Quesadillas can made with savory sauces such as chipotle lime sauce, avocado chimichurri, basil ranch, Hawaiian BBQ sauce, or pesto sauce.
You can fill your quesadillas with chicken, black beans, or steak, and drizzle your sauce inside your quesadilla.
Quesadilla sauce fills the inside of the tortilla, along with vegetables and cheese.
You can also use quesadilla sauce for dipping sauce as well, along with guacamole, sour cream, or crema.
Pesto Sauce
Fresh pesto sauce is a creamy, and earthy sauce you can use inside quesadillas.
Pesto goes well with dried cranberries and chicken in quesadillas.
It’s best to make fresh pesto sauce for quesadillas, as it’s packed full of flavor. Pesto bought in a jar doesn’t have nearly as much basil flavoring.
Serve your Chicken pesto quesadilla with a tangy yogurt cilantro lime sauce.
Cilantro lime sauce has a light, refreshing citrus taste to it which goes well with chicken pesto quesadillas.
Avocado Chimichurri
Chimichurri is a red wine vinegar based sauce blended with parsley, oregano, garlic, and olive oil. Chimichurri has a tart flavor with earthy herb tones.
Avocado chimichurri is when the chimichurri sauce is mixed with mashed avocado, giving it a creamier, thick base to the sauce.
Avocado chimichurri can be used inside, and on top of steak quesadillas.
Hawaiian BBQ Sauce
Hawaiian BBQ sauce is a pineapple juice infused BBQ sauce used to marinate chicken to use in a chicken quesadilla.
Chicken quesadilla is made with chicken, grilled pineapples, onions, cheddar cheese, rice, and pickled jalapenos.
Hawaiian BBQ sauce is made by mixing together pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, and cilantro leaves.
Half of the BBQ sauce is used for the chicken. The other half of the Hawaiian BBQ sauce is drizzled on the top of quesadilla to serve.
As well, the quesadillas can be served with an accompanying pineapple and mango guacamole.
Basil Ranch
Basil ranch is a creamy, aromatic sauce for chicken and bacon quesadillas.
You can use Greek yogurt or sour cream for the base of the sauce, along with a bit of mayonnaise.
Buttermilk, fresh basil leaves, cilantro leaves, chives, Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, and cayenne is added to the base of the sauce and are blended together to create a thick quesadilla sauce.
To make the quesadillas, place shredded gouda, arugula, grilled chicken, bacon bits, sun-dried tomatoes, and diced pickles on half of the tortilla in a frying pan on medium heat.
Add a few spoonful’s of basil ranch over the quesadilla, along with some honey mustard sauce.
Add more shredded gouda, and close the tortilla and continue cooking on both sides.
Serve quesadilla with chopped pieces of avocado and more basil ranch for dipping.
Chipotle Lime Sauce
Chipotle lime sauce is a spicy, thin sauce for chicken quesadillas.
Chipotle lime sauce is made by blending together diced jalapeño, chipotle sauce, garlic, lime juice, orange juice, cumin, salt, black pepper, soy sauce, and olive oil.
Chicken is marinated in chipotle lime sauce, and grilled for inside the quesadillas.
To make the chicken quesadillas, place a tortilla in a frying pan on medium heat.
Add shredded Monterey jack cheese and diced chicken to the tortilla.
Drizzle chipotle lime sauce over the tortilla. Fold the tortilla over and continue cooking on each side.
Serve chipotle chicken quesadillas with a side of chipotle lime sauce, sour cream, or guacamole.
BBQ Sauce
BBQ sauce is a sweet sauce you can use in chicken quesadillas.
Chicken quesadillas can be made by spreading a thin layer of BBQ sauce all over the tortilla.
Shredded cheddar cheese and Monterey jack cheese are sprinkled over the BBQ sauce, along with red onions, grilled chicken, and cilantro leaves.
BBQ sauce quesadillas are fried, and then served with a side of BBQ sauce for dipping.
