Spicy Queso Fish Quesadillas

Here’s a tasty quesadilla filled with flounder fillet, yellow rice and green bell pepper and seasoned to perfection with chili powder.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup uncooked yellow rice
  • 4 Sea Best Flounder Fillets, thawed and coarsely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • ½ cup chopped green bell pepper
  • 4 flour tortillas (10 inches)
  • 2 cups shredded Colby-Jack cheese
  • 1 cup salsa
  • ¼ cup sour cream

Directions

  1. Cook yellow rice according to package directions; set aside.
  2. Season Sea Best Flounder with chili powder and salt.
  3. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add fish; sauté for 5 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
  4. Combine the flounder, green bell pepper and reserved yellow rice.
  5. Place one tortilla in an ungreased large skillet. Sprinkle ¼ cup Colby-Jack cheese on half of the tortilla. Top with a fourth of the flounder mixture; sprinkle with ¼ cup Colby-Jack cheese. Fold plain side of tortilla over the filling.
  6. Cook for 3-4 minutes over medium-high heat or until tortilla is lightly browned; turn carefully. Cook for 2-3 minutes longer or until tortilla is lightly browned and cheese is melted.
  7. Repeat with remaining tortillas.
  8. Serve with salsa and sour cream.

Servings: 4 

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