Cheese Quesadillas with a Green Mole Sauce

Name: Cheese Quesadillas with a Green Mole Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Mexico
Ingredients: 300 g/10½ oz mozzarella, thinly sliced; 2 large handfuls parsley leaves; 2 large handfuls coriander leaves; juice of 2 limes; 30 g/1 oz/scant ¼ cup pumpkin seeds; 2 large mild green chillies, deseeded; 4 spring onions; ½ tbsp cumin seeds; 2 tbsp olive oil; 50 g/1¾ oz/⅓ cup sesame seeds; 2 garlic cloves; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 560 ml/19¼ fl oz/2¼ cups hot vegetable stock; 8 large flour tortillas

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mighty Spice Cookbook

By John Gregory-Smith

Published 2012

About

Ingredients

8 large flour tortillas
300 g/10½ oz mozzarella, thinly sliced

Americas
Mexico
Main course
Vegetarian
Central America
Spicy

Method

To make the green mole sauce, put all the ingredients into a food processor, season with a really good pinch of salt and pepper and blend on a high setting for about 5 minutes, or until really smooth. Pour into a large saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes until the sauce has reduced slightl