Shrimp & Soy-rizo Quesadillas

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (12 ounce) package soy chorizo, or (i used frieda's brand)
• 1/2 lb chorizo sausage, sliced thin on an angle
• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 12 large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails removed
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 4 (12 inch) flour tortillas
• 2 cups monterey jack pepper cheese, shredded

Recipe

• 1 heat a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium high heat.
• 2 brown chorizo 2 to 3 minutes, then remove from pan. the soyrizo takes much less time to heat through.
• 3 add oil, garlic, then shrimp.
• 4 season shrimp with salt and pepper and cook shrimp until pink, 2 or 3 minutes.
• 5 transfer shrimp to a cutting board and coarsely chop.
• 6 spray pan with non stick cooking spray and add a large tortilla.
• 7 cook tortilla 30 seconds, then turn.
• 8 cover 1/2 of the tortilla with a couple of handfuls of cheese.
• 9 arrange a layer of soyrizo and shrimp over the cheese and fold tortilla over.
• 10 press down gently with a spatula and cook tortilla a minute or so on each side to melt cheese and crisp.
• 11 remove quesadilla to large cutting board and repeat with remaining ingredients.
• 12 cut each quesadilla into 5 wedges and transfer to plates with your spatula.
• 13 top wedges of quesadillas with guacamole, sour cream or salsa.