Quesadilla
The quesadilla (about: cheese - Tortilla ) is a typical Mexican dish based on a Mexican tortilla. In the original, this tortilla is made with cheese, which is placed in the middle of a folded tortilla, which is then baked or fried. In Mexico City and the surrounding area, it is prepared with various ingredients such as meat, mushrooms, cuitlacoche , potatoes or pumpkin blossom. Another preparation option is to fill the raw tortilla mass and then bake it in fat. It is important that the tortilla is folded and not rolled up.
A variant common in the USA consists of two tortillas that are filled with cheese and other ingredients, like a sandwich , and then baked. Mostly these are wheat tortillas. This dish is known as burritas , but they are very different from American burritos .
On the small Canary Island of El Hierro, there is also a sweet variant under this name: a small cheesecake made from cream cheese, flour, lemon, egg and sugar, which is seasoned with aniseed and tree heather .
etymology
Quesadilla is the diminutive of Quesada (diminutive suffix -illa ), which in Spain describes a dessert based on grated bread, fresh cheese, eggs and sugar. Quesada is derived from queso (cheese). Queso comes from the Latin caseus , which in turn has its origin in the Indo-European original language ( * kwat- , sourish).
literature
- James Rizzi, Peter Bührer: My New York Cookbook. What's cooking? Mary Hahn-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-87287-432-2 , p. 11.