Quesadilla

The quesadilla ( German as: cheese tortilla ) is a typical Mexican dish that is based on the basis of a Mexican tortilla. In the original, this tortilla is cooked with cheese. This is placed in the center of a folded and subsequently baked or fried tortilla. In Mexico City and the surrounding area it is cooked with various ingredients (meat, mushrooms, cuitlacoche, potatoes, squash blossom ). Another preparation method is to take raw tortilla mass to fill and then to bake in fat. It is important that the tortilla is folded and not rolled up.

A common variant in the United States consists of two tortillas, which are similar to a sandwich stuffed with cheese and other ingredients and then baked. But usually it involves wheat tortillas. This dish is known under the name Burritas, but very different from the American burritos.

On the small Canary Island of El Hierro there under that name also a sweet version: a small cake made ​​with cream cheese, flour, lemon, egg and sugar.

Etymology: Quesadilla is the diminutive of Quesada ( diminutive suffix - illa ), which describes in Spain a dessert on the basis of grated bread, fresh cheese, eggs and sugar. Quesada is derived from queso ( cheese). Queso derived from the Latin caseus that ( be * kwat, sour ) in the Indo-European proto-language in turn is the origin.