Quesadilla Marina

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Preparation info
  • serves

    1

    as a first course or can be cut in wedges for hors d’oeuvres
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cooking One on One

By John Ash

Published 2004

  • About

I encountered this “open face” quesadilla many years ago at a stand in Mexico, where a guy with a little kerosene stove and a small sauté pan was turning out a quesadilla a minute for an approving line of sun worshippers on a beach near Manzanillo. If you have homemade tortillas, so much the better. Ideally, pan and tortilla should be pretty much the same diameter to facilitate turning it out cleanly. A nonstick pan makes life easier too. Finally, you can also make this in the more traditio