Quesadilla Appetizers $ Food Hack by Ruth Paget
Quesadillas (pronounced kay-sa-dee-yas) are delicious, inexpensive, and healthy depending on what you put in them.
Basically, a quesadilla is a warmed flour tortilla that is folded over to make a half moon shape with warm stuffing inside. You can eat a quesadilla whole as a meal or cut them into thirds to make appetizers.
To make a filled quesadilla, place stuffing on half of the flour tortilla. Then, fold over the part without stuffing on top of the stuffing. Warm in a microwave for 3 minutes. Usually, you only put pre-cooked items in a quesadilla to warm up like steak or chicken.
Three of my favorite stuffings follow:
-cheese with a generous sprinkling of Southwest seasoning on top
-scrambled eggs with melted cheese and salsa
-black beans, melted cheese, and a topping of canned jalapeño peppers (I use canned black beans for the filling.)
-peanut butter and jelly
You can make all of these quesadillas in less than half an hour and a bag of flour tortillas is pretty inexpensive. The real secret of appetizers, though, is that you can mix and match them and turn them into a complete dinner pretty easily.
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
