INDIAN STYLE QUESIDILLAS
Home made crispy base with a mexican flavoured filling served with crunchy guacamole
Ingredients
Base
- 2 cups flour (normal chapatti flour)
- Water
- ½ tsp salt
- 3-4 tbsp cooking oil ( for frying)
Filling
- 400 g 400g chicken breast/paneer (cottage cheese)
- (saute in a tbsp of butter and boil if using chicken. Paneer doest need any pre-cooking)
- ¼ cup peppers (mixed colours or any colour, chopped into small cubes)
- ¼ cup sweet corn
- The quantities of above ingredients can be used according to personal preference
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 medium size onion (chopped)
- 3-4 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 2 medium size tomatoes (chopped)
- 2-3 tsp Mexican spice mix
- Salt to taste
- 2 tsp crushed chilli flakes
Topping
- 2 tbsp salsa mix (or any other red hot chilli sauce of your choice)
- Follow the link salsa mix for homemade salsa
- 1 bunch spring onions (chopped)
- ½ cup grated cheddar cheese
- ½ cup grated mozzarella cheese
Instructions
Base
- Combine flour and salt. Prepare the dough using water. Not too loose neither too tight. Just so you are able to roll using some flour.
Filling
- Shred the boiled chicken, If using paneer mash it and keep aside. In a pan heat oil and saute chopped garlic and onion until they change colour. Add chopped tomatoes and fry for few minutes. Once the tomatoes are cooked nicely (should take 3-4 minutes), add shredded chicken/mashed paneer, peppers and sweet corn. Season with the dry spices-salt, chilli flakes and Mexican spice. Mix it all together nicely. Not much cooking is required at this point.
- Divide the dough into portions to roll the base. You will need two portions for each quesadilla. Roll the first one. cook it on a flat pan from both sides and keep aside. Now, roll the second one, when cooked on both sides, spread the salsa mix or whichever sauce you are using, followed by the filling. Top it with both the cheese and spring onions. Quantity of cheese could be varied according to your preference. Finally cover with the set aside base. Use oil and cook from both sides to get a crunchy texture.
- Use link crunchy guacamole for the recipe of the dip shown in the pic or the spicy green chutney.
Video
Notes
- You can also use any left over chicken to prepare the filling.