just kept the "cheese as glue" mentality going, and it really helped. of course... if you haven't noticed yet... there's no such thing for me as too much cheese.

next time i make these, i will follow the directions exactly for the hubs, but i may forgo the salsa on mine. i'm the kind of girl that orders my tacos with no lettuce or fixins, so that shouldn't be shocking. the hubs, however, LOVED these and has already asked me to make them again! THAT is success!

fin.