Fried Egg Quesadillas

Hello, tardily breakfast on the fly! For everyone who's a fan of fried egg sandwiches, here's a fast together with fresh tortilla version. That's right, no bread, simply a flour tortilla. It's quick together with easy, needs simply a unmarried skillet, calls for simply 3 ingredients ... but fills you lot upward amongst good for you lot protein. Could a Fried Egg Tortilla plow into dinner? Naturally! Just add together fixin's similar salsa, sour cream, avocado, pickled jalapeño together with to a greater extent than together with you've got yourself a feast.

Real Food, Fast & Flexible. Budget Friendly. Just Three Ingredients. High Protein. Vegetarian.

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everyday bread on hand. Turns out, a for sure hubby thrills for morn toast together with jam. But the upside is that nosotros actually got turned onto cooking tortillas. Since they continue good together with fifty-fifty freeze, it's tardily to never run out.

Fried Egg Sandwiches Deserve To Be A Thing. When was the final fourth dimension you lot made a fried egg sandwich? Did you lot seat ketchup on it?! Why don't nosotros brand to a greater extent than of these lilliputian wonders of the sandwich world?!

And the Winner Is ... Fried Egg Quesadillas!

We incorporated tortillas into our meals inward many ways this leap but these Fried Egg Quesadillas are the clear winner, based on speed, convenience together with outright deliciousness. I bring at to the lowest degree i to a greater extent than tortilla recipe to percentage but this one's already built itself into our regular breakfast routine together with yeah, the occasional supper saver too.

The consider was to brand fried egg sandwiches except amongst tortillas. We could bring simply wrapped cooked egg inward a golden tortilla (and do! thus good!) but all of a sudden, nosotros craved something a lilliputian to a greater extent than substantial.

Enter Fried Egg Quesadillas.

Things to Know About Tortillas. (Yes, Tortillas Freeze!)

• Yes, you lot tin dismiss brand your own. Some day, fifty-fifty I'll give that a try.
• But decent tortillas are tardily to discovery together with inexpensive. They operate for us. You too?
• We fifty-fifty purchase the huge stacks of tortillas at Sam's Club / Costco, fifty-fifty simply for the 2 of us.
• They keep! They final a proficient calendar month inward the fridge.
• Better still? They freeze! I split the giant stack of tortillas into smaller stacks, plenty for a yoke of weeks, together with thus skid a stack into freezer bags. Tortillas freeze actually well, improve than staff of life since they stack thus densely.

Keys to Success

• A Good Non-Stick Skillet Helps This Cuisinart non-stick skillet (affiliate link) rarely gets seat away, that's how useful it is. It comes amongst a drinking glass lid which is handy. A well-seasoned cast Fe skillet (affiliate link) also industrial plant but may postulate to to a greater extent than fossil oil to forbid sticking for both the tortilla together with the eggs.
• A Non-Stick Skillet Needs a Non-Stick Spatula I've been using the same non-stick spatula (affiliate link) for at to the lowest degree twenty years, non the same i of course, it needs replacing every iv or 5 years.
• Timing Is Everything My hubby makes Fried Egg Quesadillas amongst 2 skillets, i for the tortillas, i for the eggs. With i skillet, you'll warm the tortillas piece gathering the other ingredients, together with thus add together the cheese to the warm tortilla to get-go the melting process, together with thus ready the egg inward the same skillet, together with thus ready the quesadilla inward the same skillet. One skillet for the win!
• Watch the Cheese A quesadilla isn't a quesadilla without cheese but it's tardily to overdo the cheese, delicious, for sure, but the calories volition mount.

You Might Wonder Be Wondering ...

WHAT ABOUT CORN TORTILLAS? Corn tortillas are a lilliputian less pliable, harder to bend over. That said, you lot could seat the eggs betwixt 2 corn tortillas, together with thus cutting the circular into wedges. Yeah, sure, corn tortillas would operate fine. I talked myself into this!

WHAT ABOUT BAKING THE QUESADILLAS? This would operate bully together with locomote specially helpful for making quesadillas for a solid unit of measurement or a group.

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FRIED EGG QUESADILLAS

Hands-on time: 10 minutes
Time-to-table: 10 hours
Makes 1 quesadilla
Easily doubled

• 1 flour tortilla brushed amongst a tiny smidgin of oil
• 1 - 1.5 oz grated cheese (for 1 - 2 eggs), preferably a proficient melting cheese but nosotros also similar the crumbly queso fresco
• 1 or 2 large eggs amongst a lilliputian fossil oil if needed
• Pepper to taste

FOR A FEAST
• Salsa (Best Quick Tomato Salsa (Red Salsa) or My Guacamole)
• Sour cream (especially Lime Crema)
• Pickled onion (especially Spiced Pickled Red Onions)
• Pickled jalapeños (especially Quick Jalapeño Pickles)
• Sliced avocado
• Cooked rice (especially Mexican Cauliflower "Rice")
• Cooked beans (especially Magical Breakfast Cream Citrus Slices amongst Orange Flower Water, Spices & Chocolate Shavings Simple Grilled Salmon One Quick Tip: Tomato Knife for Clean, Sharp Slices Mini Blueberry Tarts Easy Ham Salad