Healthy Dinner in a snap!

I recently created an easy and healthy dinner for myself that has turned out to be my favorite GO-TO quick meal!

It is simple, quick, healthy, loaded with antioxidants from spinach, and oh so good!

Hope you like spinach.



Judi's Spinach Quesadilla

• 1 1/2 cups fresh baby spinach (you can also use regular spinach, just cut it up a bit) Feel free to add as much as you can fit into the tortilla! I add a different amount each time.
  

• 1-2 cloves of garlic (depending on your love of garlic)

• 1 whole grain flour tortilla (I use spelt due to a wheat allergy. You can also use brown rice tortilla's if you can't tolerate wheat or spelt)

• crumbled Feta Cheese

• sliced, cooked chicken breast and/or * diced Tofu (pick up a pre-cooked roasted chicken from the market. You will be able to create several meals from one chicken!)
  

• Fresh Salsa
  

• Light Sour Cream or * My FAV... Toffutti Sour cream

Finely chop the garlic. Saute the garlic with a tablespoon of Olive Oil. Add the spinach to the pan and saute until it starts to soften. (If you are adding diced Tofu...add it with the spinach). Once the spinach looks wilted it is ready!
*You can always add additional veggies. Think about some of your favorites and decide if they might taste good with this combo. I could imagine adding: red peppers, sliced onions, or maybe thin sliced kale.

Spread the spinach mixture on half of the tortilla. Top with the sliced chicken and a small amount of feta cheese. (If you are allergic to dairy, try a tasty soy or almond cheese!)

Fold the tortilla in half over the spinach/chicken/cheese combo. Place the tortilla in the saute pan, which should already have enough olive oil from the spinach saute to brown the quesadilla...if not, add a small amount.

Brown both sides. Cut the quesadilla in half. Top with salsa and sour cream! Yum!

Serve this with a large bowl of Salad tossed with more of your favorite vegetables. You could add
cucumbers, tomatoes, thin sliced kale, sprouts, carrots.... you get the idea! The more the better.
The best dressing is truly just a little olive oil and fresh lemon juice or balsamic vinegar. Keeps the calorie count down as long as you don't add too much oil.

You will find this to be a quick and healthy meal for yourself or as an easy dish for friends and family!

If you are serving it to a group: set out the Sour Cream, Salsa, and maybe some Cilantro into small cute serving bowls so everyone can add their own toppings...makes it more festive.