Salvadorian Quesadilla Recipe
Salvadorian Quesadilla or Quesadilla Salvadoreña is a sweet cheese pound cake that is popular in El Salvador. Made with typical cake ingredients like eggs, butter, flour, and baking powder, it also includes cheese. The ingredients are simply mixed, poured into a baking dish, topped with sesame seeds, and baked to perfection.
Ingredients
- Unsalted butter, melted and cooled - 1 cup
- All-purpose flour - 2 ½ cups
- Baking powder - 1 tbsp
- Kosher salt - ½ tsp
- Eggs - 7
- Sugar - 2 cups
- Vanilla extract - ¾ tsp
- Cotija cheese (finely grated) - 3 cups
- Whole milk - 1 cup
- Sesame seeds - ¼ cup
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- Butter a rectangular baking dish or line a pan with parchment.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Separate eggs, placing yolks in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and whites in a separate small bowl.
- Add sugar and vanilla to egg yolks and beat on medium-high speed until very pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes.
- Reduce speed to medium, add cheese and beat just to combine.
- Reduce speed to low. Add milk in 3 additions, incorporating completely after each addition before adding more.
- Stream in the melted butter and beat until combined.
- Gradually add the dry ingredients and beat until combined, about 1 minute. Scrape batter into a large bowl.
- Thoroughly clean and dry mixer bowl to remove any yolk fat.
- Combine egg whites and a pinch of salt in bowl.
- Using whisk attachment, beat, starting on medium-low speed and gradually increasing to medium-high, until tripled in volume and peaks form, about 2 minutes.
- Add half of the egg whites to batter and fold in with a rubber spatula until no streaks remain.
- Repeat with remaining egg whites.
- Scrape batter into prepared baking dish then sprinkle the sesame seeds over.
- Bake, rotating halfway through, until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean, 24–28 minutes.
- Let cool slightly before running a spatula or knife along the sides to loosen the sides. Serve.
Nutrition
Calories: 648kcalCarbohydrates: 68gProtein: 16gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 20gCholesterol: 217mgSodium: 777mgFiber: 1gSugar: 41g
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