scransync Plan your week
Cheeseburger quesadillas

Lunch · Dinner · Tex-Mex

Cheeseburger quesadillas

Everything you want from a cheeseburger, folded into a crisp tortilla. Gherkin salsa for dunking.

Start to finish
55 min
Hands-on
42 min
In the fridge
2 days
Freezes
Not well

Contains gluten, dairy, mustard

Ingredients

4 portions
  • 1Brown onion
  • 1 tbspVegetable oil
  • 500gBeef mince
  • 3 tbspTomato ketchup
  • 2 tspDijon mustard
  • 250gCherry tomatoes
  • 60gGherkins
  • ½Red onion
  • 200gMature cheddar
  • 8Tortilla wraps

Plus salt, pepper and water.

Method

  1. 1

    Finely chop the brown onion.

  2. 2

    Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a high heat and brown the mince for 8 minutes, breaking it up, until there is no pink left. Add the onion and cook for 5 minutes more, until soft.

  3. 3

    Stir in the ketchup, mustard and some salt and pepper, and cook for a minute. Tip into a bowl and wipe out the pan.

  4. 4

    For the salsa, quarter the tomatoes and finely chop the gherkins and red onion. Mix with a splash of vinegar from the gherkin jar and a pinch of salt.

  5. 5

    Grate the cheese. Scatter a little over one half of each tortilla, spoon the mince on top, add the rest of the cheese and fold over into a half-moon.

  6. 6

    Put the pan back over a medium heat and cook the quesadillas two at a time for 2 minutes a side, until golden and crisp and the cheese has melted.

  7. 7

    Cut each one in half and serve with the salsa.

On the day

Eat hot from the pan. The cooked mince keeps for 2 days in the fridge, so fresh quesadillas for lunch are 10 minutes away; warm the mince until piping hot before filling.

Cook’s tip

Keep the heat at medium. Any higher and the tortillas scorch before the cheese in the middle has melted.