Serves: 18
Total Calories: 76

2 pounds chicken breasts or thigh meat, diced, skinned and deboned
1 (19-ounce) can mild red enchilada sauce

TORTILLAS:
2 recipes Fresh Mini Flour Tortillas or 2 recipes Mini Corn Tortillas or 24 8-inch flour tortillas (total 72 small tortillas)
2 1/2 cups Mexican cheese blend, shredded
2 (4-ounce) cans mild diced green chilies
vegetable oil

In a 8-inch or 10-inch Dutch oven over medium high heat, Sauté the chicken in about 1 Tbs. oil until opaque in color. Pour the entire can of enchilada sauce over the chicken and gently stir to coat. Cover and simmer for 45 to 60 minutes until the chicken is tender and easily shreds with a fork. Be patient, this step may take as long as 90 minutes. Add a little water or chicken broth if the mixture gets to dry. The mixture should be thickened and a little saucy but not soupy. If to much sauce is still present, remove the lid and reduce liquid volume by 1/3 to half. Remove from heat.

Using an empty tuna can, with the ends removed, cut 3 circles from each 8-inch flour tortilla or use mini tortillas made from tortilla recipes in this book. Heat a Dutch oven lid or 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Lightly oil the entire lid or bottom of the skillet, then place 4 tortilla rounds on the lid and place 1 Tbs. cheese in the center of each tortilla, then top with1 Tbs. chicken mixture and 1/2 tsp. diced green chile. Top the cheese, chicken, and chile with a second tortilla and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until cheese is lightly melted and tortilla is crispy and lightly browned. Flip over each quesadilla and cook on second side an additional 1 to 2 minutes. Continue cooking all quesadillas until all the tortillas and, or chicken and cheese is used up.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 18
Total Calories: 76
Calories from Fat: 8

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