While I was enjoying some of the leftover roast beef in the grilled roast beef and cheese sandwich I thought that all of the ingredients in the sandwich would make for a great quesadilla and I just had to try it. You can’t really go wrong when you start with nice and tender roast beef and I often use sauteed peppers and onions as quesadilla fillings so it was perfect match. In my opinion quesadillas need to incorporate some kind of heat and with horseradish going well with the beef it wasn’t even a decision to use it. Of course the glue that holds a quesadilla together is the cheese and I went with some swiss that I had leftover from the sandwich and since I also had some of the coffee gravy from the roast beef leftover I added a tablespoon of that to the quesadilla as well. The roast beef quesadilla turned out great! The tortillas were grilled until lightly golden brown and slightly crispy and good! The cheese melted nicely and went well with the roast beef, peppers, onions, horseradish and gravy flavour combo. I served the roast beef quesadillas with some coffee gravy for dipping.
Roast Beef Quesadillas
ingredients
- 1/2 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 onion, sliced
- 1/2 green pepper, sliced
- 1/4 cup roast beef (oven roast or pot roast), sliced or shredded
- 1 tablespoon horseradish
- 1 tablespoon gravy (optional)
- 2 tortillas
- 2 handfuls cheese such as cheddar, swiss or provolone etc., shredded/grated
directions
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the green pepper and saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Melt a touch of butter in a pan.
- Place a tortilla into the pan, swirl it around in the butter and repeat with the second tortilla.
- Sprinkle some cheese on the tortilla followed by the beef, onions, pepper, horseradish and gravy and top with more cheese and finally the other tortilla.
- Cook until the quesadilla is golden brown on both sides and the cheese is melted.
Oooohhhh, I just had Taco Bell and it was awful… I wish I could have just made these!
Mmm these look delicious! Great job working through these leftovers. A problem of mine is that I get sick of the same food too often, so leftovers don't get used or are frozen for later. You've really moved the flavor around each meal that I don't think I'd even notice I was eating roast beef each time!
Oh man, why do I never think to do something like this when I have leftover roast beef!
Mmmm…can't wait to eat this.
yumyum!
Yum! I love the idea of coffee gravy as a dip. Your filling sounds so delicious.
Great recipe — quick, easy, tasty.
I have just come across your blog and I realize I should not food-blog-hop when I'm hungry, but I can't resist.
I'm now following your blog. How do I decide what to cook first?!
The quesadillas look delicious!
these look addictive
I think I need to make a roast beef. The quesadilla looks delicious Kevin.
yum these look good!
Great photo. I really like how you included just a bit of gravy too!
What a creative way to preserve leftovers!
Yum – love quesadillas! And I love dishes like this that makes good use of leftovers 🙂
YUM! I love throwing anything and everything into a quesadilla! Looks great as usual!!
Yum. Those look like perfect comfort food for a wintery November night.
In the words of 30 Rock's Liz Lemon, "I want to go to there."
These look amazing! Can't wait to try the recipe.