You may know this as a popular queso dip, but we use it to fill flour tortillas for an Easy Quesadilla Dinner.
Ingredients:
- 1 pound sausage (we prefer "hot")
- 1 10-ounce can diced tomatoes with green chilies (drained)
- 16 ounces Velveeta
- 8 16-inch flour tortillas
- Olive oil
Directions:
- Cube Velveeta into one-inch squares. Place in the microwave to melt. (I generally put it in for 2 minutes, take it out and stir it and put it back in for another 2 minutes. Continue doing this until it's melted, but still a bit firm.)
- While melting the Velveeta, place the sausage in a frying pan and brown it. Crumble the sausage as it cooks.
- Drain the fat from the sausage.
- Mix the sausage and can of diced tomatoes and green chilies into the melted cheese.
- Let sit until the cheese is a bit firm. To speed this up, place it in the fridge. (We do this so the cheese doesn't ooze out of the Quesadillas while frying them.)
- Brush one side of a tortilla with olive oil and place it in the frying pan on the stove on low heat.
- Scoop the firm cheese and place in the middle of the tortilla. Spread it around, leaving about 1/2 inch around the outside of the tortilla without the spread.
- Place a second tortilla on top and brush it with olive oil.
- Grill on low until the bottom tortilla browns.
- Flip and brown the other side of the tortilla.
- Remove from skillet.
- Let sit a minute.
- Cut with a pizza wheel and serve with sour cream, guacamole, and salsa or pico de gallo. Repeat for remaining tortillas.
Makes 4 Quesadillas.
You can substitute chicken (ground or cubed) or ground beef for the sausage and Velveeta's Queso Blanco for the traditional Velveeta.
