Description
Sweet and spicy griddle quesadillas made with BBQ chicken, hot honey, and melted cheese inside crispy flour tortillas.
Ingredients
Scale
- Cooking oil of choice
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken thighs or chicken breasts
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- BBQ seasoning blend
- 3 tablespoons BBQ sauce plus more for drizzling
- 2 tablespoons hot honey plus more for drizzling
- 4 large burrito size flour tortillas
- 3 cups shredded cheese of choice
- 1/2 cup chopped cilantro optional
- Sour cream optional
- Sliced jalapenos optional
Instructions
- Preheat griddle to medium heat and add cooking oil.
- Add chicken, kosher salt, pepper, and BBQ seasoning and cook about 6 minutes while mixing occasionally.
- Add BBQ sauce and hot honey and mix well. Cook 2 more minutes until chicken is fully cooked and coated.
- Remove chicken from griddle and scrape surface clean. Lower heat to medium low.
- Add a little more oil and place tortillas flat on the griddle.
- Sprinkle half of the cheese on one side of each tortilla.
- Add cooked chicken mixture and drizzle extra BBQ sauce and hot honey.
- Add cilantro if desired and top with remaining cheese.
- Fold tortillas over filling to create half moon quesadillas.
- Cook each quesadilla about 1 to 2 minutes per side until cheese melts and tortillas become crispy.
- Slice and serve with sour cream and jalapenos if desired.
Notes
- Use freshly shredded cheese for better melting.
- Do not overfill tortillas to make flipping easier.
- Cook tortillas on medium low heat so the cheese melts evenly without burning the tortilla.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Method: Griddle
- Cuisine: American, Mexican
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 quesadilla
- Calories: 724
- Sugar: 12g
- Sodium: 980mg
- Fat: 36g
- Saturated Fat: 16g
- Unsaturated Fat: 18g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 52g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 41g
- Cholesterol: 120mg