For two quesadia you will need:
Ingredients:
- Minced chicken - 300 gr.
- Tortillas (store-bought or homemade wheat tortillas) - 2 pcs.
- Any hard cheese - 150 gr.
- Onion - 1 head
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Bell pepper - 1 pc.
- Red hot pepper - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 6 cloves
- Vegetable oil - 20 ml.
- Greens - parsley, dill, green onions - 2 sprigs each.
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper - to taste
I think that with this recipe for quesadia with minced chicken and tomatoes I will finish the description of this dish in my cookbook, since quesadia, like pizza, exists in many variations, but in essence it all comes down to the same thing... I decided to make this quesadia very spicy, but otherwise, this recipe does not suffer much from originality.
So, let's quickly go over the steps of preparing this sandwich. Peel the onion and cut into small cubes,
Sauté in a small amount of vegetable oil,
Cut tomatoes and bell peppers into small cubes, peeled red hot pepper from seeds into strips,
As soon as the onion begins to bake, add tomatoes and peppers to it.
Stir and fry the vegetables for 3-4 minutes, then add the minced chicken to the frying pan,
Break it apart with a spatula and fry, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes, and while our filling for the quesadia is being prepared, let’s prepare its remaining components,
Using a spitting knife, cloves of garlic,
Then we chop them finely,
Season the quesadia filling thoroughly with freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste,
Then add garlic and chopped herbs to the pan,
mix everything well and cook the filling for another 3 minutes, after which the pan can be removed from the heat,
sprinkle half of the flatbread with grated cheese,
spread half of the quesadia filling on the cheese,
Sprinkle another layer of cheese on top, fold the flatbread in half,
and press the quesadia on top with your hand. Similarly, we form the second kesadiya,
after which the sandwiches can be placed on a baking sheet and sent to an oven preheated to 250 degrees (Celsius), until the flatbreads are golden brown and the cheese is melted (about 5-7 minutes)
Well, as soon as the quesadia is ready, you need to put it on a plate, cut it into pieces, or serve it whole along with sour cream.
Well, this is a close-up photo of the resulting quesadia. Bon appetit everyone and good luck in preparing the above recipe for quesadia with minced chicken and tomatoes.
Recipe Notes
Of course, it would be great to serve salsa with the quesadia. Quesadiya can be fried not in the oven, but in a frying pan.
Description of preparation:
An excellent recipe for simple Mexican dishes - quesadillas with minced meat.
It takes a little time to prepare, but the result is excellent. Quesadilla is an excellent hearty dish that will especially appeal to spicy lovers. The dish uses crispy tartilla, which gives it a special taste. Melted cheese and aromatic spices make the quesadilla appetizing. Watch how to make a quesadilla with minced meat. Purpose: For lunch / For dinner / For an afternoon snack Main ingredient: Meat / Vegetables / Beef / Legumes / Beans / Dairy products / Cheese Dish: Hot dishes Geography of cuisine: Mexican
Quesadilla with chicken or minced meat: step-by-step recipes
Quesadilla with minced chicken and cheese turns out especially tasty. Tender flatbreads and incredibly juicy filling are a real masterpiece worth trying. The recipe is also not complicated. Any housewife can prepare this dish at home by watching our step-by-step photos and videos.
Ingredients:
- minced chicken – 400 gr.;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- 2 onions;
- bell pepper – 1 pc.;
- olives – 20 pcs.;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- tomatoes – 1 pc.;
- ketchup – 3 table. l.;
- hard cheese – 100 g;
And, as always, salt, pepper, herbs, sunflower oil, which are always found in every housewife’s kitchen.
Ingredients for tortillas:
- wheat flour - 3 cups;
- kefir – 1 glass.
Recipe and photo of quesadillas with minced chicken.
1. Prepare the minced meat.
Remove the skin from the chicken thighs and separate them from the bones. We wash the resulting meat and grind it in a meat grinder along with one onion.
2. Stew vegetables with meat.
Chop the onion as finely as possible. Grate the carrots on a medium grater. Cut the bell pepper and tomato into strips, as narrow and small as possible. Finely chop the garlic. Cut the olives in half. Grate hard cheese on a fine grater.
Pour a little oil into a deep frying pan, about two tablespoons. Warm up well. Place the minced meat and cover with a lid. Simmer for 5-7 minutes.
Then add the onion. Place grated carrots, chopped peppers and tomatoes into the minced meat. Cover with a lid and simmer until done for 20 minutes. 5 minutes before cooking, pour in ketchup, add finely chopped garlic and olives. Salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with parsley and hops - suneli. The quesadilla filling is ready.
3. Knead the dough for flatbreads.
The recipe is simple. All you need is flour and kefir (any fat content will do, you can even use low-fat). Mix these ingredients together and knead the dough. Then roll it into a flagellum and cut into small pieces. We got fourteen parts. Roll out all the pieces one by one with a rolling pin. Heat the frying pan. Bake the tortillas on both sides for about 30 seconds.
See also: Chicken fillet rolls with apples and cheese
4. The exciting last stage, when you can’t wait to taste this delicious snack.
Place the prepared filling and a little grated cheese on one half of each baked flatbread. Let's cover it with the other half.
The shape of a quesadilla is similar to a large dumpling. Hold it in a hot frying pan for a few seconds so that the cheese inside melts.
That's all. We only spent one hour on each recipe. If you cooked with us, bon appetit!
I like this snack for three reasons:
- simple recipe;
- available ingredients;
- different tastes depending on the filling;
- low calorie content.
Quesadillas can be prepared with a wide variety of fillings, to which spices are added to taste. See the options in the table below, where the following notations are used:
* st – glass;
* (1) – quantity in pieces.
Choose any filling recipe you like. They are all prepared in the same way (same as described above).
What can you use to make a quesadilla? | Additional Ingredients |
With cheddar cheese (50 g) and chicken (fillet of one bird) | 100 gr. tomato paste and 1 onion |
With veal (100 g) | Bell pepper (1), chili (½), onion (1), garlic (1 clove), tomatoes (50 g), ketchup (20 g) |
With pineapple (2 tbsp) and chicken breasts (3) | Butter (100 g), hard cheese (3 tbsp), spicy barbecue sauce (3 tbsp), cilantro |
With chicken (fillet of three carcasses) and eggplants | Tomatoes (1 kg), onions (1), eggplant (1), olive oil (2 tablespoons), hard cheese (200 g) |
In Greek | Olive oil (30 ml), spinach leaves (15), red onion (1), olives (1 tbsp), mozzarella cheese (1½ tbsp), oregano leaves (15), feta cheese (⅔ tbsp), bell pepper (2) , cherry (16) |
With avocado (1) and cheddar cheese (1 tbsp) | Canned beans (4 tablespoons), arugula (1), olive oil (1 tsp), |
With zucchini (1 tbsp), beans and corn (1 tbsp) | Cilantro (¼ tbsp), chili (1), canned beans (1½), Monterey cheese (2 tbsp), vegetable oil (2 tbsp.) |
Ingredients:
- Beef – 450 grams
- Vegetable oil - 40 Milliliters
- Red beans – 200 grams (canned)
- Tomato puree – 500 grams
- Coriander – 1 teaspoon
- Hard cheese - 200 grams
- Tortilla – 6 pieces
- Onion – 1 piece
- Chili pepper - 2 pieces
- Frozen corn – 150 grams
- Zira – 1 teaspoon
- Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
- Butter - 30 grams
Number of servings: 8
Recipe ingredients:
Quesadilla
- 2 tbsp. seared meatloaf, recipe below
- 400 gr. black beans, drained
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
- 2 tbsp. l. (30 gr.) butter
- 8 tortillas, 20 cm in diameter.
- 2 tbsp. grated cheddar cheese
Meatloaf
- 700 gr. minced beef with the addition of pork (to regulate fat content)
- 1/3 tbsp. breadcrumbs
- 1/3 tbsp. milk
- 1/3 tbsp. chopped parsley
- 1 large egg
- 3 tbsp. l. Worcestershire sauce
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 tsp. ground chili pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, grated or minced
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- 1/2 tbsp. ketchup
- 1-2 tbsp. l. brown sugar
- 1 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar
Spicy sour cream
- 1/2 tbsp. sour cream
- 1/2 tbsp. green cilantro plus more for garnish
- Juice of 1/2 lime
- 2 tsp. hot green chili sauce
How to cook “Quesadilla with minced meat”
1. Wash the beef. Dry and prepare minced meat from it by grinding it in a blender or meat grinder.
2. Peel a couple of onions. Cut and pass the onion through a meat grinder or puree in a blender.
3. Pour vegetable oil into a heated frying pan. Then add minced meat and onions. Fry until the meat changes color and the onion becomes translucent. Add the chili pepper, which you first remove the seeds and finely chop.
4. Place the canned beans in a frying pan with the minced meat, stir and add the frozen corn. Stir again and cook for 3 minutes.
5. Combine the minced meat with tomato puree. Add salt and (to taste) spices: cumin and dried coriander. Cook until the liquid evaporates (about 5 minutes).
6. Grate the cheese. Grease the bottom of the frying pan with oil. Place the tartilla. Sprinkle cheese on top. Place the minced meat and distribute it. Sprinkle the minced meat with cheese. Cover with the second tartilla. Fry the “pie” on both sides until golden brown. Quesadilla is ready.
Quesadilla with minced meat and beans. Recipe for quesadillas with minced meat
Step 1: Prepare vegetables and cheese.
Peel the onion, rinse under running water and place on a cutting board. Using a sharp knife, cut it into small cubes about 5 mm and transfer to a clean plate.
We wash the tomatoes under running water and chop them either into small cubes or into beautiful slices. Place the prepared tomatoes on a separate plate.
Grate the cheese on a grater with large holes.
Place the cucumbers on a cutting board and cut into cubes or thin strips.
Step 2: Prepare the minced meat.
Turn on medium heat on the stove, pour vegetable oil into the frying pan and place on the burner. After it warms up, lay out the minced meat, sprinkle with salt and ground black pepper. Fry the meat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a kitchen spatula.
When most of the meat juice has evaporated, add tomato sauce and mustard to the minced meat. Mix everything again, cook for another 1 - 2 minutes and turn off the heat.
Step 3: Form and fry the dish.
Pour a little vegetable oil into a clean frying pan, place it on the burner and turn on medium heat. While the oil is heating up, place one corn tortilla on a clean plate, visually divide it in half and place the minced meat on one part (calculate so that there is enough minced meat for another 3 tortillas). Arrange tomatoes, onions and cucumbers in a chaotic order.
And sprinkle with the main ingredient - cheese. It is needed to glue corn tortillas together.
Now cover the flatbread with the free part and transfer it to the frying pan. Fry until golden brown on both sides, carefully turning over with a kitchen spatula.
Step 4: Serve the meat quesadilla.
Before serving, the dish is cut in half and placed in a beautiful plate. Casadilla with meat is served hot for a hearty breakfast or as a snack along with hot, aromatic tea or coffee.
Bon appetit!
You can supplement the minced meat with any vegetables, as well as beans or olives.
If you are not a big fan of mustard, adding it to the dish is not necessary.
The dish can be shaped differently: the filling is laid out over the entire area of the flatbread, sprinkled with cheese and covered with a second flatbread, also fried on both sides. And before serving, cut into 4 parts.
One of the most popular Mexican dishes is quesadilla (Spanish quesadilla, literally - cheese tortilla). Tortillas (Mexican flatbreads) are sandwiched with a filling that can consist of vegetables, meat or minced meat, fish, mushrooms and always cheese (Spanish queso). After the filling is placed between the tortillas, they are fried on both sides. Often the filling is placed on only one half of the flatbread, and the other half is used to cover the filling on top - this creates a pocket in the shape of a semicircle. This dish in Mexican cuisine has very similar variations - burritos (Burritos), fajitas (Fajita), enchiladas (Enchiladas), chimichanga (Chimichanga), in them the main components are also tortilla and filling, only the filling is wrapped in a tortilla in each dish. -differently, but in a quesadilla the filling is placed between the tortillas. Quesadillas come with a variety of dipping sauces, most commonly guacamole (avocado and lime juice), salsa (tomato and chile based), creme fraiche (pureed pickled peppers mixed with cream cheese), or or just sour cream. We have already told you how to cook quesadilla with chicken, in this recipe we will share how to cook quesadilla with meat
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We will need (for 4 servings):
Wheat tortillas - 8 pcs.,
. minced meat (pork or beef, or a mixture of pork and beef) - 300 g, . canned sweet corn - 150 g, . onions (large) - 1 pc., . green bell pepper - 1 pc., . red bell pepper - 1 pc., . tomato (ripe) - 1 pc., . cheddar cheese (grated) - 200 g, . garlic - 3-4 cloves, . canned Jalapeño peppers (optional) - to taste, . fresh chili pepper or red pepper (optional) - to taste, . ground cumin - 1 tsp. dried oregano - 1 tsp. ground black pepper - to taste. salt - to taste. olive oil - as needed.
Meat quesadilla is a very simple, but nevertheless tasty and satisfying Tex-Mex dish. Tex-Mex is the conventional name for the cuisine of Mexico and Texas. With a little diligence, the right ingredients, you can have a great Tex-Mex treat on your table. Your family or guests will definitely appreciate your efforts. And a Mexican-style party will be a success without any options!
First, prepare the minced meat. It can be minced beef only, or only pork, or a 50/50 mixture of minced pork and beef (in our stores this mixture is called “homemade minced meat”). I prefer to cook minced meat myself, and, in my opinion, homemade minced meat is best. If you don’t want to bother with minced meat, store-bought minced meat will do just fine. We pass the meat through a meat grinder and set it aside for now. By the way, in Mexico it is considered good form not to grind the minced meat, but to chop the meat into small cubes. |
Now it’s the turn of vegetables - they need to be prepared for heat treatment. Wash tomatoes, sweet peppers and hot peppers. Peel onions and garlic. Cut the onion into small squares, the tomato into squares the size of the onion, pass the garlic through a garlic press. |
Peel the sweet pepper from the stalks and seeds and cut into cubes, much like an onion; also remove the stalk, white partitions and seeds from the chili pod and also finely chop. You don’t have to use chili - not everyone has a tolerance for spicy food, and in Mexico, too, not all food is fiery. And those who like it “hot” can add more chili. |
Heat olive oil in a frying pan, add onion, garlic and bell pepper to the pan and simmer over medium heat, stirring, until the vegetables soften. |
Add minced meat, tomatoes and chili to the pan and continue to fry the contents of the pan, stirring and breaking up lumps of minced meat. Fry until the meat is cooked and has a crispy appearance. |
Add seasonings (freshly ground cumin and oregano) to the pan with the filling, salt and pepper the filling to taste. |
Add canned corn to the pan. |
Stir the contents of the pan and remove it from the heat. The quesadilla filling is ready. |
Prepare a sauce for dipping, it can be ready-made (store-bought) guacamole, salsa, or homemade. For example, a mixture of guacamole and chili. |
Grate the cheese on a coarse grater. |
Divide the grated cheese into 8 parts (according to the number of tortillas). Each pile is then used in half for each quesadilla. Prepare the tortillas (lay them out on the table). Sprinkle one half of the tortilla with half the cheese from one pile of cheese. Repeat the same with all tortillas. |
Place the filling on top of the cheese (on the same half of the tortilla). You can add the filling quite generously, from the heart (taking into account that if there is too much of it, it may spill out during the meal). You can optionally add canned jalapeño peppers on top of the filling. |
Then sprinkle the remaining half of one pile of cheese on top of the filling. |
Cover the filling with the other half of the tortilla. |
Pour a little vegetable oil into a dry, clean frying pan, heat it and place the quesadillas, folded in half, into the frying pan. They need to be fried until golden brown, first on one side, then, carefully turning them over, on the other. The cheese inside the filling will melt and stick the tortilla halves together. By the way, you can add more cheese. It definitely won't get any worse! You can't ruin a quesadilla with cheese! |
Transfer the finished quesadillas to a plate. We cut each into sectors and place the dish on the table. We complement the serving with gravy boats with guacamole or salsa. Dip a triangle of quesadilla into the sauce and enjoy. |
Tell me, do you like Mexican cuisine? Although, who doesn't love her? It is easy to prepare. It widely uses vegetables, meat, grains and legumes. And a huge amount of pepper. However, you can add pepper to your taste.
If you overdo it with pepper, if a fire breaks out in your mouth, then it is useless to extinguish it with water! The most effective way is fermented milk products: sour cream, kefir, milk, yogurt. They are often served as a sauce in Mexican cuisine.
Today I will tell you about beef quesadilla. In general, there are many recipes for quesadillas with both chicken and pork. But today we will talk about the classics of Mexican cuisine. This is a very simple, tasty and quick recipe. Prepares in just 20 minutes. You'll probably like it.
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A very tasty dish of Mexican cuisine - quesadilla with ground beef and vegetables, Mexico sauce and guacamole. Try it! I'm sure you'll like it!
Ingredients
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- 6 tortillas
- 200 g minced beef
- 1-3 onions
- 1 tomato
- 1 g cheddar cheese
- 1 chili pepper
- 1 tsp sugar
- tsp salt
- tbsp wine vinegar
- Half a lemon
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Preparation: 15
- Cooking: 5
- Servings: 2
Preparation
Preparing the filling
- 1.1. Cut the onion into half rings and marinate it in vinegar, adding half a teaspoon of sugar and salt.
1.2. Quickly fry the minced meat in a well-heated frying pan. When it is ready, add salt to taste.
1.3. At the same time, cut the tomato and remove the seeds. Then cut it into small cubes.
1.5. Take cheddar cheese and grate it on a coarse grater. That's it, the filling is ready.
Preparing Mexico City dressing
Assembling and frying the quesadilla
2.1. For the dressing, take 2 tablespoons of olive oil, add the juice of half a lemon, half a spoonful of salt and pepper and finely chop the remaining chili (or less if you don’t like it spicy).
3.1. Take a tortilla, place fried minced meat, tomato, onion, grated cheese on it, pour dressing over it. Cover with another tortilla and quickly fry on both sides in a frying pan without oil.
3.2. As soon as the tortillas are browned, the quesadilla is ready! Remove it and cut it into four pieces. Serve with guacamole and sour cream, salsa and sweet chili.
Notes
*There is another way to prepare quesadillas - put the filling on half of the tortilla, and cover with the other half. This will make it easier to turn it over.
For the filling you can also use sweet peppers, green onions, corn - in general, whatever you want. I often make quesadillas with different fillings; my wife likes the version without chili, but with the addition of cucumber. If you're throwing a Mexican-themed party, you can pre-cut the toppings and invite guests to assemble their own treats.
What other Mexican dishes do you cook? Do you like spicy foods? What stories do you have related to spicy food?
Add vegetable oil and gradually pour in water, kneading a soft, tender dough that does not stick to your hands. Cover the dough with cling film and let rest for 20 minutes.
On a table sprinkled with flour or on a silicone mat, roll out the dough thinly with a rolling pin and cut out an even circle.
Roll out and bake the remaining flatbreads in the same way. Place the finished flatbreads in a pile and cover with a towel. This amount of dough makes 12-13 flatbreads.
Peel the onion and chop finely. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, add onion and fry, stirring, until golden brown.
Then add minced meat. Fry the minced meat with onions over low heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally and breaking up any lumps of meat.
Wash the pepper, remove the stem and seeds and cut into medium-sized cubes. Add the peppers to the minced meat and onions and fry for 15 minutes, stirring.
Then add tomato paste, salt and spices, mix.
Mix well, simmer the filling for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Form a quesadilla by placing a little cheese on the edge of the flatbread.
Sprinkle cheese on top of the filling.
If the filling is not too hot, microwave the quesadilla with the minced meat until the cheese melts. Serve a hot, delicious, filling quesadilla to the table.
Bon appetit!