Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Better-Than-Applebee's Quesadillas

No offense to Applebees.  I LOVE everything on their menu.  Well, almost everything.  Josh's favorite thing to get there is the quesadilla.  I rarely get it because if I chose something else I always have the option to steal part of Josh's quesadilla when he's preoccupied (i.e., looking away or in the bathroom). 

A couple months ago I found one of those copycat recipe websites and they happened to have Applebee's quesadillas featured on it.  It sounded pretty good and we tried it.  It tasted nearly identical but since then we have altered it to our own preferences.  It's not nearly as greasy, the chicken isn't as dry, and the taste doesn't seem so...generic?  Anyway, it's not hard to make and you can probably get away making it under $10.  I can make 8 of them with 4 chicken breast tenderloins.



The how-to's:

Flour tortillas
4 chicken breast tenderloins, cooked and shredded
2 tomatoes, diced
8 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled (cook it in the microwave and blot any extra grease)
1 pkg of shredded pepper jack cheese
1 pkg of shredded cheddar cheese
Tabasco chipotle sauce
Butter

Melt butter in skillet/large pan on medium.  Place tortilla in pan.  Brush a small amount of chipotle sauce on tortilla (I usually just cook the chicken in a good amount of chipotle but it's all personal preference).  On half of tortilla add some chicken, tomato, bacon, and cheese and then fold in half.  Cook both sides until golden and cheese is melted.  Once done you can blot with a papertowel to remove any extra grease and then slice in half or fourths.

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