My household loves these simple rooster quesadillas, with gooey cheese and tender rooster cooked in flavorful inexperienced chile sauce. They’re so good that it’s exhausting to eat only one. These are that good!
Save this rooster quesadilla recipe for the subsequent time you want a slam dunk, tremendous flavorful, simple meal. Our green chicken enchiladas impressed the rooster contained in the quesadilla. It’s juicy, tender, and fast!
I really like utilizing homemade flour tortillas, however in the event you’re in a rush, skip that and use your favourite store-bought model as an alternative. For an additional simple, actually scrumptious choice, attempt our vegetable quesadillas or these breakfast quesadillas, that are additionally a private favourite!
Key Elements
- Tortillas: I really like utilizing these flour tortillas or homemade corn tortillas, however in the event you’re brief on time, store-bought works nice. I often use flour for quesadillas, however my son prefers corn, so use no matter you favor!
- Hen: You should utilize both rooster breast or rooster thighs for this recipe. I cook dinner the rooster utilizing a fast and straightforward technique much like my shredded chicken recipe, which retains it juicy and tender.
- Inexperienced Enchilada Sauce: Be happy to make use of your favourite store-bought enchilada sauce (I like to recommend Hatch or Fronterra) or attempt my homemade salsa verde. When you’re not a fan of inexperienced chile sauce, you possibly can swap it for crimson, like this easy enchilada sauce.
- Cheese: When you add cheese, go for one thing that melts properly, like queso de Oaxaca or Monterey Jack. For a dairy-free choice, attempt a spoonful of my scrumptious vegan queso.
The right way to Make Hen Quesadillas
For these rooster quesadillas, you’ll make the rooster first, which could be accomplished days upfront, making it a wonderful meal for busy days. Add your rooster to a saucepan with inexperienced enchilada sauce and gently simmer till cooked by. It takes round 25 minutes on the range. Or, in the event you’d prefer to cook dinner the rooster in an On the spot Pot, see our Instant Pot salsa verde chicken.
After you have your rooster, shred it after which slide it again into the enchilada sauce so it stays juicy and tender. From there, you possibly can construct your quesadillas, including among the juicy rooster and cheese. Then, cook dinner them in a heavy-bottomed pan or skillet—assume forged iron pan, heavy stainless-steel skillet, or the extra conventional comal (a flat griddle utilized in Mexico, Central America, and components of South America).
When the outsides are toasty, and the cheese melts, serve together with your favourite quesadilla toppings and sides. I really like homemade guacamole, recent lime wedges, and slightly bitter cream. To show this right into a full meal, think about some rice and beans. I really like our cilantro lime rice or Mexican rice with homemade refried beans or these saucy black beans.
Inexperienced Chile Hen Quesadillas
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I really like these simple rooster quesadillas with tender rooster cooked in flavorful salsa verde and gooey cheese. You can also make the rooster upfront and maintain it within the fridge or freezer for an additional day. See our storing ideas beneath the recipe!
6 Quesadillas
Watch Us Make the Recipe
You Will Want
3 kilos boneless rooster thighs or rooster breasts
2 cups inexperienced enchilada sauce or Mexican salsa verde
6 medium to massive flour or corn tortillas, see homemade flour tortillas
2 cups gentle melting cheese like queso de Oaxaca or Monterey Jack, shredded, 8 ounces
Spray oil or oil brushed onto the pan
Recent cilantro and lime wedges for serving
Salt, to style
Instructions
- Make Hen
1Mix rooster and inexperienced enchilada sauce (or salsa) in a big, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Flip the warmth to excessive, deliver it to a boil, after which decrease the warmth in order that the sauce simmers very gently across the rooster.
2Partially cowl the pan with a lid, after which cook dinner till the rooster is cooked by and really tender, 20 to half-hour.
3Switch the rooster to a reducing board. When it’s cool sufficient to deal with, shred the meat with two forks or your fingers.
4Stir the shredded rooster again into the sauce. Style the rooster, after which, if it wants it, season with salt.
- Make Quesadillas
1Warmth a heavy-bottomed skillet over medium warmth. Evenly spray or brush the pan with oil, after which place one tortilla into the pan.
2Unfold about 1/3 cup of cheese over the tortilla, after which spoon about 1/2 cup of shredded rooster onto one half, shaking the rooster frivolously in order that a lot of the extra sauce falls again into the saucepan.
3Rigorously fold the tortilla in half, utilizing a spatula to press the highest down to remain folded. Prepare dinner till the underside is toasted, about 2 minutes.
4Rigorously flip the quesadilla and cook dinner till the second aspect is toasted and the cheese melts, 1 to 2 minutes. Switch the quesadilla to a reducing board and reduce in half. Repeat with remaining quesadillas.
Adam and Joanne’s Suggestions
- Make-ahead and storing: This recipe makes about 5 cups of shredded rooster, sufficient for six quesadillas (perhaps extra). Leftover rooster could be saved in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days or within the freezer for as much as 1 month. Add leftover rooster to rice bowls, tacos, or salad.
- Preserve quesadillas heat: Preserve them heat on a baking sheet in a 200°F (93°C) oven when you end making the remaining quesadillas.
- The vitamin information supplied beneath are estimates.
Diet Per Serving
Serving Measurement
1 quesadilla
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Energy
444
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Complete Fats
19.7g
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Saturated Fats
8.8g
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Ldl cholesterol
127.7mg
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Sodium
1003.7mg
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Carbohydrate
31.9g
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Dietary Fiber
1.7g
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Complete Sugars
3.9g
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Protein
34.6g
