Quesadillas from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Quesadillas Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

1 cup shredded Mexican Chihuahua, Pepper Jack,
Monterey Jack, or brick cheese
1 green onion, minced
1 tbsp chopped canned green chiles - (to 3), or to taste
4 flour tortillas - (8" dia)
Chunky salsa, for topping or dip

Recipe Instructions:

In a medium bowl, toss together the cheese, green onion, and chiles; set aside.

Spray a medium skillet with nonstick cooking spray and place over medium heat. When hot, add 1 tortilla and sprinkle it with one-fourth of the cheese mixture. When the cheese begins to melt, about 1 minute, fold the tortilla in half. Continue cooking until lightly browned and crisp on both sides, about 1 minute. Transfer to a cutting board. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and filling.

Cut quesadilla into 4 wedges with a knife or pizza cutter and serve immediately with the salsa.

This recipe yields 8 servings. Serving size: 2 wedges.

Exchanges Per Serving: 1 Fat, 1 Starch.

Nutrition Facts: Calories 134 Calories from Fat 55 Total Fat 6g; Saturated Fat 3g; Cholesterol 12mg; Sodium 211mg; Carbohydrate 14g; Dietary Fiber 1g; Sugars 1g; Protein 6g.

Comments: This super-simple appetizer is even faster if you have a pancake griddle; simply preheat, spray with nonstick cooking spray, and prepare all the quesadillas at once. Trim the fat even further by replacing the traditional cheeses with a reduced-fat jack cheese spiked with pepper.

Source:
"American Diabetes Association at http://www.diabetes.org"
S(Formatted for MC6):
"09-18-2002 by Joe Comiskey - jcomiskey@krypto.net"
Copyright:
"© American Diabetes Association, 2001"

Servings: 8

"Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of ‘Fannie Farmer’ or ‘The Joy of Cooking’."

~ John Thorne, American food writer

 

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