chicken quesadilla

chicken quesadilla's

need chicken
tomatoes
onionns
jalepenos
lemon juice
key lime juice
parsely(or if you want to be authentic cilantro but hubby hates it)
mexican cheese
tortillas


Bake chicken.  I like to do so in a little bit of pepper, oil and some lemon juice.  Or use lemon pepper seasoning.

Make up pico de gallo.

Chop up tomatoes (if you de seed it won't be as watery), chop up jalepeno(take out the seeds and the inner membranes and it will be mild, take out the seeds and leave the inner membrane it will be medium) and chop up a onion.  Add in lemon and key lime juice, maybe a teaspoon, rip up some parsely.  stir and let sit.

When chicken is done, shred that.

Now warm up the frying pan.  (no oil)  toss in tortilla, let it get warm on one side, turn over.  Place in pico de gallo and cheese and chicken.  flip in half.  let it sit till you see cheese start to melt, flip again and squish and take out of pan. 

This is how I learned at friendlies.  It took me a while to figure out to use pico de gallo instead of salsa.  Salsa is to watery and makes the tortilla mushy.  Warming it up and flipping it over makes the tortilla crispy so less prone to mushyness.  Friendlies no longer uses pico de gallo.  I don't know why.  They use seasoned chicken and cheese, sigh.