Do you love carnitas? I sure do and we have not been able to get good carnitas here in the boonies. One of my friends from work told me that he was headed toward Sacramento to a Mexican market called La Esperanza. He told me that they had really good carnitas and would I like some. Twist my arm! He brought me back a sampling to try and told me that if I liked it, next time he would go down he would pick some more up for me. Boy was it good! I used the meat to make quesadillas! Another really good comfort food meal!
Ingredients
Carnitas
Cheddar Cheese
Flour tortillas
Medium hot salsa
Oil
Everything is ready to go!
Coarsely chop up the carnitas, grate the cheese and get out the salsa and tortillas. Heat a small amount of oil in a good size fry pan and just reheat up the carnitas.
Warm up the carnitas in a bit of oil
Set this aside. Clean the pan and then just rub with some oil. Heat it up over medium high heat. Place a tortilla into the pan to warm.
Warm up the flour tortilla
Turn it and then layer with the cheese, meat and then sprinkle on the salsa.
Layer the cheese, the meat and then cover with salsa
Cover with another tortilla and let the ingredients cook a bit and then turn.
Flip the quesadilla
Once the cheese has melted and all is piping hot, remove from the pan. Cut into slices like a pizza and serve it up!
Cut and serve!
Serve this up with a really good beer and a side bowl of salsa!
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