July: Featured Meal Main Course

Broccoli and Black Bean Quesadilla
and Fruity Pops

Ingredients

1 cup cooked black beans

1/4 cup salsa
4 ounces low-fat cheddar cheese (1 cup grated)
1 cup cooked broccoli
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

4 8-inch flour tortillas

Instructions

  1. In large mixing bowl, mash beans.
  2. Drain salsa and add to beans.Grate cheese and add to beans.
  3. Chop broccoli and add to beans.
  4. Heat 1/2 tablespoon of oil in frying pan on medium.
  5. Lay tortilla flat on plate. Using 1/4 of bean mixture, fill half of tortilla, folding other half over mixture.
  6. Place folded tortilla in pan. Cook 3-4 minutes until lightly browned.
  7. Flip and cook second side.
  8. Remove from pan and cut in half.
  9. Repeat with remaining tortillas adding 1/2 tablespoon to pan just before adding the third tortilla.

Yields 8 servings

Get Fresh! At Your Farmers Market from Cornell Cooperative Extension and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

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