Chicken quesadillas bursting with flavour
Experience the joys of Mexican street food with our recipe for layered quesadillas stuffed with juicy flavours. Filled with a sweet bell pepper mix and tasty chicken, this dish makes for a superb flavour experience. The delicious filling is stacked between 3 tortillas and held together with shredded mozzarella. Slice the quesadillas into triangles and serve with spicy salsa and fresh cucumber salad on the side. It is a quick and simple dinner option that will undoubtedly delight you and your guests.
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Layered quesadilla with cheese
What are layered quesadillas without their cheese? This wonderful dish is cheesy inside and out. With 2 layers of sweet bell pepper mix, chicken, and shredded mozzarella stacked between 3 tortillas, you are in for a savoury treat. The best thing? The layers make it possible to use a lot of cheese and still get a nice cheesy balance because of the extra tortilla pancake in the middle. Also, once assembled, these beauties are grilled with a bit of mozzarella on top for a well-rounded flavour. The result is gooey, stringy melted cheese combined with a delightful filling that will make your mouth water.
A delicious filling and spicy salsa
All good things come in 3. At least, that is the case for this savoury recipe. The combination of shredded cheese, fried chicken fillet strips and a sweet bell pepper mix made with red onion, garlic, different coloured sweet bell peppers, tomatoes, and seasoning makes for an appetising filling that pairs so wonderfully together. Stacked between grilled tortillas and cut into triangles, these tasty beauties are just waiting to be dipped in spicy salsa to fire up your tastebuds.
Add your own touch
Turn up the heat by adding chilli to the sweet bell pepper mixture or decorate with fresh chilli slices or pickled jalapenos when you serve your homemade quesadilla. It gives the dish a spicy hot flavour with a smoky aroma, creating a delightful contrast to the cheese. It is also delicious to add 1 tablespoon of ground cumin to the chicken. Add after about 2 minutes of cooking time.
How to fold a quesadilla instead of layering
Though we stack and layer the filling for the quesadillas, you can use a neat little trick to fold them instead if you want to shake things up and try something new. Take a tortilla pancake and cut it from the outside edge to the centre. Place the fillings into quarter sections of the tortilla, so you have a quarter section with chicken, a quarter section with shredded mozzarella, and a quarter section with sweet bell pepper mix. Fold each section over the next, working clockwise around the tortilla until you have one small quarter-sized triangle.
You get the same layers as when you layer 3 pancakes but in a nice, ready-to-go single-serve version. Sprinkle with cheese, grill in the oven, and you are good to go.
