Thursday 18 April 2019

Chicken Quesadilla

Quesadilla is  basically a Mexican dish  to which i gave a little desi touch to suit our taste buds.
 




Ingredients:


  • Tortilla wraps / Rotis
  • Boneless chicken - 500gms (finely chopped or shredded)
  • Ginger and garlic paste - 1 tsp
  • Papkrika powder - 1 tsp
  • Red chili pwdr - 1 tsp
  • Cumin powder - 1 tsp
  • Oregano - 1 tbsp
  • Toamto paste - 1 tsp
  • Tomato ketchup - 2tbsp
  • Onions - finely chopped
  • Capsicum - finely chopped
  • Corn - half a cup
  • Cheddar/ Mozerella cheese
  • Mayonese - optional
  • Salt
  • Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:


  1. In a cooking pot heat oil, add chicken and salt,mix well.Cover and cook this for 5 minutes on medium flame.
  2. Add ginger garlic paste and the powders mentioned above, mix well.
  3. After 5 minutes add oregano, tomato paste and ketchup. Cook this on high flame until the water has almost evaporated.
  4. By now the chicken must be cooked, if not continue cooking until its done.
  5. Lower the flame and add onion, capsicum, corn and cheese , give it a good mix.
  6. Cover the pot and cook on simmer for 2 - 3 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
  7. Heat tawa and just warm up the ready made wraps for a minute.
  8. If you are using rotis , after rolling the rotis just half cook them on the tawa and keep it aside.
  9. Lay the wrap on a flat surface, fill half the wrap/roti with the chicken filling and spread some mayonese on top of it and fold the wrap/roti.
  10. On a hot tawa add butter and place the quesadilla and cook this on medium flame until you see the nice golden color.
  11. while coking the quesadilla press the top with a spatula. Flip it carefully and repeat the same.
Cheesy hot quesadilla's are ready.

You can also toast the tortillas in a sandwich maker.