Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Pizza Quesadillas

Pizza Quesadillas. When my husband and I needed a quick meal, I fixed this recipe using leftover ingredients. Unlike traditional Mexican quesadillas, it calls for Italian meats, cheeses and seasoning. Serve it with a green salad for a simple dinner for two..

The basic idea is that you make a pizza quesadilla, stuffed with your favourite pizza ingredients including pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni and black olives, and then you top the quesadilla with more of the pizza toppings and quickly bake it to melt the cheese on top! Pepperoni and sauce tucked into gooey cheese, these Pepperoni Pizza Quesadillas are a kid-friendly meal everyone will love! Slice into quarters and serve with a little bowl of warm pizza sauce for dipping. You can cook Pizza Quesadillas using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pizza Quesadillas

1. You need 4 of burrito size flour tortillas.
2. It's 2 tbs of butter.
3. It's 1 cup of shredded pizza blend cheese.
4. It's 1/2 cup of chopped pepperoni slices.
5. It's 4 tbs of pizza sauce - divided.
6. It's 4 oz of cream cheese - softened.
7. You need 2 tbs of chopped green onions.
8. Prepare 2 tsp of ranch dressing mix (optional).
9. It's of Optional additional fillings.
10. Prepare of chopped black olives.
11. You need of minced onion - lightly sautéed.
12. You need of minced bell pepper - lightly sautéed.
13. You need of chopped canadian bacon.
14. It's of cooked beef or Italian sausage.

Today there was a little excitement when we made these yummy pizza quesadillas. It was a fun change of pace and we all enjoyed these, even hubby. It is definitely going into the lunch folder. Isaac had so much fun dipping these cheesy pizza quesadillas and they were pretty much mess-free.

Pizza Quesadillas instructions

1. In a small bowl combine cream cheese, green onions, and ranch mix until well blended. Heat a large skillet over medium heat..
2. While skillet heats spread 1 oz of cream cheese mixture on one half of a flour tortilla. Spread pizza sauce over other half..
3. Add 1/2 tbs butter to skillet. Swirl to coat as it melts. Place tortilla in skillet cream cheese/sauce side up..
4. Sprinkle 1/4 cup shredded cheese over sauce side. Top cheese with 2 tbs pepperoni and any other desired fillings..
5. Fold cream cheese side of tortilla over fillings. Gently press together with spatula..
6. Cook until bottom is golden brown. Carefully flip and cook until second side looks the same. Transfer to plate. Let rest a few minutes before cutting..
7. Repeat with remaining ingredients to make 4 yummy quesadillas. Serve with additional pizza sauce if desired. Enjoy!.

Serve with sauce on side. × Pizza Quesadillas (Pizzadillas) are stuffed with mozzarella and pepperoni and dipped in a flavorful homemade pizza sauce for a fun, quick, and easy lunch idea! As school wraps up for the year, I'm dusting off those lunch (and snacktime) recipes that are simple enough for my kids to make for themselves (or with minimal help)…yet yummy enough. Pizza Quesadillas is the perfect meal for busy moms who want to feed their families something hearty and tasty. Add your fave toppings, a fresh garden salad and bread sticks to take it up a notch! A crispy, cheese-stuffed quesadilla forms the base for a quick cast-iron-baked pizza. [Photographs: J.