Name: Oven Baked Chicken Quesadillas Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 16 min
Total time: 31 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Tex-Mex
Ingredients: 400 g / 14 oz chicken , cut into small bite size pieces (thigh, breast or tenderloin); 1 tsp cumin powder; 1 tsp garlic powder (or sub with onion powder); 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (or adjust to taste); 1 tsp paprika powder; 1/2 tsp salt + black pepper; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 small onion , diced (brown, white, yellow); 1 garlic clove , minced; 1 red capsicum / bell pepper , diced; 1 green capsicum / bell pepper , diced; 4 flour tortillas (20cm/8″); Olive oil spray; 1 cups grated cheese, or more to taste (tasty, cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack or other melting cheese of choice) (Note 1)

Baked Chicken Quesadillas made within the oven so you’ll be able to make a number of quesadillas on the identical time! Full of Mexican seasoned chicken and capsicum/bell peppers, loads of gooey cheese and enclosed with crispy golden brown tortilla, that is how one can make quesadillas for a crowd with out standing over the range, making them one after the other. 🙂

Oven Baked Chicken Quesadillas

Final month I went on a mini break with pals and we employed a stunning swanky home proper on the seaside at Sapphire Seashore (Coffs Harbour) on the New South Wales North Coast. And my darling pals, they insisted that I mustn’t do a lot cooking, that I need to loosen up.

Nicely! Isn’t it fortunate that I did get a bit organised with a buying listing and meal plan. As a result of in the complete 4 nights / 5 days we had been there, we solely went out for ONE MEAL. In truth, aside from that temporary 2 hour outing, we solely left the home for a brief 20 minute stroll on the seaside earlier than we declared that the pool and our solar lounges had been beckoning us again (together with the frozen mango daiquiris we had deliberate to begin making the minute the clock ticked over to 12 o’clock).

sapphire-beach-1 — My pals are web shy so that you solely get their arms. Discover their swish arms on the left and proper versus my Child Palms on the backside 😂

There have been solely 4 of us, and but making Quesadillas for lunch was nonetheless a ache. As I stood over the range cooking them one after the other, popping them within the oven and praying they might keep crispy till I completed, I vowed to discover a manner to make an enormous batch in a single go.

So I figured how to make crispy Chicken Quesadillas within the oven. 🙂

It wasn’t as simple as simply wacking stuffed folded tortillas within the oven. I discovered a couple of little methods made fairly a distinction:

Letting the filling cool. As a normal rule for something, it’s takes longer to get a crispy floor within the oven than in a fry pan. So in the event you use scorching filling, the additional steam contained in the quesadilla makes the tortilla too soggy to go crispy (until you manner overcook it to the purpose of very brown);
Spray the tray with oil and pop it within the oven to warmth up. Yup, that actually helps make the underside get crispy as soon as it’s flipped; and
Crank up the oven – however not an excessive amount of, in any other case the sides get too brown earlier than the floor will get crispy throughout.

I stuffed these Baked Chicken Quesadillas with the makings of Chicken Fajitas! Seasoned chicken, onion and capsicum / bell peppers. Plus cheese in fact. Mustn’t neglect the cheese!

There’s no denying that they don’t come out fairly as shatteringly crispy as you may make them on the range by urgent down firmly on the quesadillas whereas they cook dinner. However these are nonetheless crispy – crispy sufficient!

Additionally the opposite factor I noticed is that the tortilla begins to wrinkle after round 20 minutes. Right here they’re after I had been faffing round with the digicam for round half-hour – you’ll be able to see how completely different they appear to when they’re contemporary out of the oven (photograph above).

Small compromises for the sheer comfort of of having the ability to make an enormous batch in a single go!

I hope you discover this Oven Baked Chicken Quesadillas recipe useful! I’ve at all times felt like quesadillas are like pancakes – solely make them in choose circumstances, when there aren’t too any folks to feed.

However now you may make quesadillas for a crowd – even with two trays so you may make 8 on the identical time – or extra if in case you have a big oven! – Johnsat x

Extra issues stuffed between crispy flatbreads!

Issues stuffed inside crispy flatbreads are at all times a very good factor! I’ve executed a couple of over time:

Gozleme – Crispy Turkish olive oil flatbreads filled with spinach and feta
Crispy Ham and Cheese Pockets
Quesadillas
Aloo Paratha
And although not stuffed, this ever widespread Straightforward Tender Flatbreads has to make the listing (use as naan for curries, Greek Gyros, Doner Kebab, Chicken Shawarma – the choices are intensive!)