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What is your favorite modern-day invention? The telephone, the computer? Hands down, Team Holly’s favorite is rotisserie chicken! In fact, Holly dedicated a whole Rapid Rotisserie Chicken Recipes chapter in KITCHEN 101 cookbook with the goal to help you put a healthy satisfying homemade meal on the table quick and easy. By using rotisserie chicken, the ultimate chicken short cut, Barbecue Chicken Quesadillas will be the perfect quick-dinner solution.
Quick and Easy Dinner Full of Your Favorite Ingredients
You can use rotisserie chicken or on the night you grill chicken, add extra chicken breasts to the pit to turn into tomorrow’s meal for Barbecue Chicken Quesadillas from Holly Clegg’s Too Hot in the Kitchen cookbook. Best of all, this scrumptious quesadilla is easy to throw together. Red onion, garlic and spinach add a delectable sweet crunch and for nutrition bonus add any extra veggies you enjoy. Look for whole wheat tortillas for important fiber, vitamins and minerals.
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Barbecue Chicken Quesadillas
Spruce up leftover chicken into a light, quick evening meal or fun appetizer. Serve with salsa, avocado and/or sour cream.
Servings 2 (1-tortilla) servings
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 cup packed baby spinach
- 1 cup shredded cooked skinless chicken breast
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- 4 flour tortillas 8-inch
- 1/4 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Servings 2 (1-tortilla) servings
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup chopped red onion
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 cup packed baby spinach
- 1 cup shredded cooked skinless chicken breast
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- 4 flour tortillas 8-inch
- 1/4 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
Instructions
In small nonstick skillet coated with nonstick cooking spray, sauté onion and garlic until almost tender, about 5 minutes. Add spinach, stirring until wilted.
In small bowl, combine chicken and barbecue sauce. Lay two tortillas flat and divide evenly with spinach mixture, chicken with sauce, and cheese. Top each with remaining tortilla.
In nonstick skillet coated with nonstick cooking spray, heat skillet and cook tortillas until light brown, several minutes, turn and cook on other side, until light brown and cheese is melted. Cut into fourths and serve.
Nutritional Info
Calories 477 Calories from fat 13% Fat 6g Saturated Fat 2g Cholesterol 69mg Sodium 1052mg Carbohydrate 66g Dietary Fiber 5g Sugars 15g Protein 34g Dietary Exchanges: 3 starch, 1 1/2 other carbohydrate, 3 1/2 very lean meat
Chicken Quesadilla Recipe from Table for Two Chapter
You know what’s great about this cookbook? There’s a chapter called, Table for Two in Too Hot in the Kitchen. This chapter includes all recipes for when you don’t want to cook a large meal for a smaller household! Of course you can always double the recipes in this chapter if you are feeding more.
This is also a Freezer Friendly recipe, so grab a rotisserie chicken from the grocery, make this meal ahead of time, and pull it out when you’re in a time crunch.
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