Mexican quesadilla with chicken and cheese

Mexican tortilla with filling is suitable for a quick and hearty lunch. Very tasty and juicy quesadilla with chicken!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 5 g
Fats 18 % 7 g
Carbohydrates 68 % 26 g
180 kcal
GI: 12 / 0 / 88

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    All the necessary products.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Prepare the dough by mixing all the dry products.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add oil and water.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Finely chop the chicken.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Add spices.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cilantro and garlic.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Mix everything, salt and pepper.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Onion, bell pepper, tomato and eggplant finely cut.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Fry the tortillas in a frying pan.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Fry the onion in another pan,

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Add pepper,

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Eggplant and tomatoes.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Fry the chicken

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    And add stewed vegetables to the chicken.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Add corn and tomato paste.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Spread the cheese and filling on the cake.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    More cheese and close with the second tortilla.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    That's such a yummy!

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19.
  20. Step 20:

    Step 20.

    The main critic (Husband) was satisfied)))

To cook tortillas:

Mix all the dry ingredients, pour in the vegetable.butter, stir.

Gradually adding water, knead the dough.

Leave the dough for 20 minutes.

Divide it into 10-12 pieces, then roll out the tortillas from them.

Fry the tortillas in a well-heated frying pan without oil for 0.5-1 minute on each side.

Preparation of quesadilla with chicken:

Cut chicken fillet into thin pieces, add salt, mix all the spices.

Add chopped garlic and coriander here.

Pour olive oil, mix, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Fry finely chopped onion, tomato, bell pepper, eggplant in a frying pan with oil.

Then fry the marinated chicken fillet.

Combine fillets with vegetables, add corn, tomato paste.

Put cheese plates (thin) on each tortilla. On top - the filling, then - the cheese plates. Cover with a second tortilla and put it in the microwave for 0.5-1 minute.

Cut the quesadilla into 4 portions and serve with sour cream.

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Field corn, raw, dried - 348   kcal/100g
  • Sweet yellow raw field corn - 96   kcal/100g
  • Field corn stewed, boiled, dehydrated (sliced - 83   kcal/100g
  • Field corn boiled on the cob - 91   kcal/100g
  • Germ-free raw fortified corn grits - 362   kcal/100g
  • Corn grits without germ, raw, not fortified - 362   kcal/100g
  • Corn - 119   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "Soviet" - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Dried oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Oregano - 306   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Zira - 112   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289   kcal/100g
  • Coriander greens - 25   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113   kcal/100g

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