Quesadilla
Folded tortilla with melted cheese; in Mexico City, controversially can be made without cheese despite the name (comes from 'queso').
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Quesadilla Tex-Mex
American-style quesadilla; large flour tortilla folded with cheese and various fillings, often with sour cream, guacamole.
Quesadilla Gringa
Flour tortilla quesadilla with al pastor and cheese; the 'gringa' indicates flour tortilla usage.
Quesadilla Grande
Extra-large quesadilla with multiple fillings.
Quesadilla Frita
The quesadilla frita is the one dropped whole into a vat of hot lard, so the masa balloons and crackles into a hard golden shell around a molten core, a different machine from the dry comal entirely.
Quesadilla de Tinga
Chicken tinga quesadilla; shredded chicken in chipotle-tomato.
Quesadilla de Rajas
Poblano strip quesadilla; roasted poblano with crema.
Quesadilla de Queso
Cheese quesadilla; simple melted cheese in tortilla.
Quesadilla de Quesillo
The version where the cheese is the whole subject: Oaxacan string cheese unwound by hand and brought up slowly to a long elastic pull, with two ingredients and nowhere for a mistake to hide.
Quesadilla de Pastor
Spit-shaved al pastor pork closed into a cheese quesadilla on a Mexico City comal; the same filling as the open taco, in a sealed fold with quesillo added.
Quesadilla de Papas
Potato quesadilla; mashed seasoned potatoes.
Quesadilla de Masa
Fresh masa quesadilla; made from fresh corn masa, thicker, often fried. CDMX markets.
Quesadilla de Huitlacoche
The Aztec corn fungus, reduced down with epazote and folded with melted cheese into a fresh corn tortilla on a hot comal; central Mexican rainy-season delicacy.
Quesadilla de Hongos
The mushroom quesadilla turns on a long, dry sauté: cook the champiñones past the steam to where they brown, then bind them in quesillo for a soft, meaty bite with no meat in it.
Quesadilla de Flor de Calabaza
A quesadilla built around a flower that wilts by noon: bright orange flor de calabaza wilted fast, cut with epazote, held in a thread of melted quesillo so the cheese never buries it.
Quesadilla de Chorizo
Fresh Mexican chorizo renders its annatto-red fat straight into the melting cheese, staining it orange and seasoning it from within. Drain the grease or the fold will split.
Quesadilla de Chicharrón
Pork crackling quesadilla; chicharrón prensado or in salsa verde.
Quesadilla de Carne
The Mexican beef quesadilla: griddled bistec or shredded deshebrada folded into a corn tortilla over a stringing melter, the seam pressed shut on the comal until the inside fuses.
Machete
Very long quesadilla; named for its machete-like shape, made with fresh masa.
Kimchi Quesadilla
The kimchi quesadilla cooks the ferment down in butter before it meets the cheese, so the fold crisps instead of weeping. A Kogi BBQ creation from Los Angeles, 2008, the plainest of its quesadillas.
Gringa
Flour tortilla quesadilla with al pastor meat; called 'gringa' (white girl) because of flour tortilla.
Chicken Quesadilla (USA)
American chicken quesadilla; grilled chicken, cheese, peppers, onions.