This chicken quesadilla recipe is one of my favorites.

It's a great way to use up leftover chicken and one of my favorite easy dinner recipes.

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cook time: 5 minutes

Ingredients:
2 onions, sliced
1 teaspoon oil
2 chicken breasts, cooked and sliced or 2 cups leftover chicken
2 cups shredded cheddar or monteray jack cheese
6 flour tortillas (10 inches)
1/2 cup tomato, chopped
2 tablespoons canned or fresh green chilies, chopped (optional)
2 avocados, sliced
1 sweet red pepper, sliced into thin strips

Garnishes:
1/4 cup chopped green onions
chopped fresh cilantro or parsley
sour cream
salsa
your favorite hot sauce
guacamole

Directions:
Add the oil to a frying pan and heat to medium. Fry the onions until they are soft. Remove them and set aside. If the chicken needs to be cooked, slice it thinly and fry until cooked through.

Heat the oven to 350ºF.

Lay each tortilla shell flat. Sprinkle 1/3 cup of the cheese over half of each tortilla, making sure the filling is all to one side of the tortilla. Top the cheese with 1/6 of the chicken, onions, peppers, chilies and chopped tomatoes. Fold the tortilla over the filling.

Place the tortillas on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 5 minutes or just until the cheese is melted.

Serve whole or cut each quesadilla into wedges or strips, beginning the cuts from the center of the folded side.

Makes 6 servings.

Top with any or all of sour cream, guacamole, salsa, chopped green onions and fresh cilantro.

• For lighter quesadillas use reduced fat cheese and tortillas.
• Try low carb tortillas if you are following a low carb diet.
• Replace the chicken with thin strips of cooked steak to make this a beef quesadilla recipe.
• Keep it vegetarian by leaving out the chicken.
• Chilies are optional. You determine the heat by the amount, if any, of chilies you use. You can also add some hot sauce in the quesadilla if you want.
• Use whatever color of pepper you prefer. I like the taste and color of the red peppers, but green, orange, purple or yellow work well too. If you really like it hot switch it out and use hot peppers.