
How To Make Vegetarian Quesadillas
Sink your teeth into these loaded vegetarian quesadillas, packed with plant-based chicken, refried beans, and gooey cheeses, for a hearty meal!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1pkgMorningstar Farms® Meal Starters™ Chik’n Strips
- 1tbspolive oil,or vegetable oil
- 4flour tortillas
- ½cuprefried beans,optional
- ½cupmonterey jack,or cheddar cheese, shredded
- ¼cupbell peppers,red and/or yellow, finely chopped
- 1tbsphot pepper sauce,or chipotle pepper sauce
- salsa,or sour cream
- ground cumin,optional
Instructions
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In nonstick frypan cook chik’n strips in 2 teaspoons of hot oil over medium-high heat for 1 to 3 minutes or until hot, stirring frequently. Remove from frypan. Wipe frypan with paper towel.
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Lightly brush same frypan with some of remaining oil.
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Spread refried beans on half of each tortilla. Place one tortilla, bean side up, in the pan. Top beans with one-fourth of chik’n strips, 2 tablespoons of cheese and 1 tablespoon of peppers.
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Sprinkle with ¾ teaspoon of pepper sauce. Fold tortilla over filling.
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Cook over medium heat for 1 to 3 minutes or until light brown, turning once. Repeat with remaining tortillas, chik’n strips, cheese, peppers, and pepper sauce, brushing frypan with oil as necessary.
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Cut each quesadilla in half.
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Serve with salsa or fat-free sour cream, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 267.84kcal
- Fat: 12.78g
- Saturated Fat: 4.41g
- Trans Fat: 0.01g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.98g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.74g
- Carbohydrates: 29.01g
- Fiber: 2.51g
- Sugar: 1.99g
- Protein: 9.60g
- Cholesterol: 14.69mg
- Sodium: 666.65mg
- Calcium: 214.73mg
- Potassium: 202.38mg
- Iron: 2.41mg
- Vitamin A: 47.72µg
- Vitamin C: 16.33mg
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