Light & Luscious Vegetarian Quesadilla

"This light and flavorful recipe was created for RSC#11. The vegetables with the melted gouda make for a light appetizer or snack. These are wonderful eaten plain or with salsa. Special Note: Make sure you use enough cheese and melt it around the nuts and beans so they don't fall out, toppings let you control how much zip it has :)"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
7
Yields:
6 quesadillas
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Heat olive oil in a medium frying pan. Wilt Baby Spinach in the oil until tender, but so that it still is separate leaves. Set aside to cool for 3 minutes.
  • In a large bowl mix by hand: Pine Nutes, Gouda, shallots, and Black Beans. Add Baby Spinach once cooled.
  • Spoon 3 tablespoons of mixture onto a flour tortilla. Top with another tortilla. Fry tortillas in frying pan for 2 minutes per side or until golden brown.
  • Cut quesadillas into quarters and serve with salsa or guacamole.

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Reviews

  1. 5 stars. This was great, my BF and I both liked this a lot. Nuts and beans fell out of the tortillas, but that was okay they cooked separately and I piled them on top with lots of yummy salsa. I found some low-fat gouda so that was a plus too! Thanks! Made for RSC #11.:D
     
  2. This made us a very nice lunch. I crushed the beans a little and toasted the pine nuts. Would like to add a bit more spice to it next time. Served it with salsa and sour cream.
     
  3. It was hard to find a main dish recipe in RSC#11 that wasn't loaded with fat or sugar, so I was happy to see this recipe entered. Unfortuntely, I didn't like these at all. Nor did DH or my youngest daughter who eats most everything. For me, I found the shallots were overpowering because they were essentially uncooked.
     
  4. This was a good quesadilla. I loved the spinach and black beans together. I did not care for the pine nuts which didn't really suit the quesadilla IMHO. Next time will add jalapenos in their place as it was a little plain. Served with fat free sour cream and salsa.
     
  5. I am giving this a 3 star review. The only thing I changed was to put the shallots in with the spinach while they wilted as I don't like a raw onion taste. This was an easy and quick lunch that I did enjoy. However, I felt it needed a bit of something else to bring 'pop'. Perhaps a bit of seasoning? I am sure you could get that from salsa if you followed the suggestions and served it with it but I think maybe some spices in the cooking might be good too. I will make this again but I will play around with it.
     
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<p>My name is Candy, married in 1993 to Tom. We have two kids (ages 13 and 11) and live in Austin, TX. Most of the cooking is done by Tom these days and he loves to play around and experiment with food. I own a bookkeeping business from a home office and Tom is a teacher so we stay busy and are always on the look out for something fun, fast and healthy.<br /> <br />View my all about me website for links and other information about us - <a href=http://www.candybeauchamp.com>HERE</a>. <br /> <br />We both absolutely love to read! Our kids are turning into little bookworms too :) We are all Kindle addicts and read a lot, my husband and I easily read 200 books per year between the two of us.</p>
 
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