Choosing Ingredients for Making Quesadillas

Series Summary

Quesadillas are a favorite in Tex-Mex cuisine. There are many variations of this particular Mexican food dish, but the basic preparation and ingredients remain the same. Quesadillas, or little cheesy thing in English, are generally made of corn tortillas, flour tortillas, or masa dough tortillas filled with cheese. The possibilities are limitless as to how you make your own quesadillas and what ingredients you put inside your quesadillas; all you need to do is learn the basics of making quesadillas and then let your creative inspirations take over. If you would like to learn how to make quesadillas, you can learn, for free, online, from one of our experts.

In this free online video series, learn how to make quesadillas, from aspiring chef J. Costilla. J will teach you an easy quesadilla recipe that will allow you to make quesadillas in minutes. J will demonstrate how to choose ingredients for quesadillas, how to cut your vegetables for quesadillas, how to prepare your ingredients for quesadillas, how to make pico de gallo, how to make guacamole, how to layer your quesadillas, how to cook your quesadillas, and how to serve quesadillas. Once you have the basics down, feel free to let your imagination run wild and create new kinds of quesadillas unique to your kitchen.

Video Transcript

"How you doing? My name is J and I'm going to be talking to you guys on behalf of expertvillage.com today we are going to make a quesadilla and we are going to make a fresh guacamole and a mango sauce with the quesadilla. The first thing on this I'm going to do is show you how to pick out ingredients. First of all you have the tomato, the tomato needs to be nice and firm all the way around. You want there to be no bruising or no big dents and you want it to be bright red. The avocado for the guacamole now you want this avocado to be nice and tender. You don't want it to be real hard or anything like that, you want to be able to push this circle button on the very top to push that button in and if sinks in like that then that it is nice and firm in the inside. You got your mango we want to make sure that your mango is pretty tender so if you push it down you can go in but you don't want it to be so soft where you thumb goes right through. You want it to be kind of firm but at the same time you want it to be also tender. Same thing with your lime you want to see a nice tenderness going all the way around it and you want it to be bright green. If you see any browning or it is kind of hard that means that it is a older lime and you don't want to go around that lime you want it to stay away from that. With your Serrano's you also want them to be bright green and just look around and make sure that there is no holes or bruising. You onions are kind of hard to tell what your onions look likes because it has a wrap around it you just want to go around the onion and kind of feel and make sure there is no holes or anything like that and the same thing with the shallots. You want to go around and make sure there is no holes and that is how you can pick ingredient for making this meal. "