Shrimp Quesadilla
photo by Lavender Lynn
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
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1
ingredients
- 1⁄4 lb small baby shrimp
- 2 tablespoons lime juice or 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1⁄4 jalapenos or 1/4 serrano chili, finely minced
- 1 tablespoon green onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- 2 medium sized flour tortillas
- 3⁄4 cup monterey jack cheese, shredded
- 1⁄4 avocado, sliced
- dollop sour cream
- salt and pepper
directions
- Place shrimp in a bowl.
- Add lime or lemon juice, chiles, green onion, cilantro.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Let Marinade for 10-30 minutes.
- Strain out the juice.
- Heat a cast iron or stick-free skillet on medium high.
- Add 1/2 tsp of oil amd spread it around the pan.
- Place 1 tortilla on the skillet.
- Flip it over a few times, 10 seconds between flips so that air pockets form.
- Do this with the second tortilla also. Leave the 2nd tortilla in the pan.
- Sprinkle the tortilla with the grated cheese.
- Distribute the shrimp mixture on top of the cheese.
- Place the other tortilla on top.
- Use 2 spatulas(one on top and one on bottom) to flip the quesadilla over when the bottom tortilla is nicely toasted and the cheese has begun to melt.
- Remove the quesadilla from the pan when the now bottom tortilla has toasted sufficiently.
- Cut like a pie into six pieces.
- Serve with avocado slices and sour cream. Garnish with cilantro.
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Reviews
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We really like this recipe , i marinated large raw shrimp in the lime juice, onion, and a tiny bit of jalapeno and serrano peppers, cooked them and then chopped them up . I used a combination of cheddar cheddar and jack cheese and love the cilantro. I thought the avacado was too bland with this preferring tomatillo salsa and sour cream. Made for 2015 Culinary Quest by one of the Toasted Tourists.
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This was very easy to put together. I used already cooked shrimp that I cup into chunks (I didn't have baby shrimp) The lime flavoring was very good. I should have backed off the Cilantro a little as it was very overpowering for our taste. I think the Mexican cheese would have been really good with this as recommended by Yogachef. I served this with your recipe #281851 which went very well with this. Thanks for sharing. Made for PRMR
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Easy and delicicous!!! First the baby shrimp are cooked in lime juice with the jalapeno pepper and cilantro like a ceviche, then the final raw "edge" is taken care of with the cooking of the quesadilla. Sandwiched between the flour tortillas, the shrimp mixture was combined with a Mexican cheese blend of cheddar, queso blanco, and monterey jack. I did not use the avocado, as DD is not a fan. Very subtle flavors combine in a great dish. Made for ZWT5.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Lavender Lynn
United States