Chorizo and spud quesadillas
Quesadillas are good at any time of the day, but particularly in front of a movie or a big match.
Quesadillas [kay-sa-dee-yas], stuffed with melted cheese and anything else you fancy, are good at any time of the day, but particularly in front of a movie or a big match. Hand some tortillas around and let everyone fill their own.
Enough for 2 large quesadillas
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Ingredients
175g boiled potatoes
¼ onion, finely chopped
½ clove of garlic, chopped
100g chorizo cooking sausage, chopped
a small bunch of thyme, chopped
sea salt and black pepper
2 large flour or corn tortillas
200g cheese, grated
olive oil
Method
- Dice the potatoes into 1cm chunks. Cook the onion until soft, add the garlic, and cook for a further 3 minutes. Mix in the chorizo and potato, turn up the heat, and fry for another 5 minutes. Mix in the thyme and season. Assemble all the rest of the quesadilla ingredients.
- Spread a quarter of the chorizo mixture on one half of a tortilla and sprinkle with a fistful of cheese. I find that a mix of extra mature English Cheddar and a little grated mozzarella makes the perfect cheese mix, with a good flavour and the right gooeyness.
- Fold the tortilla over so that you have a half moon. Brush it with a little olive oil (so the tortilla doesn’t stick to the pan) and place in a hot, dry frying pan or griddle, and cook until golden and crisp. Repeat with the remaining tortillas.
- Cut into wedges and serve with your favourite table salsa.
Recipes from Mexican Food Made Simple by Thomasina Miers © Thomasina Miers 2010, published by Hodder & Stoughton
Photographer Claire Wilks © Blink Films 2011
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10 months ago
cindylee jones
brilliant! tasty!
10 months ago
Donny
Made this for tea with the guacamole and roast tomato salsa. Made some tortilla chips aswell by baking chopped up tortillas then seasoning. Propper lush!
10 months ago
Lynne
Made this for supper last night, added some finely chopped red chilli to the mixture. Seriously good, made tomato and avocado salsa to go with.
10 months ago
bev
bev going to try this tomorrow.
10 months ago
Karen
We call these 'Taco Dorado', worth pure gold! (although we never had the luxury of meat :) Finally, real Mexican. Gracias!
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10 months ago
Cathy Boyd
On one of the episodes we saw you make a pineapple and rum pudding.We can.t find it on the web site.
10 months ago
Jo Anne
I watched your show on Saturday morning, and bought the bits for this with my shopping on the afternoon. It was really easy to make, and surprisingly looked just like the one made on the TV. Thanks Thomasina, it tasted great and will be a firm favourite in our houseld I think.
10 months ago
Trevor
done this recipe tasts great had to use bought fajitas does Thomasina have the recipe for fajitas,because in the program she uses home made ones.
9 months ago
Gemma Findlay
I'm a but confused, if at no 2 you only use 1/4 of the chorizo mixture on 1/2 of a tortilla , then you'd only use 1/2 of the whole mixture if you're only making 2 . Is it a typo, of am I missing something - bit confusing , gonna try it anyway
22 days ago
Jamie Stirling
Just watched it on telly and i thought to myself i need to try this have to wait till tommorow to get ingredients tho hate when that happens lol