Mexican mushroom quesadillas

These are tortillas folded in half made of wheat or corn flour, which you can share as a snack.

Origin of the quesadillas

This is a Mexican dish that dates back to the days of the conquerors. At first, the Spanish when encountering corn in Mexico made their corn tortillas and filled them with cheese.

This dish was consumed a lot in Veracruz, who were the first to adopt this dish. Later, his training spread throughout the country.

Over the years this has changed and now there are quesadillas that not only have cheese.

Why is it called a quesadilla?

Its name is attributed to it, since it is a pastry that has cheese. That is why the suffix "dilla" was added, giving it the name of quesadilla.

So we come to the mushroom quesadillas that I intend to show you. It does not take very long to prepare so take note and get to work.

Ingredients

• 1 kilo of mushrooms

• Corn tortillas

• ½ cup of orange juice

• Onion

• 250 grams of cream cheese

• Cilantro

• 3 garlic cloves

• 1 teaspoon oregano

• ½ teaspoon of salt

• 2 chili peppers

• ½ cup vinegar

• Extra virgin olive oil

• 1 tablespoon of cinnamon

• 2 black peppers

• 45 grams of achiote.

How to prepare mushroom quesadillas?

1. The first thing is to wash, chop and place to dehydrate the mushrooms. Place the chili to hydrate.

2. Likewise, wash and chop the onion and cilantro.

3. Then, put all the ingredients in the blender except the mushrooms and tortillas. Blend everything until you get a single cream.

4. In a pan, place a little olive oil and the mushrooms to cook.

5. Next, add the cream you just made and let it cook for at least 8 minutes.

6. On a griddle heat the corn tortilla and assemble the preparation.

7. Assemble the tortillas as if they were tacos and fill with the mushroom mixture.

8. Decorate with a little coriander, a little sauce and lemon to taste.

9. Serve, Enjoy!

Considerations and variants

• Due to their high filling content and how dense corn tortillas tend to be, you may consider preparing 2 or 3 per person. From here you get the accounts for how many people you are going to serve.

• You can substitute corn tortillas for wheat flour tortillas. You can easily buy corn tortillas or, failing that, decide to make at home as well as wheat flour ones.

• Contemplate then the realization of these before starting, since as you can see it is very fast. The longest time it takes is cooking in the pan.

• The meat has been substituted for the mushrooms, but you can well add the animal protein that you like the most.

This recipe can be considered an option for a very delicious vegetarian dish. In addition, it is usually quite efficient and very economical.

So don't wait any longer and go ahead and prepare these wonderful mushroom quesadillas that will turn out to be a very healthy and complete dish.