Recipes similar to Traditional Quesadillas

A classic Mexican dish, cheese enchiladas are corn tortillas filled with cheese, rolled up, topped with a chili gravy sauce and baked until the cheese melts. A simple, delicious enchilada dish that can be served as an appetizer or a main dish, together with sour cream and guacamole.
 

Beef and refried bean burritos with a homemade tomato based sauce. A delicious recipe that is worth every minute spent cooking it. You can use ready made refried beans and burrito sauce, but making your own gives this dish the extra flavour.
 

Chimichangas is another Mexican favorite. Flour tortillas are filled with a beef mixture and sauce, rolled up and deep fried in vegetable oil. They are served together with jalapeno peppers, lettuce, grated cheese, together with condiments such as pico de gallo, salsa, guacamole, etc. There are a lot of different types of chimichangas, depending on the filling, such as chicken chimichangas, beef chimichangas, etc. This recipe uses a combination of beef and chorizo sausage, a Mexican type of sausage that is quite hot and spicy.
 

Refried beans are a typical Mexican dish that is used as a side dish or as an ingredient in many recipes. Pinto beans are used here but you can also use red kidney or borlotti beans instead. The beans have to be soaked and cooked first, before getting fried.
 

A great Mexican appetizer, cheese nachos are corn tortilla chips topped with cheese and jalapeno chiles.
 

An excellent alternative to beef or chicken burritos, these burritos have vegetables as the main ingredient. This vegetarian version of burritos uses steamed onion, broccoli, zucchini and tomatoes together with cheese and guacamole sauce. The burritos in this recipe are not baked but you can do it if you like. Assemble the burritos and bake for 10 minutes, add some more cheese on top and bake for some more, until the cheese melts. Serve as always with extra guacamole sauce and salsa. The burritos can be served as an appetizer or even a main dish.
 

Delicious beef and bean burritos, easy to make and ready in just 15 minutes. All you need to do is cook the beef and serve it on a flour tortilla together with enchilada souce, sour cream, lettuce, onion and tomatoes. Make sure you have some enchilada souce and refried beans ready.
 

Refried beans is a typical Mexican dish. It can be used as a side dish or as a filling in dishes like enchiladas, burritos and more. This recipe uses fresh beans so make sure you soak them the night before. You can of course use canned beans - the taste might not be the same but they will still taste good.
 

This is a variation of the chicken enchiladas verde that uses over roasted tomato sauce instead of the tomatillo (Verde) sauce. This traditional Mexican recipe using flour tortillas, first fried in vegetable oil, then stuffed with cooked chicken, oven roasted tomato sauce and chili tomato sauce, rolled up, topped with more tomato sauce and cheese and baked for a few minutes in the oven. The roasted tomato sauce (recipe included) takes 6 to 8 hours to prepare but the result is worth the effort. You can make extra tomato sauce and refrigerate it.
 

Corn tortillas are an essential ingredient in the Mexican cuisine. This recipe shows how to make your own, homemade corn tortillas. You will need a special flour called Masa Harina and a tortilla press to form the tortillas.