Avocado Quesadillas
photo by mommyluvs2cook
- Ready In:
- 26mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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16 wedges
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
- 2 tomatoes, seeded and diced
- 1 avocado, diced
- 1 tablespoon red onion, chopped
- 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1⁄4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce or 1/4 teaspoon hot sauce
- 1⁄4 cup sour cream
- 3 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
- 4 flour tortillas
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 1⁄3 cups monterey jack cheese, coarsely grated
directions
- Preheat broiler.
- Stir together tomatoes, avocado, onion, lemon juice and Tabasco, and season with salt and pepper.
- In another bowl, stir together sour cream, coriander, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Put tortillas on a large baking sheet and brush tops with oil.
- Broil tortillas on a rack set 2 to 4 inches from heat until pale golden. Turn tortillas and broil until other sides are pale golden.
- Sprinkle tortillas evenly with cheese and broil until melted and bubbling.
- Spread avocado mixture evenly over 2 tortillas and top each with one of remaining tortillas, cheese side down, to make 2 quesadillas.
- Transfer to a cutting board and cut each into 8 wedges.
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Reviews
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This is a great quesadilla for sure! I loved that it was done in the broiler. Quick and easy. Used corn tortillas which I didn't even bother cutting into triangles because they were so small. Also I don't ever have sour cream on hand so I just omitted that and stirred the cilantro into the avocado mixture. Fresh and delicious!
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Wow! I loved this Quesadilla! Very easy to throw together for a delish snack or a light lunch. I followed this exactly, and loved all the ingredients. I used my little toaster oven to heat up the tortillas instead of the huge oven. The fresh cilantro adds such a great taste here and I thank you for posting this wonderful recipe! Made for *PAC* Spring 2009
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