Craving Mexican food? I am! The Costco freezer section has a few frozen Mexican products like these Catarina Chicken Quesadillas. These quesadillas are conveniently ready to eat in just 15 minutes. Find out below if these Costco quesadillas satisfy my craving for Mexican!
There are a few Mexican-style foods in the Costco freezer section and I’ve tried a few. These Costco Catarina Chicken Quesadillas have been at my Costco for the last six months at least and I had yet to try them so I picked them up to review.
Other Mexican-style food items I’ve reviewed from Costco are the Costco Rojo’s Street Corn Dip, Costco Rojo’s Black Bean Six Layer Dip, Costco El Monterey Quesadillas With Charbroiled Chicken Breast & Cheese, Costco El Monterey Egg, Sausage, Cheese and Potato Breakfast Wraps, Costco El Monterey Chicken & Cheese Taquitos and the Costco El Monterey Signature Chimichangas.
Location in Store
You can find the quesadillas in the freezer section at Costco, near the other frozen entrees and appetizers. The item number is 2266814.
Taste
I like these quesadillas as an appetizer or quick dinner/lunch. They’re very flavorful, the main flavor I notice is cheese mixed with a bit of tomato and spices. Although these are chicken quesadillas there honestly isn’t too much chicken in each quesadilla. Give me more chicken, please! They are very cheesy though and the cheese is kind of creamy, almost like a cheese combined with sour cream.
The tortilla became slightly crispy after being baked in the oven, I bet they’d get really nice and crispy in the air fryer. The tortilla really doesn’t have much flavor but it tastes fine. I think if it had a lot of flavors it would take away from the quesadilla filling.
I served my quesadillas with sour cream and salsa because that’s what I had in the house but I think they’d also taste amazing with fresh guacamole. These Costco quesadillas aren’t nearly as good as homemade or restaurant-quality quesadillas, they’re okay, nothing special.
Cost
The box with 12 100-gram quesadillas costs $15.99 Canadian at Costco. This isn’t cheap, the quesadillas are pretty small in my opinion and don’t have as much chicken as I’d like.
Convenience
The cooking instructions for the quesadillas have a microwave method as well as a conventional oven method. I used the oven method and would not recommend the microwave method if you want your quesadillas to be at all crispy. Even in the oven, they weren’t exactly as crispy as I’d have liked them to be.
As I previously said, if you have an air fryer I would use it to cook these. The quesadillas need to be kept frozen and the best before date is 11 months from the date we purchased the quesadillas.
I think these make a great appetizer, snack, lunch or light dinner. It would take about three of these to really fill me up, so that’s why I say a light dinner. I love quesadillas with salsa and sour cream on the side as a dip so I would serve them like that. I also think kids would absolutely love these for lunch or after-school snack!
Nutrition
Calories
One quesadilla has 210 calories, six grams of fat, 26 grams of carbohydrates, two grams of fibre, zero grams of sugar, 14 grams of protein and 350 milligrams of sodium. There isn’t a ton of fat or calories if you eat just one quesadilla but as I said previously, I could eat three in one sitting, which still isn’t absolutely horrendous if it were my whole dinner. I like that there are 14 grams of protein in each quesadilla.
Ingredients
A homemade quesadilla would have much fewer ingredients and wouldn’t have any unnecessary ones like added sugar! These are not gluten-free or dairy-free, obviously. I can’t say I love the long ingredients list with things I can barely pronounce and I’m not even sure what they are or what they do. The quesadillas may contain sesame, rye, oat triticale and eggs.
Scoring
Taste: 7/10
Cost: 6/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 4/10
Overall
Give it a try!
They’re quick and convenient but if you’re a true quesadilla conniseur you’ll be disappointed. Kids I’m sure will enjoy these!
Have you tried these quesadillas? What are your thoughts on them?
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Was about to purchase these for the first time and after all your posts I am not going to waste the money. Appreciate all your honest posts helped me save a goos chunk of money.
Holy. F-balls. Talk about trash. I wouldn’t feed a POW this nastiness. It’s truly, truly disgusting.
How they get away with the blatant false advertising is beyond me, the picture they display on the box is NOTHING AT ALL like what you receive.
ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING!
These honestly deserve no more than a 1/10! Worst we’ve ever had. I hate throwing away food but we ended up having to throw away 3/4 of the box because they were truly inedible
These are terrible, no taste. Only 130 sec in microwave. Was cold 1 min later eating it. Still no comparison to el moneray quesadillas. Dam I miss those.
the worst weve ever had, so dissapointed. NEVER again. I;m surprised Costco even put these on the shelves.
My family really liked El Monterey brand of quesadillas from Costco, we has them at least twice a month. When I saw El Monterey were no longer available, I tried Caterina and they were terrible! I returned them to Costco and the clerk said she had a few returned – no surprise. I didn’t find one chunk of chicken, it was a ground together paste and didn’t taste good.
I’ve just done a freezer clear out and found a box of these. Asked my teenager why he didn’t eat them – he said the filling was “like slimy dog food”. I thought he was exaggerating so I cooked one and nope, he’s right. So bad. I’d have taken them back to Costco but it’s not worth my time. Never again, Caterina, so bad.
I detest these tacos and the quesadillas.
Not sure if it’s a supply chain issue as to why they don’t carry the El Monterey Quesadillas which were a regular staple. After seeing they weren’t in stock we tried these but these are horrible. It’s Costco, so returned both.
I was getting the El Monterey brand of quesadillas from Costco for a while. They were quite decent and enjoyable and I’d buy taco sauce to squirt atop them for added taste and convenience. Then finally I went to Costco again and El Monterey was no longer there. They only had this new brand so I decided I’d try this brand. Soggy out of the microwave unlike El Monterey and overall soggy and greasy to boot. Months have passed and still no El Monterey and only these which I’d never buy again.
I was so disappointed with these. They tasted similar to frozen burritos.
These quesadillas are probably the worst we have ever had. The contents are nothing like the picture on the box shows. It consists of ground-up chicken in a pasty sauce. There was maybe two recognizable chicken chunks in three quesadillas. Would not buy again.