Shrimp Quesadillas from @MaddieDayAuthor #giveaway

MADDIE DAY here with an easy and delicious recipe for you.

Shrimp Quesadillas

Note: I used flax tortillas because that's what I had in the house, but these are better with flour tortillas. I also didn't have ripe avocados for guacamole, but it's a great additional topping. You can also substitute lobster, chicken, beef, or refried beans for the shrimp.

Ingredients

1 pound frozen shrimp, thawed, shelled, and cut in half

Juice of ½ lime

½ teaspoon chili powder

½ teaspoon powdered cumin

Olive oil

1 small onion, minced

½ red bell pepper, seeded and minced

4 flour tortillas

1 cup grated pepper jack or Monterey Jack cheese

Salsa and sour cream to garnish

 

Directions

Mix lime juice, chili powder, cumin, and oil in a bowl. 

Add prepared shrimp and toss. Refrigerate covered until ready to cook, no more than 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, sauté onion on medium low heat in a tablespoon of oil in a skillet. Add pepper and sauté until softened. Remove to plate.

 

Add 1 tablespoon oil and increase heat to medium high. Drain shrimp and quickly sauté until just past translucence. 

Remove to the vegetable plate.

Add 1 tablespoon oil. On one half of each tortilla, place a few tablespoons (depends on the size of the tortilla) of filling, sprinkle with cheese, and fold over.

Fry two at a time, pressing down with spatula, until lightly browned on one side, then flip and fry other side. (Sorry, forgot to grab a photo of this stage! 

Enjoy with any combination of sour cream, salsa, and guacamole.

This recipe has nothing to do with Christmas, but I'd love to give away two ARC of Christmas Scarf Murder, the new novella collection that includes my "Scarfed Down!"

Readers: Do you do the Feast of Seven Fishes at Christmas? What's your favorite Mexican food?

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.