Easy Chicken and Cheese Oven Baked Quesadillas

Perfect for high protein meal prep, using leftovers, and the minimal home cook, these oven baked quesadillas are a must-add to your recipe box. You only need three ingredients and about 15 minutes of prep time to make a huge batch that can feed your personal army or stock the snack section of your freezer.

While the base recipe makes cheesy chicken quesadillas, I’ve included tons of options for different fillings. You can take this and run with it to make all kinds of baked quesadillas.

Ingredients for Oven Baked Quesadillas

Here’s everything you’ll need:

1. Cooked and Shredded Chicken
2. Shredded Mexican Cheese
3. Corn and Flour Blend Tortillas

Shredded Chicken

Any cooked chicken will work here, though you will want to add some kind of seasoning if you’re using plain rotisserie chicken or unflavored chicken. There are lots of ready-made options in stores these days, but in case you want to make your own, here are some of my favorite shredded chicken recipes:

• One Pot Mexican Pulled Chicken
• Traeger Smoked Chicken Thighs
• Pressure Cooker Shredded Mexican Chicken
• Pulled Instant Pot BBQ Chicken (would be great with onion, parsley, and havarti like our leftover BBQ chicken quesadillas)
• Smoked Chicken and Peppers
• Chicken Birria (or beef birria for birria quesadillas and quesotacos)
• Shredded Buffalo Chicken

These baked quesadillas would also work with slices of grilled chicken breast and other cuts of meats like beef fajitas, reverse seared ribeye steak, or Mexican smoked pork tenderloin.

Tortillas

If you’re unfamiliar with corn and flour blend tortillas, they’re amazing. You get the malleability of flour tortillas with the flavor of corn tortillas. If you can’t find any in stores, we have a recipe for homemade blended tortillas.

You can also use regular corn tortillas, but you will want to wrap them in a damp paper towel and microwave for 45-60 seconds first. Check out my baked tacos or baked taquitos recipes for examples of this in action.

And flour tortillas, like the ones I used for my hidden veggie quesadillas with ground beef, or the Carb Balance tortillas from my bacon ranch ground turkey quesadillas, would both work well here.

How to Freeze and Reheat These Baked Chicken Quesadillas

If you’re going to freeze, I like cutting each quesadilla into three triangles and placing it in an airtight bag before going in the freezer. To reheat, I air fry for about 5 minutes at 350ºF or bake at a similar temperature for 10-12 minutes.

If you want to make these baked quesadillas in an air fryer instead, you’ll need to reduce the amount of quesadillas or cook in batches. You may also need to add something on top to keep the quesadillas sealed. For my air fryer quesadillas recipe, I used a wire rack to keep them sealed during cooking.

More Filling Ideas for Baked Quesadillas

• Cheesy Black Bean Quesadillas
• Chorizo Breakfast Quesadillas
• Veggie Quesadillas
• Chicken Bacon Ranch Quesadillas
• Grilled Chicken, Tomatoes, and Feta

Regardless of what goes inside, I hope you enjoy your oven baked quesadillas! If you need a side dish, check out our summer corn salad or frijoles charros recipes next.

Let me know in the comments if you have an ingredient or recipe question. And we always appreciate recipe reviews if you try something and love it.