Let me start by telling you that I have never in my life liked fresh tomatoes.
So why am I posting a recipe extreeemely heavy on tomatoes, you ask? What was I even doing with tomatoes in my house, you ask?
Well, my lovely sister-in-law supplies me with tomatoes from time to time, and generally I make them into salsa, because homemade salsa is the bees knees. But all that homemade salsa got me thinking.
“Hey”, I was thinking, “maybe I don’t mind tomatoes anymore.” Aah, the inner workings of a beautiful mind ;)
Then I remembered that I love the grilled roma tomatoes in my favourite grilled vegetable platter, and I had roma tomatoes handy because those grilled veggies were on the meal plan, and then those roma tomatoes became this recipe, and now these are on the meal plan for happily ever after because these are rockin’ awesome, super simple, no-flippin’-flipping required, baked quesadillas.
The end.
- 8 large flour tortillas (8-10” in diameter)
- ½ cup softened cream cheese
- 2 cups cooked, chopped chicken
- 4 Roma (plum) tomatoes, chopped in small pieces
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella
- 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
- Position oven racks in top and bottom thirds of oven. Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Place 4 tortillas on two large, ungreased cookie sheets. Spread about 2 tbsp. of cream cheese over each tortilla. Top evenly with chicken, tomatoes, mozzarella and feta cheese. Top with the remaining four tortillas. Bake 5 minutes, then rotate pans and bake another 5 minutes, until cheese is melted and chicken is hot. Set oven to BROIL and place each baking sheet on the top rack for 1 minute to crisp tortillas.
- Slide cooked quesadilla onto large cutting board and cut into wedges (a pizza cutter works great for this).
We loved these!
I shredded the chicken and added spinach to a couple but I love the original with just the tomatoes :)
Just curious – do you think I could make them, freeze them and then reheat them? Or do you think they’d get soggy?
Trying to think of new dinner ideas to bring to new moms :)
Good question – I’m not sure! I think it would definitely be worth trying…I think as long as you bake them from frozen instead of thawing first they would work great, just like a frozen pizza or baked taquitos or something that would get soggy if thawed. They would just need an extra 10 minutes or so baking time…now I want to try it :) Let me know if you try too!
These look yummy! Everything with tomatoes and feta is good :)
I’m sure you’d like these Mom – they’re adapted from your recipe ;)
Absolutely love the sound of these! We eat a lot of quesadillas during the week. These will have to be added to the line up!
I always make my quesadillas on the stovetop but it almost always ends in disaster when it comes to flipping them – I need to try this method instead!