Farmer’s Market Vegetarian Quesadilla

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Farmer’s Market Vegetarian quesadilla is an easy peasy, quick 10-minute lunch idea recipe using fresh and organic local vegetables from the farmer’s market. It uses the fresh colorful stalks and greens of the swiss chard along with some colorful peppers or capsicum.  Loaded with cheddar cheese, these quesadillas are a complete healthy meal.

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What is Quesadillas

Quesadilla is a Mexican dish. It consists of a tortilla that is primarily filled with cheese, meats, beans, and spices. For Vegetarians, meats are replaced by vegetables. These tortillas are then cooked on a griddle. Served with guacamole, tomato salsa, chopped onion, etc.

Varitionas of Quesadillas

Traditionally the tortillas are made of corn or masa harina. I have made an attempt to make corn tortilla here. Wheat flour tortillas and now multi flour tortillas are also very common. As every recipe has its variation, even dessert quesadillas are made. Stuffed with chocolate, caramel, and fruits. Breakfast quesadillas are made using eggs, cheese, and bacon.

How is the tortilla cooked?

The whole tortilla is cooked on a griddle, fillings are added and then another tortilla is topped on it. Another way is to fill it only half and fold it. I prefer the second method as it helps to flip and cook it on both sides. 

I love to make Vegetarian Quesadilla as this is loaded with vegetables and is a quick and easy recipe. So when Priya who blogs at “The World through my eyes” asked me what I would love to cook for the Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge, I was like either Quesadilla or nachos. And she then gave me 2 secret ingredients cheese and peppers and I cooked this Farmer’s Market Vegetarian quesadilla. I gave her salt and garlic and she cooked these yummy Veggie Loaded Burrito.

This week Narmada from “Nams Corner” asked us to cook something from the Mexican cuisine. We all were so excited to cook from one of these famous cuisine. Before I hop on to instructions on how I made the Vegetarian Quesadilla, do check out her quick and easy Sweet Corn Salad Recipe.

Recipe Process I followed for this Vegetarian Quesadilla

I am not saying my Quesadilla is a typical Mexican recipe, but yes adapted from it. It might differ. Being a vegetarian I love to include different vegetables in my Quesadillas. In today’s recipe, I have used the fresh veggies which I got from the farmers’ market and some fresh from my garden. So whatever I have in my fridge. 

Today I had some colorful Swiss chard and peppers and I decided to add this both, along with some sweet corn kernels. For the spice, I used my garden fresh Romanian Chilly which had a slight kick. I saute the vegetables in a bit of onion, chilly along with smoked red paprika. This allowed the chard stalks to soften a bit while still maintaining the crunch. 

I then slightly cooked the tortillas on a griddle. Then added the vegetables on half of the side. Folded and let it cook on both the side until the cheese melted. That’s it the whole process of cooking the tortilla will take around 3-4 minutes. The cooking of the veggies will take around 10 minutes max. So you have one healthy lunch in less than 30 minutes, including the chopping and cleaning of veggies.

I have used store-bought whole wheat tortillas here, and this is something one can keep handy. It becomes easy when you want to cook something really quick or want something different yet filling and healthy.

This can even be made with our Indian roti or chapati. Using left over roti is a good idea. And the fact that when we were kids, our parents use to do this. All we never knew this was a Mexican cuisine. All in all we use to enjoy it thoroughly.

Few such Easy vegetable stuffing Ideas I like are below:

So here goes the recipe of Farmer’s Market Vegetarian Quesadilla

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