Baked Quesadillas with Chicken

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Cooking time: 15 minutes
Prep time: About 30 minutes

Makes: 2 servings

    

Ingredients

• 6 oz.    boneless, skinless chicken breast
• 1/2 t.    soy sauce

• 1 T.      mild olive oil
• 3          mushrooms, sliced
• 1/2       yellow onion, chopped

• 1          romano tomato, chopped
• 4 oz.    grated low-fat or non-fat cheese, (mozzarella, cheddar, Swiss)

• 4          8" flour tortillas

    

Directions

1. Thinly slice chicken and marinate 20 minutes in soy sauce.

2. Heat olive oil in skillet. Saute chicken, onions, and mushrooms about 5 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 500 deg. F.

4. Spray one side of each tortilla with PAM cooking spray. Place sprayed side down on a non-stick cookie sheet.

5. Divide chicken mixture and spread over one half of each tortilla, leaving about 1/2" clear along the curved edge.

6. Spread tomatos over chicken mixture and top with cheese. Fold empty halves of tortillas on top of chicken/cheese mixture.

7. Place another cookie sheet on top of quesadillas and bake on lowest rack in oven 8 minutes.

 

Adapted from recipe by Pam Anderson in San Francisco Chronicle May 5, 2002.

 

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