This shrimp quesadilla brings heat

Crunchy, Spicy, Ringard and half of the calories of a restaurant version? You can get this winning combination at home.


The key to a world class quesadilla pronounced a sharpness from outside the tortilla.Restaurants Do you compose to their sloppy cooking by adding more cheese and oil to the equation, that's why we have never, in years of nutritional information analysis, has found a Questilla restaurant with less than 900 calories and 50 fat of grease. This quesadilla is a lot of cheese, but the abundance of spicy shrimps and caramelized vegetables teaming with the broken crust of tortilla means that we can cut fat without sacrificing the flavor in this recipe.

Nutrition:340 calories, 15 g of grease (8 g saturated), 750 mg of sodium

Serve 4

You will need

Average shrimp of 8 oz, peeled and evacuated
1/2 cup of orange juice
1 tablespoon of canned chipotle pepper
2 clove garlic, minced
1/2 c. Canola oil soup
1 medium onion, sliced
1 red or yellow pepper, sliced
Black salt and pepper
4 large whole wheat tortillas
2 cups cheese Râton Monterey Jack
salsa
Guacamole

How to do it

  1. Combine shrimp with orange juice, chipotle pepper and garlic. Mariner for 15 minutes.
  2. Heat the oil in a bigcast iron or skipped pan on high average heat.
  3. When the oil is slightly smoking, add the onion and pepper and cook about 10 minutes, until slightly carbonized outside.
  4. Push the vegetables at the perimeter of the pan and add the shrimp to the center.
  5. Sautéed until cooking, about 10 minutes.
  6. Season with salt and pepper according to your taste. Remove from heat.
  7. Coasting an unremanned saucepan with cooking spray, oil or butter and heating over medium-low heat. Place a tortilla in the bottom, sprinkle with half of the cheese, then high with half of the shrimp mixture and a second tortilla.
  8. Bake for about 5 minutes, until the bottom is very crisp, then go back and cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
  9. Cut the quesadillas into quarters and serve with salsa and a little guacamole, if you wish.

Eat

You want a crispy quesadilla? The cooking of the quesadillas, one side at a time, in a cast iron or non-stick pan is the best, but in no case is it the only method. Have a jackpot? Turn on the grill and place them directly on the oiled grids for a few minutes off, or do it on a 450 ° F oven for 12 minutes, returning them once halfway.

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