Chorizo And Shrimp Quesadillas With Smoky Guac Food

CHORIZO QUESADILLAS

Steps:

• Preheat a nonstick skillet or griddle pan to high heat. Blister a flour tortilla for 20 seconds, flip. Cover half the tortilla surface with shredded cheese, bits of chorizo or andouille, and chopped scallions. Fold the tortilla in half and cook a minute longer, 30 seconds on each side, pressing down gently with a spatula. Cut quesadillas into 4 wedges and top with salsa.
• For salsa, combine ingredients in a small bowl and spoon over wedges of quesadilla, as you snack.

SHRIMP QUESADILLA

Steps:

• Place cheese in freezer for around 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Drizzle shrimp with olive oil in a large bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss to coat. Spread on a baking sheet and bake, rotating once, until just cooked through, 7 to 9 minutes.
• When shrimp are cool enough to handle, remove and discard peels and tails. Cut shrimp into thirds.
• Shred cheese using the large holes on a box grater.
• Spread 1 tablespoon mayonnaise on one side of a tortilla. Place tortilla, mayo-side down, in a large skillet. Sprinkle half the cheese evenly over the top of the entire tortilla, then turn heat on to medium-low heat. While pan is heating, sprinkle half of the chopped shrimp, half of the roasted red peppers and half of the cilantro on one half of the tortilla, leaving the other half with just cheese. Let quesadilla cook, checking that the bottom of the tortilla doesn't burn, until cheese is mostly melted, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and carefully fold the quesadilla in half like a book, folding the cheese side over the toppings. Place quesadilla on a plate and let rest 5 minutes. Repeat with second tortilla and ingredients. Cut into wedges before serving.

CHORIZO GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler. Put the poblano, onion and lime on a foil-lined baking sheet. Broil, turning, until everything is charred, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer the poblano to a bowl and cover; let steam 5 minutes. Uncover and let cool, then peel off the skin and remove the stem and seeds. Transfer to a cutting board and dice. Dice the onion.
• Meanwhile, cook the chorizo in a large skillet over medium-high heat, breaking up the meat with a wooden spoon, until browned, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Cut the avocados in half and scoop the flesh into a bowl; smash with a fork. Fold in the chorizo, poblano, onion, jalapeños, cilantro and chicharrónes. Add the juice from the broiled lime. Season with salt.

CHORIZO AND SHRIMP QUESADILLAS WITH SMOKY GUAC

Steps:

• 1. Guac: Cut avocados all the way around with a sharp knife. Scoop out pit with a spoon, then spoon avocado flesh away from skin into a food processor. Add lime juice, salt, sour cream and chiptoles in adobo. Pulse guacamole until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl.
• 2. Quesadillas: Heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over med-high heat. Brown chorizo 2-3 minutes, then remove from pan. Add the olive oil and garlic, then shrimp. Season shrimp with salt and pepper, and cook until pink, 2-3 minutes. Transfer shrimp to a cutting board and coarsely chop. Add a drizzle of oil to the pan, then a tortilla. Cook tortilla 30 seconds, then turn. Cover half of the tortilla with a couple handfuls of cheese. Arrange a layer of chorizo and shrimp over the cheese, and fold tortilla over. Press down gently with a spatula and cook tortilla a minute or so on each side to melt cheese and crisp.
• 3. Remove quesadilla to a large cutting board and repeat with remaining ingredients. Cut each quesadilla into 5 wedges and transfer to plates with your spatula. Top wedges of quesadillas with liberal amounts of smoky guacamole.

SPANISH-STYLE CHORIZO AND SHRIMP QUESADILLA WITH CHIMICHURRI

Steps:

• Heat a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat with EVOO, 2 turns of the pan. Add chorizo and shrimp and cook 3 to 4 minutes. Add sliced garlic and toss. Add piquillos and sherry or wine and let it absorb. Add juice of 1/2 lemon and turn off heat.
• Heat a cast-iron skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Spray the tortillas or skillet lightly with oil. Blister a tortilla and flip. Top the tortilla with a layer of the shredded cheeses. Arrange chorizo and shrimp on half the quesadilla and fold over. Press with a spatula to set, turn a few times to melt the cheese and remove to a cutting board.
• To a food processor bowl, add shallots, crushed garlic, 1/4 cup EVOO, vinegar, juice of 1/2 lemon, cilantro, parsley and season with salt and pepper. Pulse to process into sauce.
• Cut quesadilla into wedges and arrange on platter with dollops of chimichurri, Greek yogurt or creme fraiche and pickled sliced jalapeno peppers.

CHORIZO AND SHRIMP QUESADILLAS WITH SMOKY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Cut avocados all the way around with a sharp knife. Scoop out the pit, then spoon avocado flesh away from skin into a food processor.
• Add the juice of 1 lime, a couple of pinches salt, sour cream and chipotles in adobo. Pulse guacamole until smooth. Transfer to a serving bowl.
• Heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Brown chorizo 2 to 3 minutes, then remove from pan. Add oil, garlic, then shrimp. Season shrimp with salt and pepper and cook shrimp until pink, 2 or 3 minutes. Transfer shrimp to a cutting board and coarsely chop.
• Add a drizzle of oil to the pan and a large tortilla. Cook tortilla 30 seconds, then turn. Cover 1/2 of the tortilla with a couple of handfuls of cheese. Arrange a layer of chorizo and shrimp over the cheese and fold tortilla over. Press down gently with a spatula and cook tortilla a minute or so on each side to melt cheese and crisp. Remove quesadilla to large cutting board and repeat with remaining ingredients. Cut each quesadilla into 5 wedges and transfer to plates with your spatula. Top wedges of quesadillas with liberal amounts of smoky guacamole.

SHRIMP AND CHORIZO IN GARLIC SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium straight-sided pan, heat 2 tablespoons of oil over medium-high heat and saute the chorizo and onions, breaking the chorizo up with a wooden spoon while cooking until it resembles ground beef. Add the adobo, paprika and a few grinds of black pepper. Cook until the fat is rendered and the onions are tender and cooked into the chorizo, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Add the remaining oil and the garlic and lower the heat to medium-low. Let the flavors infuse over the low heat for 5 to 7 minutes. Add the shrimp to the garlic oil, raise the heat slightly, and stir and turn to cook the shrimp evenly, 6 to 8 minutes. Serve as an appetizer on toothpicks with crusty, chewy bread.

SMOKY GUACAMOLE

Steps:

• Pit and scoop out avocados into a bowl. Add the onion, garlic, peppers, adobo sauce, cilantro, lime zest, lime juice, and salt. Mash and taste to adjust salt. Serve with chips.