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Easy Beef Quesadillas with Avocado Sauce

Easy Beef and Bean Quesadillas with Avocado Sauce

Megan
Easy beef and bean quesadillas with roasted sweet potatoes, avocado, and cheddar cheese topped with avocado sauce.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 50 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Course Dinner, Quesadillas
Cuisine Mexican

Ingredients
  

Roasted Sweet Potato

  • 1 medium sweet potato peeled and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin

Ground Beef

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1/2 cup black beans rinsed and drained
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground oregano
  • 1/4 teaspoon Kosher salt

Avocado Sauce

  • 1 avocado peeled and pitted
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon Kosher salt

Quesadillas

  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 8 '' flour tortillas
  • 1 avocado peeled, pitted, and cubed
  • 1 cup cheddar cheese shredded

Instructions
 

Roasted Sweet Potatoes

  • Preheat oven to 425℉. Arrange chopped sweet potato on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle olive oil over sweet potato. Season with the salt, pepper, and cumin. Toss around to mix the seasonings together and then arrange into one even layer again. Roast for 25 minutes, tossing halfway through.

Ground Beef

  • Meanwhile cook ground beef in a large skillet and cook over medium high heat breaking it up into small pieces. Cook for about 8-10 minutes or until cooked through and no pink is visible. Add black beans, cumin, oregano, and salt and stir in. Transfer to a bowl and keep near the stove. Wash and dry skillet to use for quesadillas.

Avocado Sauce

  • In a medium bowl, mash avocado with a fork. Add plain yogurt, lime, juice, and salt and mix well. Store in fridge until ready to use.

Quesadillas

  • Arrange an assembly line of tortillas, the beef and bean mixture, roasted sweet potatoes, cubed avocado, and cheddar cheese. Add a scoop of the cooked ground beef and bean mixture to one half of the tortilla, followed by a little of the roasted sweet potato, a few pieces of cubed avocado, and a sprinkle of cheddar cheese. Fold over the empty half of the tortilla over the filled half. Repeat for remaining quesadillas.
  • Heat 1-2 tablespoons olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook quesadilla 1-2 minutes per side, reducing heat to medium low if necessary. The skillet seems to get hot quickly after the first quesadilla is cooked. Remove from heat and cut down the middle and serve. Top with avocado sauce and a squeeze of lime if desired.