After enjoying the duck tacos with chipotle cherry salsa and goat cheese a few times last week, I wanted to try something a little different with the remaining leftovers. Right up there with my obsession with tacos is my obsession with quesadillas! I mean you really cannot go wrong with a tasty filling being held together with ooey gooey melted cheese being lovingly held together by lightly toasted and crispy golden brown tortillas! If there is one thing that I like more than straight up goat cheese it is melted goat cheese and I was just itching to use some in a quesadilla along with the chipotle pan seared duck breast and some of that tasty cherry salsa. When goat cheese melts, it does not really have the power to hold things together so I added some jack cheese to ensure that the filling was not going to spill out the sides while eating the quesadillas and you can’t go wrong with two kinds of cheese! I often like to add something to quesadillas to help complement and contrast all of the melted cheesy goodness and this time I went with some sliced green onions and fresh cilantro. I served these duck quesadillas with cherry salsa and goat cheese with some extra cherry salsa and some sour cream for dipping.
Duck Quesadillas with Chipotle Cherry Salsa and Goat Cheese
Chipotle pan seared duck breast quesadillas with ooey gooey melted goat and jack cheese and a sweet, savoury and spicy cherry salsa.
ingredients
- 1/4 teaspoon butter
- 1/4 cup chipotle pan seared duck breast, sliced into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon chipotle cherry salsa
- 1 green onion, sliced
- 1/2 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
- 1/2 cup monterey jack cheese, grated
- 1 ounce goat cheese, room temperature
- 2 (8 inch) tortillas
directions
- Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat.
- Place a tortilla into the pan, swirl it around in the butter an set aside.
- Place the second tortilla into the pan and swirl around in the butter.
- Sprinkle on half of the cheese onto the tortilla followed by the duck, chipotle cherry salsa, green onion and cilantro followed by the remaining cheese and top it all off with the second tortilla.
- Cook until the quesadilla is golden brown on both sides and the cheese is melted.
- Cut the quesadilla into 6 pieces and serve with salsa, sour cream and a garnish of cilantro.
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Kevin! I think you have seriously out done yourself with this one! This looks outrageously delcious!
Another great use for that filling! I love how you always come up with multiple dishes for the same base ingredients!
Quesadillas can do no wrong in my mind – I love the chipotle cherry salsa too!
looks wonderful! My oldest son duck hunts and I will save this for when the season opens! anne
Oh. My. Gosh. Amazing!
Oh wow! What a deliciously interesting recipe! It looks incredible! 🙂
This looks AMAZING! If only I could find some affordable duck breast…
Hi! just discovered your blog and glad I did. I bought a duck breast thats sitting in the freezer because I dont know what to do with it! lol Living in So Cal…tacos and quesadillas are plentiful so this sounds awesome!
Duck is a little rich for my tastes. I would probably replace with chicken. But the cherry salsa and goat cheese sounds utterly incredible, and I think it would still be great, don't you?
The quesadillas are another of my weaknesses, I pointed it!
Wow! I don't think I've ever seen a picture of food where I've desired it so much! This looks brilliant – I've been searching for alternative duck recipes, and this is perfect
What a great combination. You can never have too much duck, in my opinion! Or goat cheese, of course.
Thanks to your blog I dicovered chipotle and I absolutely love it. I'm French and I moved to the US 3 months ago so I had never tried it. But now where do I get the bloody duck in Spokane?
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This recipe looks incredibly delicious, but I've never tried duck and would be somewhat nervous to give it a go…I'd probably substitute it for beef or chicken, although a little voice inside me is saying I should be adventurous…we'll see what happens…
Great recipe. I will try this.
This is just perfect! Every milimeter looks yummy! 🙂
Weird. I totally just made a duck breast and cherry compote sandwich.
I made a similar recipe with raspberry sauce and it was killer! Thanks for posting this fabulous thing.