Wednesday night is “Pizza Night” at our house! This tradition started years ago when the kids were younger. In those days we had at least two of the three, if not ALL three, busy with soccer, baseball, swimming, wrestling, marching band or water polo! It was far easier to pick up a pizza than figure out dinner on a weird time-table. For whatever reason, we’ve kept that tradition. Not so much that our favorite pizza place knows us by name, knows our order and feels free to harass us every time we come in on a night that ISN’T Wednesday. No. Not that much. That would be weird.
ANYWAY…
Earlier I made Garlic Tomato Marinara Sauce, and was trying to find something wonderful to pair with it.
We missed our usual pizza night this week and I knew this marinara would make a spectacular pizza sauce! I had all the ingredients in the refrigerator for pizza quesadillas, so I simply swapped out the pizza sauce for my wonderful homemade version. Lunch has never been more delicious!
Pizza Quesadillas
Inspired by Closet Cooking-Pizzadilla recipe
2 (10 inch) flour tortillas
1 1/2 cup shredded Mozzarella, divided
3/4 cup Garlic Tomato Marinara Sauce, divided
pepperoni slices
sliced black olives
sliced mushrooms
OR a mixture of your own favorite pizza toppings!
Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
Heat an oven-proof skillet over medium heat. Place one tortilla in the pan. Sprinkle 3/4 cup cheese over tortilla, sprinkle 3 TBLS of the marinara sauce randomly over the cheese. place HALF the pepperoni, olives and mushrooms on top of the cheese. Top with second tortilla.
Cook quesadilla until light brown on both sides and the cheese is melted, approx 2-4 minutes per side.
Take the skillet off the heat. Spread 1/4 cup of the remaining marinara sauce across the top of the quesadilla. Sprinkle with all the remaining cheese and adorn with the other half of your pizza toppings!
Put the skillet in the oven and let it bake for 5-10 minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
While the pizza-dilla is baking, warm the remaining marinara in a small saucepan to use as dipping sauce.
Remove pizza-dilla from the oven and let it set for about 3-5 minutes. Cut into eight pieces and enjoy!
This is a quick and easy meal! It is very filling too! It has me thinking about other dishes I could turn into something-dillas! Hmmmm… Of course, it also has me thinking we might be seeing less of Bob, Frankie, Adam and Chris. Not that I know the names of the owner or the rest of the guys at our pizza place. I’m just sayin’. :-)
Enjoy!
Ohh I really want to adapt this and make a vegan pizzadilla. Thanks for the inspiration! I also had a friend who used to make sweet pizzadillas using nutella and berries and other delightful things. Something to try out in the future as well!
Yum!
Sounds delicious–so quick and easy. Around here, Friday night is pizza night. Except now that the oldest is in marching band, during the football season it bops around to Saturday or Sunday. You could say we love our pizza. Since I’ve always got pizza toppings on hand, I could get into a pizza-dilla.
I’m thinking the post-Thanksgiving turkey-pesto-spinach-dilla, a post-Easter ham-sweet-potato-dilla . . .
Thanks!
They are SO easy! You will love them! Ahhh yes, I remember marching band and football season! Good luck!!