Tex Mex

Black Bean Quesadilla

Name: Black Bean Quesadilla
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tex Mex
Ingredients: 4 large flour tortillas; 15 oz canned black beans; 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack; 1/2 cup salsa; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1/2 tsp chili powder; 1 tbsp neutral oil; 1/2 cup sour cream

Yesenia @yesenia_tejana

Black Bean Quesadilla is Tex Mex home cooking, eaten at lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 large flour tortillas
15 oz canned black beans
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack
1/2 cup salsa
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp chili powder
1 tbsp neutral oil
1/2 cup sour cream

How to cook it

Mash the black beans lightly with the cumin and chili powder.
Spread the bean mixture over half of each tortilla, top with cheese, and fold over.
Heat the oil in a skillet over medium and cook each quesadilla until golden and the cheese melts, about 3 minutes per side.
Cut into wedges and serve with salsa and sour cream.

Watch how to cook Black Bean Quesadilla

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Tex Mex lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Black Bean Quesadilla, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Refried Beans
  
  25 min
The sharp little thing
- Guacamole Casero
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Black Bean Quesadilla carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Black Bean Quesadilla
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Carne Guisada
Gluten	Yes	Beef and Bean Tostadas
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 560 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 7 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 1050 mg
Saturated fat: 15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Black Bean Quesadilla takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.