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Leftover Steak Quesadillas

These Leftover Steak Quesadillas are by far my favorite way to use leftover steak. Oozey cheese in a warm tortilla with onions and mushrooms. YUMM!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories

Ingredients
  

  • Leftover steak of any kind or Prime Rib cubed small
  • 1/2 cup Yellow Onion diced
  • 8 oz mushrooms sliced
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 4 Large Flour Tortillas burrito sized
  • 8 oz Monterrey jack cheese or your favorite cheese -grate your own
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • red wine beef broth or water to deglaze pans
  • 4 Tablespoons butter divided

Instructions
 

  • Prepare your ingredients by grating the cheese, dicing the steak in tiny pieces, and slicing your onions
    The cheese grated and steak cubed for leftover steak quesadillas
  • In a skillet heat a tablespoon or so of olive oil and cook your onion, mushrooms and garlic on medium heat.
    Mushrooms , onion and garlic cooking in a medium skillet for leftover steak quesadillas
  • Deglaze your pan occasionally with wine or water . Cook until the onions are done to your liking
    Deglazing skillet with red wine while the onions , garlic and mushrooms cook for leftover steak quesadillas
  • Once the veggies are done to your liking add the cubed steak . Cook until the meat is heated well.
    Adding cubed leftover steak to onions, mushrooms and garlic in a skillet
  • Start heating a large skillet or griddle on medium heat with add a tablespoon of butter
    Heating a skillet with butter for leftover steak quesadillas
  • Add the tortilla to the skillet . On one side add a layer of cheese , meat mixture and then top it with a little more cheese .
    A tortilla in a skillet with cheese , steak , mushrooms , onions and garlic on one side
  • Fold the tortilla over and brown bottom of the tortilla
    Leftover steak quesadilla cooking on one side
  • Carefully carefully flip and brown the other side
    Flipping the steak quesadillas over and allowing the other side to cook
  • Slice in half to serve .
    Cutting a leftover steak quesadilla in half

Notes

I say 8 oz of cheese but if you like cheese have more available .
This is a very basic recipe that any leftover meat can be used 
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