Quesadilla batch cooking
I can't cook on the stove anymore for safety reasons. This affects what I can make a great deal. I also need low spoon cooking, which makes it even more limiting.
One of my favorite things to do is to take a container roughly a pound of rotisserie chicken that's already cut up. Put it into a large bowl with:
- a 1-cup package of diced onions from the produce department. I switch up between the white onions and green onions.
- maybe a package of diced peppers from the produce department
- 4 cups of my favorite pre-grated cheese
- a can of chopped olives
- a can of green chilies, drained
If you like things spicier, you can go for jalapeños or whatever. You mix all of this together and put it in an airtight bowl. When you want to eat it, you put a scoop between two tortillas, flatten it down, and cook it either in the microwave or the air fryer and you have quesadillas in just a minute.
I can make this once and then eat from it for several days. If it looks like I'm not going to be eating it fast enough, I can take it and freeze it in single servings that I can then take out of the freezer, let thaw, and then use for a quesadilla.
I also substitute the chicken for steak or pork depending upon what my store has that's already cooked. They also have some steak and chicken strips in the meat department, frozen, that I can use
Another thing I can use this mix for is layering it between corn tortillas with enchilada sauce on it and making kind of a Mexican-style lasagna. A tortilla, a scoop of this, another tortilla, enchilada sauce, another tortilla scoop, and just keep layering it up and make a casserole that heats up really well in the microwave