Recipe: Perfect Cast iron chicken quesadillas

Cast iron chicken quesadillas. Meat of choice: Leftover chicken, turkey, or browned ground beef or lamb (optional) I use a cast iron skillet for this cast iron quesadillas recipe, thus the name, but any large frying pan will work. Heat a little oil, butter, or leftover bacon grease in the skillet on medium heat. Lay your tortilla in the pan.

Cook, stirring often, until chicken has cooked throughout and browned lightly. Pour in buffalo sauce and add garlic salt to the chicken. Slice up your chicken breasts and build your quesadilla however you'd like. You can have Cast iron chicken quesadillas using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

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We used Mexican blend shredded cheese, our sautéed peppers and onions, and our sliced up chicken breasts and placed it on our tortillas. Place your quesadillas back on your cast iron skillet on your grill to melt the cheese and brown up the tortillas. Cut chicken breasts into small bite size pieces. Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large heavy duty pan.

Cast iron chicken quesadillas instructions

1. Heat olive oil in cast iron pan medium heat and sauté onion, red peppers and garlic.
2. Add in chicken and add chipotle garlic seasoning. Mix well and cook until well combined.
3. Remove chicken mixture and set aside in a bowl..
4. Spread butter on one half of tortilla shell as light as possible..
5. Place butter side down in the cast iron skillet. And place chicken mixture on half of the tortilla..
6. Add cheese on top of chicken and fold.
7. Brown one side while the cheese melts then flip over and brown the other side..
8. Remove from pan and using a pizza cutter dice into 4 pieces. Serve with sour cream and diced tomato’s..

Add the chicken breasts and taco seasoning to the pan. Steps to make Cast iron chicken quesadillas: Heat olive oil in cast iron pan medium heat and sauté onion, red peppers and garlic; Add in chicken and add chipotle garlic seasoning. Mix well and cook until well combined; Remove chicken mixture and set aside in a bowl. Spread butter on one half of tortilla shell as light as possible. Build the quesadillas by laying grated cheese onto the tortilla, and then arranging the chicken, cooked pepper and jalapeno rounds.