Quesadillas - What do you put in yours?

[TyneTeas]

I have just had pesto and chicken for lunch

BBQ sauce and chicken is nice too

We also like steak and a few chopped jar chillies

Or just tomato puree and sliced peppers

Looking for inspiration...What else can I try?

I usually just use cheddar, what other cheeses should I try?

Thanks

(Quesadillas are also a great way of making a little bit of filling go a long way -At the risk of sounding 'Mumsnet Chicken', two average size thighs have just split easily between six tortillas made as quesadillas when if they had been done as wraps would probably have needed a thigh for each one)

www.nigella.com/recipes/egg-tortilla-pie

This is good

The other thing you can do is like a lasagne

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/tortilla-lasagne

I'm lazy and do tortilla, salsa, beef mince/black beans and onion fried in taco spices, cheese, repeat and bake in oven, last layer being cheese
Slice it and serve with guacamole and sour cream

stilton and chutney

Minced beef fried with onions, peppers and paprika. Salsa made with tomatoes, chilli, red onion, lime and coriander. Mix of grated mozzarella and cheddar. Spring onions.

It takes a fucking age to prepare the filling but it’s worth it.

Cheese, finely slices spring onion, a little coriander and finely sliced chilli

If they work like toasties, then choc spread and banana would work. Especially if sprinkled with icing sugar at the end.

Quesadillas have cheese to merge any other fillings, obviously, but I'd like to
Introduce quesadillish: with a little chocolate spread, a good turn of the chilli and salt grinder, and mini marshmallows (or normal marshmallows snipped up).
You are welcome 😀

Definitely not a quesadilla, but this is quite nice (far nicer than the picture makes it look) and it is a good way of using up any spare tortillas

Apple and wraps baked with a toffee sauce

www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21597/apple-enchiladas/

(I just stew some apples rather than use a tin of filling though as I almost always have apples and would have to buy a tin specially)

Garlic king prawns with Cajun spice obvs with cheese!

Chicken, cheese, black beans, chilli, coriander

Or left over over chilli

Yep cheese, usually cheddar but will occasionally use up bits of other kind. Sometimes chicken, sometimes ham and I add tinned Mexican style beans, supermarket ones. But mostly cheese, lots.

Thinly sliced raw mushrooms and cheese. If cut thin enough the mushrooms cook quickly on the high heat, such a great flavour.

I'm Mexican-American and although your suggestions are far from traditional, it's fine.
I'm always putting different foodstuffs in a tortilla that I'm fairly certain my Mexican-born father and grandparents would shake their heads at me but I don't mind.

It's all good.

oaxaca cheese is the best cheese for quesadillas, I think mozzarella is the closest to it in UK stores.
Really, white, mild and stringy cheese of any sort I guess would work.

I like a little spicy sauce in the center of the quesadilla.

burritos not Quesadillas. That's what PP describe. Just call them burritos. Not Quesadillas.

California Burritos, Breakfast burritos, Vegan Burritos, chicken asada burritos, etc. The modern Anglo word is "wrap".

woah. That sounds amazing!!

Mushrooms cooked in garlic, then into the wrap with Swiss cheese. When its cooked, dip in mayo.

But the difference is that burritos are rolled up into deep filled parcles whereas the quesadillas are just folded in half and quite flat so a different shape and therefore a different eating experience! I think we all know they're not authentic quesadillas but for the purpose of the thread, I'm delighted to get all these ideas of what to put in them and the 'if it works in a toastie' rule is genius!