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Avocado Chicken Quesadillas
Avocados are one of my favorite foods. Recently I was very fortunate to find the best source for avocados and they were shipped right to my door. The biggest, best tasting avocados I’ve ever had and at a great price. Being in Wyoming, it’s not easy to get good avocados and I am so happy to have found SoCal Avocados. I found them or I guess they found me on twitter. I ordered avocados for myself and for my parents and they were shipped quickly (shipping was actually free!) and arrived in perfect condition. I didn’t realize it, but avocados ripen after they are picked. It took about five days for my avocados to start ripening. I shared my avocados with my in-laws and my sisters-in-law and everyone has loved them for their buttery flavor. I’ve had several just sprinkled with garlic salt, made guacamole, these quesadillas and one more recipe that I will be sharing soon. SoCal Avocados offer many varieties and I chose the Fuerte, but I can’t wait to try some of the other varieties as they come into season.
As a cattle rancher, I appreciate the opportunity to buy food right from the source and I think it is a growing trend that many people are beginning to support. Knowing where your food actually came from and being able to directly support those who feed us is a great thing! Head on over to SoCal Avocados and get some of these great tasting avocados.
*disclosure: SoCal Avocados generously sent me a few extra avocados with my order for mentioning them here. The opinions are all mine of course!
Recipe:
Avocado Chicken Quesadillas
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 8 flour tortillas, fajita size
- 1 cup Colby-Jack cheese
- 1 cup Pepper-Jack cheese, shredded
- 2 cups cooked chicken, diced
- 1 California avocado, diced sprinkled with 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 2 green onions, diced
Instructions
Heat a griddle or cast iron skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add a little butter to the griddle and melt. Place one tortilla over melted butter, sprinkle with 1/4 cup Colby-Jack and 1/4 cup Pepper-Jack cheeses, 1/2 cup of chicken, 1/4 of the green onions, and 1/4 of the avocado; top with another tortilla. Cook until browned, using a spatula gently flip over and cook until bottom tortilla is browned. Remove to a cutting board and slice with a sharp knife or pizza cutter into 4 wedges. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
Serve with sour cream, salsa, or spicy ranch dressing.
Yield: 4 quesadillas
Enjoy!
Miss
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I love avocados and quesadillas.
YUM! Avacadoes are so amazing, I always get so excited to use them while they ripen.
Wow do these look amazing!!!!! I love avocados too. Any way I can get them!!!!
That is one gorgeous quesadilla, Milisa! I have everything to make this recipe…it may be dinner tonight!
Gorgeous!
We were in SoCal this past weekend (Oxnard area) and we saw all the avocado orchards! It was so beautiful (well, maybe only us agriculture folk find that beautiful…most people go the beach haha). Did you know that most avocado trees are planted in orange groves? So you’ll be driving down the road and you’ll see orange tree-avocado tree-orange tree, avo tree etc. They shoulda thrown in some oranges for ya too!
I got free lemons and they were the best ever! I haven’t been to CA since I was a teenager and I don’t remember the orchards I am sure they are beautiful!
Oooh this looks delicious!
Hey, Found myself by myself for supper.Your email was waiting when I got home, the quesadadilla recipe looks so good. Husband is a meat & potatoes man so I took the oportunity to give this a try. I didn’t have chicken but brought home pork loin chops, they worked fabulous. I am also one of Missy’s lucky friends who recieved some avacadoes. Holy cow were they huge and YUMMY. Such a treat for us rural WY folks. I want to be an avacado rancher! Almost forgot, the choclate crumb cake was scrumptous! Still can’t figure out how it makes the lava stuff on the bottom. Insant cure for the chocolate craving!! Two thumbs up for the SoCal Avacados.
Thanks Terri! Glad you liked them, and I bet the pork was fabulous with the avocado!
Awesome … I just bought avocadoes the other day. I can’t wait!
I really love avocados and am always glad to find new recipes for them. Never knew you could have them delivered right to your door! Thanks for sharing this!
Lana, They are twice the size of the avocados available here, and they ripened beautifully!
This is something I could happily eat every single day for lunch! I’d love for you to share this recipe (and your Garlic Guacamole…and your Grilled Swiss w/Avocado Mash…and…you get the picture) in the avocado link-up/giveaway that I’m hosting with Kristen of Dine & Dish right now. http://bit.ly/NKF4rk
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