Baked Turkey Quesadilla

Name: Baked Turkey Quesadilla
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 4 burrito size tortillas; 1 cup shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese; 1/2 cup diced, cooked turkey breast; 3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

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Prep 5 min
Total 15 min
Servings 4

This easy, fast main dish is fabulous for using those turkey leftovers. MORE+ LESS-

By Scaron

Updated August 4, 2016

Ingredients

burrito size tortillas

cup shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese

1/2

cup diced, cooked turkey breast

slices bacon, cooked and crumbled

Steps

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1

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with either parchment paper or nonstick aluminum foil.
2

Lay two of the tortillas on the baking sheet. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the shredded cheddar cheese on each of them. Top with 1/4 cup diced turkey breasts, each, and 1/2 of the bacon. Top with the remaining cheese, divided easily between them. Cover with a second tortilla each.
3

Slide the tray into the oven and cook for about 10 minutes, until the cheese is all melted. Remove from the oven and let sit for 5-10 minutes before slicing.
4

Serve immediately. These are particularly good with barbecue sauce.

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More About This Recipe

When it comes to Thanksgiving leftovers, my family and I get tired of eating the same mix of turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing and cranberries pretty quickly. That’s why recipes that reinvent the taste totally rock.

Reimagining the leftovers is essential for us. So, when it comes to Thanksgiving, we typically eat the whole meal again once as leftovers. Then, the individual parts of the meal become other dishes. Mashed potatoes top a turkey shepherd’s pie (which I freeze until mid-December). Cranberry sauce is used in thumbprint cookies, coffee cakes and more.

As for the turkey – it goes into that shepherd’s pie. It’s also chopped up and used in salads, pastas, soups … and dishes like these Baked Turkey Quesadillas.

These are fabulous. You have the sharp cheddar, juicy turkey and a touch of salty bacon all tucked between tortillas. And because it’s baked, you don’t have to worry for a second about spilling the contents of these stuffed tortillas when flipping them. Easy, easy, easy.

Serve these delicious quesadillas with barbecue sauce for dipping (they are fabulous with it!). And be sure to have that salad, too. The salad totally rounds it all out.

Sarah W. Caron (aka scaron) is a food writer, editor and blogger who writes about family-friendly foods and raising a healthy family at Sarah’s Cucina Bella.