Quesadillas have to be my favored go-to food for lunch. They’re just so easy to make! Particularly when you have tortillas and cheese in the fridge, which we usually do.
One means to take a quesadilla from snack to a meal is to include some protein, like hen, beef, or in this instance shrimp.
Season raw shrimp in a little lime juice and also chili pepper. Sauté the shrimp and also add it to your jack-cheese quesadilla along with red onion as well as cilantro.
Offer with some cut avocado, sour cream, possibly one more capture of lime juice, and you’re established!
- , if you’re actually in a rush you can utilize currently prepared shrimp.. Just throw it with some salt, chili pepper, and lime juice while you grate the cheese and also heat the tortillas.
- If you are beginning with frozen raw shrimp, placed them in a bowl of ice water to defrost.
- If you are starting with cooked shrimp, just throw them with some salt, pepper, chipotle chile powder and lime juice and let them sit while you warm the tortillas.
Ingredients 1/4 pound of medium-small raw shrimp, peeled off and deveined
- 1/4 teaspoon chipotle powder or chili powder
- Pinch of salt
- Pinch of pepper
- 1 Tbsp of lime or lemon juice
- 2 1/2 tsps olive oil (divided, 2 tsps as well as 1/2 tsp)
- 1 Tbsp sliced red onion
- 1 Tbsp cut fresh cilantro, plus a lot more for garnish
- Salt and also pepper
- 2 medium-sized flour tortillas
- 1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1/4 avocado, cut
- Blob of sour lotion or crema fresca
Method
1 Marinate the shrimp: Toss the shrimp in a tiny bowl with 1/4 tsp of chipotle powder or chile powder, a pinch of salt, pinch of pepper, and also a tbsp of lime or lemon juice. Let sit for 10 mins. Drain out the juice.
2 Cook the shrimp: Heat a pair tsps of olive oil in a fairly stick-free frying pan( an actors iron skillet
works well for this) on medium high heat. Add the shrimp as well as cook for half a minute on each side, as well as remove to a bowl. The shrimp shouldn’t be totally prepared via; they will certainly remain to cook during the following action.
3 Heat the tortillas: Wipe out the frying pan with paper towels. Include a small amount of olive oil (about 1/2 a teaspoon, you can utilize butter also) and warm the frying pan on medium high.
Place one flour tortilla on the frying pan. Flip the tortilla over a few times, 10 seconds between turns. Air pockets must begin to create within the tortilla.
Eliminate the tortilla as well as repeat with the second tortilla. Leave the second tortilla in the frying pan and also reduce the warm to tool.
4 Build the quesadilla: Sprinkle the tortilla with the grated cheese. Disperse the shrimp on top of the cheese. Include cut onion as well as cilantro. Place the other tortilla on the top.
When the lower tortilla is well toasted and also the cheese has started to thaw, turn the quesadilla over. Eliminate the quesadilla from the frying pan when the now bottom tortilla has toasted adequately.
You can additionally utilize just one tortilla rather than 2, as well as fold up the tortilla over itself like an omelette.
5 Cut the quesadilla right into triangles: Cut like a pie into six pieces (a pizza wheel functions well for this). Put on a serving plate. Serve with avocado slices and sour lotion. Garnish with cut fresh cilantro. Squeeze a little lime juice over every little thing.