Are you looking for an easy, filling, 30 minutes or less recipe for dinner? Simple prep and not a lot of clean up? Well, today I gotcha covered! Because I needed a nice, easy breezy meal that would keep me full, keep the kitchen decent, and not take me forever to make. And guess what?
Success!!! Meet these 30 Minute Loaded Steak Quesadillas ????????????.
Loaded you ask? Not only are these steak quesadillas layered with a pound of top sirloin, there’s also black beans, fire roasted corn, cherry tomatoes, avocado, and of course, two layers of cheese. This amount of goodness brings the basic cheese quesadilla up a bit higher in the world wouldn’t you agree? Like “Instead of as a snack…I’m going to make steak quesadillas for DINNER!” level.
Speaking of steak, I went a crazy easy route. No marinating, no slow cooking, nothing. A regular sirloin, coated in spices (mexican spice blend for the win!) and quickly seared in a pan, 3 minutes max on each side. Thinly slice against the grain and that’s it! Layer them in your quesadilla and throw the whole thing in the oven.
Not into rare steak? Noooo worries! The steak is only quickly seared on the stove because it’ll cook more in the oven, closer to the medium rare and medium range.
Ingredients
For the Steak
3/4 – 1 lbs sirloin steak
1 teaspoon ancho chili powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon ground mexican oregano
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
Pinch of cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
For the Quesadillas
4 large flour tortillas
2 cups Mexican Cheese Blend
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced
1/2 cup canned fire roasted corn kernels, drained
1/2 cup canned black beans, drained
1/2 an avocado, diced
Limes wedges and fresh minced cilantro for garnish
Instructions
Preheat oven to 425˚F. Prepare a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper.
In a small bowl, mix together all spices and salt for the steak. Generously coat steak with spice blend.
Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Sear steak, no more than 3 minutes per side. The steak will cook more in the oven so make sure it’s just a sear! Remove from heat and let rest for 5 minutes while prepping quesadillas.
Place 2 tortillas on the prepared sheet and sprinkle each one with 1/2 cup of the cheese.
Top with tomatoes, corn, black beans, and avocado.
Thinly slice steak against the grain. Place slices on top of the loaded tortillas.
Sprinkle the rest of the cheese evenly over both quesadillas and cover with remaining tortillas.
Bake in the oven for 6-8 minutes, until cheese is melted and tortillas are warmed through.
Remove from oven and slice as desired. Top with cilantro and serve with lime wedges, a dollop of sour cream and your favorite salsa and guacamole!
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WHEN are you going to make your recipes so they can be easily printed?
Is there some kind of a patent infringement if you do?
“I Wash… You Dry” has great printable recipes.
Thanks for reading my gripe.
The “print” option box has been removed from this site for a while now. If you want to print it there is a fairly simple way to do it. First just highlight the part of the page that you want to print (left click and hold the left mouse button down and drag the mouse down the page to the end of the picture and text, then release it….then do a “ctrl p” which will bring up the “print” page….then, on the right side of the screen go to the bottom where it says “additional” options (I think) and scroll down to the “my selections only” and choose that box…the text and picture on the left will then change to show the highlighted text and picture that you selected….then select “Print” and it should print.
I can’t do corn for me allergy, what can I use for a replacement?
Oh my goodness you have a corn allergy. So do I and never knew anyone to have the same allergy. I use chickpeas in place of corn or even green beans. I don’t know how that would taste with this recipe but I’m going to try making it.
It would be great if there was a share button. Texans tend to be wild about anything like this.
Wowza, this was phenonminal even though I did not have corn or beans or fresh tomatoes (used some strained salsa tomatoes), used our left over (Codys’ restaurant) prime rib The spices on the beef were out of this world! Even chef hubby gave it a 5 thumbs up. Will use that mixture of spices wherever I can. Thank you sharing <3