Quesadillas

Quesadillas are one of my favourite lunchtime meals because they are easy to make and a good way of getting lots of healthy, nutritious ingredients to taste amazing. You can put anything you want in a quesadilla, so this is just an idea to make a healthier, more nutritious version. Loaded with lots of fresh ingredients, 1 tortilla can even serve two if you are really trying to keep your portion size down. But I would eat the whole thing.

Ingredients (makes 1):
Half an avacado, peeled and cubed
3-4 small tomatoes, e.g., cherry tomatoes, cubed
Half a small red chilli, deseeded and finely diced
1 tablespoon fresh coriander, roughly chopped
1 spring (green) onion, roughly chopped
Handful grated reduced fat cheddar cheese
Handful shredded cooked chicken (totally optional - just if you have leftovers)
1 flour tortilla
1 teaspoon oil

Method:
Heat a large frying pan or griddle on a medium to high heat. Add a drop of oil to the pan and using a paper towel brush around the pan to evenly coat. Place your tortilla in the pan and, on one half of the tortilla, spread the cheese in a thin, even layer. Then add the rest of your ingredients, just to half with the cheese. Using a palette knife, take a look at the underside of the tortilla. After a couple of minutes on the heat, it should be browning up nicely. If not, keep cooking it until it starts to brown. Fold the tortilla in half so the empty half covers the half with the toppings. Press down to "seal" the tortilla a little. The ingredients will start to stick together thanks to the melting cheese. It won't be perfectly stable so when you go to flip it over, some ingredients might fall out into the pan, but you can put them back in again. Once flipped, cook on the other side a little more, and then remove from the pan. The cheese should be melted and everything should be nice and warm. Your tortilla will hopefully be crispy. Cut into triangles, squares or whatever you want and then eat.




NB: I had about a teaspoon of refried beans leftover from something else which I also used in this recipe. I couldn't really taste them in the quesadilla so I left them out of the ingredients list, as I don't think it would be worth buying/making refried beans for this unless you specifically want to include them, in which case I would add more to really get the flavour of the refried beans coming through the other, fresher tasting ingredients.