2014 Cooking Club Week 20:Chorizo and potato Quesadillas

emc2

Chorizo and potato Quesadillas

This is a great go to dish in my house, either as a snack or as dinner. They are taste and really family friendly (my 2 year old loves them!). They are super quick dinner especially if you have some left over potatoes and chorizo in the fridge.

What you need (for 2 nicely full Quesadillas):

150g boiled potatoes
100g Chorizo
200g grated cheese
half an onion diced
1 clove of garlic
Some fresh thyme (optional)
2 large Tortillas
a little bit of olive oil



So Add a little Olive oil to the pan and fry the onion for a couple of minute until they are soft. Add in the garlic and fry for a further 3 minutes or so.



Turn up the heat and add the potatoes and Chorizo and cook or about 5 more minutes until the oil from the Chorizo has coloured the potatoes.Mix in the thyme and a little bit of salt and pepper. Take this mix off the heat and leave to one side.



Now get your tortilla and brush with a little bit of oil on the side that will be the outside. Put the Tortilla oil side down on a pan, on one half of the tortilla add some cheese and then the potato mix then more cheese an fold over the tortilla so you now have a half moon filled tortilla in the pan.



Cook on both side for a couple of minutes, take off the pan and cut in quarters and enjoy.....



These can be addapted in a couple of way:
1. Add Chicken
2. A Veggie version adding pepper and paparika instead of the Chorizo

Wurly

Looks great. Thanks for such a lovely recipe. I love chorizo so i'm looking forward to trying this.

p.s. - I like your shoes.:D

Huzzah!

Oh my giddy aunt, this looks fantastic! Looking forward to giving it a whirl.

Roesy

These were lovely, very easy to make too. I can see them becoming a regular in our house. Even the baby enjoyed her little mini, chorizo free version.

RuckingSwimmer

Made this tonight with added chicken! So quick and easy, will definitely be making it again

blueshed

would this work in a george forman instead of a pan, thinking of lunch in work. could bring in all the stuff precooked and heat up in the george.

emc2

blueshed wrote: »

would this work in a george forman instead of a pan, thinking of lunch in work. could bring in all the stuff precooked and heat up in the george.

Yea if you had everything cooked and just wanted to do the final steps a George Forman should work, you are really just reheating the mix, melting the cheese and toasting the tortilla

Had these last night without cheese or tortillas but with a mound of rocket, oh so tasty.

Staph

I do these quite often and purposefully make extra baked potato's for them. I sometimes use the mix as a side dish too -lovely with steak! Thanks for the recipe

parttime

Ah, yes. The comination of chorizo and potato is just wonderful. I put a similair mix in a 7 or 8 egg omelette, kids love it. Another good one is Chicken and chorizo casserole. Basically anything containing chicken and chorizo, or potato and chorizo is gonna taste good.

Toto Wolfcastle

Made these today. It's the perfect food. Carby fatty nommage. I boiled extra potatoes so that I can have them for lunch tomorrow too. Thanks OP.

tailgunner

Made these last night, absolutely delicious. Never thought of combining thyme with chorizo before, but I am converted.

John Mason

missed this recipe first time around.

this is tomorrow nights dinner

SarahBeep!

I am omnomnomming on these as we speak. Yum!!!!!

mocha please!

Wow these look amazing! Can't wait to try them.

tailgunner

Giving this recipe an old bump. Delicious quesadillas - I make them all the time!

Staph

I was thinking of this thread too! Made some for my dinner tonight and the leftovers for lunch tomorrow :pac:

bigronnie9

Good call bumping this thread, had these over the weekend after ye reminded me, so easy and tasty!

Can we get the pictures back?

arian

The photos were in a Dropbox account. Perhaps it filled up. You could try PM-ing the OP and asking nicely for restoration

Bateman

Made this for dinner last night and it was quality, can see it being very handy for when there are a few people coming over on a lazy Saturday morning for brunch