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Anything-goes quesadilla
Keep a pack of flour tortillas handy with leftover veggies like sweet potato, butternut squash, carrots, etc. Then hunt through the fridge and pull out all those scraps of leftover cheese – the wedge of stilton, the finger of gruyere, the wedge of cheddar, and put the lot together in minutes.
Ingredients
Serves 4
- 500g cooked sweet potato or butternut squash, lightly crushed or chopped
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8 Flour tortillas
Flour tortillas
From the Mexican section in big supermarkets
Keep flour tortillas in the store cupboard as the perfect ‘envelope’ when you have leftover veggies like sweet potato, butternut squash, carrots, etc.
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Ground Black peppercorns
Black peppercorns
Best used as a condiment.
They can be lightly crushed and used to spice up a creamy sauce or to coat fillet steak or chicken breasts.- Although it might seem odd, grinding black pepper over a bowl of strawberries enhances the flavour of the fruit.
- Pepper that is pre-ground is not fresh tasting and often has other ingredients mixed in.
- Choose the type of mill that suits you, and if you want coarser pepper you can loosen the screw on the top of the mill or crush the seeds in a pestle and mortar
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Sea Salt
Salt
Consider tablesalt, sea salt or crystals.
Sea salt’s pronounced and salty flavour means less is required to season food.
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100g creamy blue Cheese
Cheese
Add to eggs for omelettes, grate onto soups or salads.
- Parmesan often goes rock hard or becomes horribly sweaty. Ideally, all cheese should be stored in a cool, airy place at a temperature of 46-50F/8-10C. However, most of us put it straight into the fridge. This is fine providing the cheese is kept loosely wrapped in its own airtight container so it isn’t tainted by other foods.
- Store it in the salad drawer, which is not quite as cold as the rest of the fridge and use a micro plane for grating.
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200g fresh mozzarella Cheese
Cheese
Add to eggs for omelettes, grate onto soups or salads.
- Parmesan often goes rock hard or becomes horribly sweaty. Ideally, all cheese should be stored in a cool, airy place at a temperature of 46-50F/8-10C. However, most of us put it straight into the fridge. This is fine providing the cheese is kept loosely wrapped in its own airtight container so it isn’t tainted by other foods.
- Store it in the salad drawer, which is not quite as cold as the rest of the fridge and use a micro plane for grating.
Instructions
- Place a flour tortilla in a dry nonstick frying pan and lavishly spread with the crushed vegetables, right to the edges.
- Season with salt and pepper and scatter with the cheeses. Top with another flour tortilla and cook over a medium heat until lightly browned, about 3 mins.
- Turn once, and cook the other side until lightly browned and the cheese has melted.
- Transfer to a board, and keep warm, while you make the others. Cut in half or into quarters to serve.
Comments on this recipe
Absolutely delicious, didn't have any creamy blue cheese (don't like it) but used grated cheddar mixed with low fat cream cheese as a substitute. One to have again.
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