spicy turkey quesadilla

A quesadilla is one of my favourite ways to use up leftovers or any bits lying around the fridge. You need two flour tortilla’s, some cheese, and a few pickles, some meat (if you are that way inclined) and salad things. For this recipe I made a spicy sauce as the turkey when cold, could be a bit dry.

This is enough sauce for one large quesadilla, so just adjust to your own requirements and taste accordingly. Add more spice or less, whatever blows your hair back. It’s a fantastic way to use up leftover Christmas turkey, and is the first recipe in my series for using up your leftover this Christmas.

Delicious served with home made lemonade, an ice cold beer or a margarita.

Ingredients

For the sauce
2 T creme fraiche
1 T cream cheese
a few drops of hots sauce like chipotle Tabasco or Cholula chipoltle
1 pickled jalapeño finely chopped
For the rest of the quessadilla
sliced turkey meat enough to thinly cover the tortilla
finely sliced red onion
sliced tomato
handful of cheese such as Cheddar mozzarella
fresh lime wedges and coriander to serve

Instructions

Mix all the sauce ingredients until well combined. It should be fairly spicy.
Spread the sauce over the base of a flour tortilla, lay the sliced turkey on top of that, then the tomato, red onion and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Place another tortilla on top of all of this and carefully move to a large non-stick pan.
Dry fry this until it starts toasting. Flip (you can use a plate to flip if it makes it easier) and cook the other side. I also put a lid on my frying pan which helps heat the quessadilla through.
Slice into 4 wedges, serve with a lime wedges and fresh coriander.

8 Comments

Oh my goodness! This looks absolutely amazing! I tend to use red onion in everything – not only is it delicious but it looks so pretty.
I’m changing my week’s menu right this moment. Thanks! 🙂