Black Bean Burger Quesadillas
I know I’ve given you a whole lotta savory this week. Next week we are back to butter-laden sweet treats but to end this week – I am sharing Paul’s specialty, quesadillas. I told you he cooked dinner for me!
I don’t even think about cooking quesadillas in our house because he is truly a master at it. I told you a while back that he used leftover black bean burgers to make a “round 2” meal out of them. He talked about it for a week solid and then (practically) begged me to make them again, just so that he could use the leftovers for a quesadilla. He is more obsessed with these black bean burger quesadillas than he is about the burgers themselves. And, since the burgers are now perfected, so is the black bean burger quesadilla!
We at the burgers for dinner on Sunday night; had the quesadillas on Monday night; and then Paul ate another quesadilla on Wednesday night. As he was licking his plate finishing up, he said “I just really love these.” I really love them too, but maybe not as much as he does. He’s convinced you will love them too.
Black Bean Burger Quesadilla Recipe
Yield: 4 quesadillas
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Round 2 recipe: uses leftover Black Bean Burgers mixed up with sauteed onions, bell pepper and stuffed between tortillas with melty cheese.
Ingredients:
2 tsp. olive oil
1/4 cup white onion, chopped
1/4 cup red pepper, chopped
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/8 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 – 2 tsp. Sriracha
2 leftover Black Bean Burgers
4 tortillas
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, dividedDirections:
Heat the oil in a medium frying pan. Add the onion, bell pepper, cumin, salt and pepper and saute for about 6 minutes, until the onion and pepper are tender. Add the leftover black bean burgers and break them up to resemble ground "meat". Add in the Sriracha sauce, as much as your tastes prefer. Stir to coat and cook until warmed through. Remove from pan.
Build and cook the quesadillas: Lay one tortilla in the pan. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the cheese onto the bottom of the quesadilla. Spread half of the cooked burger mixture over the cheese, and top with another 1/4 cup of the cheese. Top with another tortilla. Cook for 3-4 minutes over medium-low heat until the outside is nicely browned and the cheese begins to melt. Flip and continue to cook until the cheese is completely melted and the tortilla is browned.
Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Cut and serve warm with salsa, Sriracha Mayonnaise, etc.
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What a fabulous dinner idea! Yum!
Most Fridays are Mexican Night in our home… and I’ve never made quesadillas! This sounds great and will be added to the menu!
Quesadillas are definitely one of those things that I could eat every night for weeks on end and not get bored. This is such a great idea for using up leftover bean burgers!
i love a ’round two’ meal + these look wonderful!
I’m a big fan of round two meals, these sound so delicious!
So packed! Love this.
No problem with lots of savory Cassie, especially when they are dishes like this quesadilla. We share a love for Mexican food, so you know I would be all over this!! Love it
Well, I think Paul might be right about me…there’s a chance I might be even more excited about these than the original burgers!!
So glad you perfected these as well! I get a bit overexcited about using up leftovers too!
This is a great idea for using up the extra burgers! We love quesadillas in this house too, especially with black beans!
This is one of my favorite foods – and using a leftover black bean burger is brilliant!
I’m speechless. Actually I’m drooling over how amazing these are! Seriously Cassie, these are fabulous!
Oh my GOSH YES YES YES!!
This is such a great way to use up leftovers!! My husband hates black bean burgers so I tend to make them just for me… I always have a few left over patties!
Yum!! I adore quesadillas, so I’d probably be like Paul and love these even more than the burgers. Happy Friday 🙂
Quesadillas are one of my faaaavourite lunch or dinner choices! Nice work, Paul!
What a great idea to turn leftovers into a new dinner. Love it (& love your husband cooking dinner for you – so sweet)!
Such a great idea! We always use leftovers like this. And by “we” I mean ME. My husband doesn’t go near the kitchen.
Major High-Five to you! I love using leftovers and this is brilliant! Can’t wait to dig in!
Great looking wrap and so awesome he cooks for you 🙂
Isn’t it great when they cook for us? It’s nice to be able to prop your feet up and enjoy a nice meal. Looks like he did a great job!
yum x 10000! I don’t eat much meat, CAssie so I am LOVING the black bean burger recipes this week. I love it when Kevin cooks for me… I feel like a princess. He cooks, I bake… it works out well! Can’t wait for your butter-laden recipes next week 🙂
Gotta love a man who cooks! Eddie (my guy) made breakfast this morning and I was so proud!
I’m trying these burgers next week, you sold me with this left over idea!
Great use of the leftovers! Amazing he let you get a picture of it 🙂
These were MEANT for me. MEANT FOR MEEEE.
Looks wonderful! What a great idea for leftovers!
Pretty sure these have my name on them!!
Now these are my kind of quesadillas! Yum!
I wish I lived with a quesadilla master. Love these!
oh oh, i love that this is a round two recipe. those are the best! you make something once that’s AMAZING and then you get to have it a completely different way the nxt night..love!!
We love Mexican Fridays at home too…We’d have friends come over and everyone bring spicy delicious food. This is perfect!
This sounds awesome Cassie!
What a clever way to use up leftovers! I hate them so I usually try to only make enough for one meal. What’s weird is that I’ve never had quesadaillas. I think I might try making them with chicken. 🙂
I LOVE quesadillas! I bet I would love these, they look SO good!
I love that Paul cooks! My husbands idea of cooking is ordering pizza. This looks delicious 🙂
Cassie….how nice that Paul cooks for you! And I love this recipe, particularly when you can stretch one meal into two…and not just leftovers, but a different recipe! These look scrumptious! Hope you’ve been having a great weekend! : )
On nights my husband chooses to cook it’s always fish ‘n chips from the shop across the canal. He *can* cook but I think the clean-up scares him.
These quesadillas look wonderful!
Go Paul! Every husband should have that knock-out meal =) These quesadillas sound awesome!
So smart! Seriously…so, so smart! I love black bean burgers, but never thought to use the leftovers in quesadillas before. These are fantastic! High five, Paul!
these look mighty good! Such a clever idea (and so sweet!)
You’ve sold me! I think this sounds amazing.
what a brilliant way to use leftovers!
I love it! I have no problem with savory dishes!
I have no issue w/ savory dishes, and this one looks scrumptious!
I love that you used leftover to make quesadillas! I need to check this black bean burger first!
LOVE this! i want it for dinner tonight. guess i need to make black bean burgers first, huh? 🙂
Way to rock the leftovers into another round of tastiness! That’s brilliant Cassie! And seeing as I’ve been on a quesadilla kick as of late – these are so being made.
Yum! What an awesome way to use your leftovers. They looks so good.
Oh I am loving this so much. Quesadillas are so fun!
ahhhh, this looks so dang good!!! Thanks! I will most definitely be making this for a girls night!
I’m a bit confused. Is a serving size of this recipe one half of a quesadilla? Your recipe calls for four tortillas and says it makes four quesadillas. A&m I missing something here?