Cheese Quesadillas with Maple-Flavored Sautéed Apples
This luscious alternative to a grilled cheese sandwich makes a marvelous brunch entree. If you’re serving a crowd, arrange the finished quesadillas on a cookie sheet and place in a 200-degree oven to keep warm. For a complete brunch menu, I’d add a platter of fried, thickly sliced, maple-cured bacon, and a salad of strawberries and spinach with bottled poppy seed dressing.
Ingrediënten
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 flour tortillas 8 inches each
- 4 slices fontina cheese
- 1 large apple cored, peeled, and sliced into thin wedges, unpeeled
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ cup apple juice
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon grated nutmeg
- 1 ½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice
Instructies
- Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter over medium heat in a large nonstick skillet.
- Place the tortillas on a work surface.
- Arrange one cheese slice on one half of each tortilla.
- Fold the cheese in half if necessary to fit the tortilla half.
- Fold each tortilla in half to form semicircles.
- Ease two tortillas into the skillet in one layer.
- Brown the tortillas over medium heat 3 minutes on each side or until the tortillas are lightly browned and the cheese is melted.
- Remove from the skillet and keep warm.
- Add 1 more tablespoon of the butter and repeat with 2 more folded tortillas and keep warm.
- Add the remaining tablespoon of butter to the skillet.
- Add the apple slices and brown over medium-high heat for 1 minute.
- Add the maple syrup, apple juice, salt, and nutmeg.
- Cook over high heat until the apple slices are tender and the liquid is syrupy, about 2 minutes.
- Stir in the lemon juice.
- To serve, cut each tortilla in half to form 2 quarters.
- Arrange 2 quarters on each of 4 plates and top with apple slices and syrup.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Vary It!
Add a slice of Canadian bacon with the cheese.
Speed It Up! Skip the apples and maple syrup, and instead, warm up a can of apple pie filling to serve over the quesadillas.
Speed It Up! Skip the apples and maple syrup, and instead, warm up a can of apple pie filling to serve over the quesadillas.
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