Veggie Quesadilla with oven roasted garlic tomato salsa – Mexican Recipe

Hello foodies,

Today I am sharing Mexican dish with you – Veggie Quesadilla with oven roasted garlic tomato salsa. Quesadilla is heated tortillas with melted cheese and veggies inside.
I used corn, onion, black beans and spinach. For garlic tomato salsa, I roast all ingredients in oven for that smoky flavor.
Enjoy this recipe.

Ingredients:

Flour tortillas – 4
Monetary jack and cheddar cheese – 2 cups

For quesadilla stuffing:-

Boiled black beans – 1 cup
Chopped onion – ½ cup
Chopped bell peppers – ½ cup
Boiled corns – ½ cup
Taco seasoning – 1pc (store bought)
Olive oil – 2 tbsp
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
Chopped spinach leaves – 1 cup
Black pepper – ¼ tsp
Butter – 2 tbsp (you can use butter spray)
Salt as per taste

For tomato salsa:-

Tomatoes – 4
Garlic cloves – 5-6
Dried red chilies – 2
Onion – 1
Chopped coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
Olive oil – 2 tbsp+ 1tbsp
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
Black salt – ½ tsp
Black pepper – ¼ tsp

Directions:-For stuffing

1) First we make stuffing for quesadilla. For this heat pan and add olive oil in it. Now add onion in it and mix well. Let the onion cook for 3-4 mins.
2) Add boiled corn and bell peppers in it and again cook it for 3-4 mins.
3) Add salt, black pepper, taco seasoning and lemon juice in it and mix well.
4) Mash boiled black beans with the help of masher.
5) Add boiled black beans and mix well. Let it cook for about 5-6 mins.
6) Switch off the flame and let the stuffing cool down.

Directions: - for tomato salsa

1) Pre heat the oven on 375 degree F.
2) In baking pan add tomatoes, onion, red chilies and garlic clove.
3) Pour olive oil on the top and let it broil for about 15- 20 mins.
4) Let the veggie cool down for 10 mins.
5) Now remove the tomato skin and add all broiled ingredients in the food processor.
6) Add lemon juice, black salt, black pepper powder, olive oil and chopped coriander leaves.
7) Blend it few seconds because we need some chunks of tomatoes and onion.

Directions:- Assembling

1) Heat nonstick pan and apply little butter spray.
2) Place one flour tortilla and cook it from one side for 20 seconds.
3) Again apply the butter spray and cook the tortilla from other side.
4) Repeat the same step with one more tortilla.
5) Now spread cheese on flour tortilla and add filling on it.
6) Spread the filling equally on tortilla and again spread cheese on top of it.
7) Now carefully place another precooked tortilla on top of the cheese.
8) Let it cook from one side until golden brown in color.
9) With the help of spatula carefully turn the tortilla and let it cooked from another side. Apply butter as needed.
10) With the help of pizza cutter cut the quesadilla in pizza slice or triangle shape and serve hot with garlic tomato salsa.
11) This shape is little difficult in making you can also try half-moon shape. That is very easy to make.
12) For half-moon shape just place one tortilla on pan. Apply butter and let it cook from both side. Add cheese on half of the tortilla and then add stuffing on it.
13) Again add some cheese and fold the half of tortilla in half moon shape.
14) Apply butter and cook it from both sides until golden brown in color.

My Notes:-

1) You can use veggies of your choice like zucchini, mushroom etc.
2) You can use your choice of melted cheese.
3) Quesadilla also serve with sour cream and guacamole.

Walnut - Pistachios Baklava: Mediterranean Dessert

Hello Foodies,

Today I am sharing a Mediterranean dessert: Baklava. It is very delicious and mouthwatering dessert. Baklava is made with phyllo sheets filled with nuts and dipped in sugar syrup. Baklava can be made with different filling like almond, pistachios, cashews, walnut etc. I made this dessert with my personal favorite combination walnut and pistachios. Enjoy this yummy dessert.

Yield: 30 -35 pieces

Ingredients:

Phyllo sheets – 1 pc (store bought)

Melted butter – 2 cups

For fillings:

Walnuts – 2 cups

Pistachios – 2 cups

Cinnamon powder – ½ tsp

Cardamom powder – ½ tsp

Salt – a pinch

Granulated sugar – ½ cup

For sugar syrup:

Sugar – 2 ½ cups

Water – 2 cups

Lemon juice – 2tbsp

Cardamom powder – a pinch

Directions:

1) First we make sugar syrup because we need cold sugar syrup which we pour on baklava. In a deep bottom pan add sugar, water and cardamom powder. Once the water start boiling lower the flame. Now add lemon juice. Adding lemon juice in sugar syrup will avoid sugar from its crystallization. We need 2 string sugar syrup for this recipe. Let the sugar syrup boiling for about 8-10 mins. Take a spoon test to know the consistency of syrup.

2) To make the filling we need food processor. Add all the above mentioned ingredients for filling in food processor and blend it in course powder.   Save some filling for garnishing also.
3) Preheat the oven at 350 degree F.

4) Working with phyllo sheet is very difficult because phyllo sheets are very delicate and they dry out very quickly so we need to cover it with damp cloth.

5) We need 9*13 baking pan for making the baklava. Cut the phyllo sheets with the shape of baking pan and cover it with damp cloth. We make 3 layers of 10- 10 phyllo sheets and between every layer we add walnut pistachio filling.

6) Apply melted butter in the bottom of pan and place one phyllo sheet. Carefully spread butter on placed phyllo sheet. We need to apply butter on every phyllo sheet before place another phyllo. Repeat this process with 10 sheets.

7) On the 10th sheets apply butter and evenly spread walnut pistachios filling on it.

8) Again place the 10 phyllo sheets and repeat the same process.

9) On next 10th sheet, again add filling and again place 10 phyllo sheets. Cut it on your desire shape diamond or square.

10) Apply butter on the top phyllo sheet and bake it in oven for about 25- 30 mins or until golden in color.

11) Once top phyllo sheet is golden in color take out the pan from oven and pour the sugar syrup on the hot baklava and let the sugar syrup combine completely in baklava.

12) We need to pour the syrup on hot baklava unless out dessert become soggy.

13) Garnish the top with filling and serve.

14) You can eat the baklava with vanilla ice-cream.