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El Toro Chicken Quesadilla Recipe
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Combining a few simple ingredients, which are easy to find with a little creativity and imagination, gives you the makings of a quick and simple chicken quesadilla recipe. This dish is easy enough to appeal to any beginner cook and tasty enough to delight young and old alike. If you enjoy international recipes, what about making this scrumptious Mexican snack? The chicken is mildly spices and this is like a gourmet sandwich but far nicer. Quesadillas are really popular in Mexico and, once you taste this fantastic cheese and chicken quesadilla recipe, you will know why.
A Quick and Easy Cheese And Chicken Quesadilla Recipe
The chicken is boiled and shredded in this Mexican inspired chicken quesadilla recipe, before being combined with a spicy sauce, cheese, and onion. The chicken comes out moist and succulent and the other ingredients really complement its flavor and texture. Sliced olives and sour cream are the perfect accompaniments. This cheese and chicken quesadilla recipe is very tasty and all the flavors go together wonderfully. It makes a great lunch or supper.
If you fancy a Mexican style dinner tonight, try out this recipe for size. You can also serve guacamole and tomato salsa on the side and perhaps a portion of spicy rice. Sour cream is another option. Sometimes it is nice to have all the different side dish and accompaniment options laid out on the table and let people serve themselves, so they can assemble their own Mexican delights. A Cabernet Franc is the perfect red wine to serve with this spicy chicken quesadilla recipe. It is less tannic but fruitier than Cabernet Sauvignon.
Whether you are making an El Toro cheese and chicken quesadilla recipe or a plain cheese quesadilla, you will find this classic Mexican dish to be really simple to make. In order to make a quesadilla, you simply put cheese in a flour tortilla, fold it over, and fry it in a skillet. Of course there are many variations to this basic recipe but if you fancy something quick and easy but more exciting than a cheese sandwich, what about making a delicious chicken cheese quesadilla recipe instead?
El Toro Cheese And Chicken Quesadilla Recipe
Ingredients -
4 chicken breast halves, skinless and boneless
16 oz jar mild picante sauce
1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
½ cup sour cream
½ cup sliced black olives
1 chopped onion
8 flour tortillas
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
Preparation:
Put the chicken in a pan and add enough water just to cover it.
Bring the water to a boil and cook the chicken until you can shred it with a fork.
Take the chicken out of the water, shred it and put it to one side, keeping the water.
Heat the oil over a medium heat in a skillet, and then add the onion. Cook until transparent.
Add the picante sauce, the shredded chicken and ½ cup of the chicken water.
Turn the heat down to low and simmer the mixture until the sauce thickens.
This should take 30 minutes.
Take the pan off the heat and sprinkle the Monterey Jack cheese over the mixture.
Divide the cheesy chicken between the flour tortillas, doubling each one over to make semicircles.
Fry them, 1 or 2 at a time, in a pan with a bit of olive oil.
They will turn golden brown in a minute or two.
Garnish the quesadillas with the sliced olives, and serve with sour cream, and your favorite salsa for dipping.We suggest either a homemade salsa with one of our sister site's salsa recipes or Paul Newman's Pineapple Salsa is a great choice for a commercially produced salsa.
(Serves 8)