Chorizo and Shrimp Quesadillas With Smoky Guacamole
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Ready In: 25 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 ripe Hass avocadoes
- 1 lime, juice of
- 2 -3 pinches salt
- 1⁄4 cup sour cream
- 2 chipotle peppers
- 1⁄2 lb chorizo sausage, sliced thin on an angle
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, plus some for drizzling
- 1 garlic clove, cracked away from skin and crushed
- 12 large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails removed
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
- 4 (12 inch) flour tortillas
- 2 cups shredded monterey jack pepper cheese
Directions
- 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.
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