June 27, 2009: Apple Tree Quesadillas

I pulled this recipe out of our Moosewood cookbook terminal Saturday. As I sympathize it, queso way cheese but there's no cheese involved hither at all! Rather, these 'quesadillas' appear to survive named afterward the procedure of filling, folding together with frying tortillas. They're stuffed amongst a sugariness apple-cinnamon mixture, making them an tardily alternative to apple tree pie when you're inwards bespeak of comfort nutrient on a wintery nighttime in.

I forgot to add together the directed maple syrup to the apple tree mixture but didn't immature adult woman it at all. The apples are supposed to survive cooked inwards butter, but I bet margarine would brand a fine vegan alternative. And directly that I've mentioned cheese, I'd dear to attempt swapping out the cinnamon for unopen to abrupt cheddar for a to a greater extent than savoury snack.

Apple quesadillas
(based on a recipe from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics)

3 large apples
1 tablespoons lemon juice
1/1 teaspoon soil cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
2 teaspoons maple syrup (optional)
3 large tortillas
oil spray

Peel together with meat the apples, slicing them into apartment pieces. Place the apple tree slices inwards a large bowl together with toss through the lemon juice together with cinnamon. Don't worry if the cinnamon is well-mixed, it volition survive past times the fourth dimension the apples are cooked!

Melt the butter/margarine inwards a large saucepan or frypan. Arrange the apples across the bottom of the pan together with encompass them, cooking them for 5-10 minutes. Rearrange them occasionally then that they're evenly cooked, removing them from the pan when they're tender but however theatre plenty to concur their shape. Stir through the maple syrup, if you're using it.

Heat a frypan together with lightly spray it amongst oil. Place a tortilla inwards the pan together with gear upwards it on 1 side for a infinitesimal or two, earlier flipping it over. Arrange 1 tertiary of the apples over one-half of the tortilla together with piece of employment out it all to gear upwards for unopen to other minute. Fold over the empty tortilla one-half together with transfer the quesadilla to a plate. Repeat amongst the remaining tortillas together with apple tree mixture.