Mmmmmm

I made a delicious dinner last night....if I do say so myself. I'll call it Sweet Potato, Black Bean and Jalapeno Quesadilla but it is so much more than that! I first saw the recipe in a cookbook but I added some things to it so I feel like I can call it my own.

Here goes:
Approx. 2 cup shredded sweet potato or one sweet potato
1 small onion, chopped
2-3 cloves garlic, diced
2 jalapenos, diced
1 can black beans (drained and rinsed)
2 tsp apple cider vinegar or white wine
1/2 small apple, diced
4 wheat tortillas
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 tsp olive oil
1 tbs cumin
Salt and pepper to taste

You'll want to shred/chop/dice your ingredients first because, once you start cooking, this goes pretty quickly.

Heat oil in deep skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onions and saute for about 1 minute. Add the apple and jalapeno and cook for another minute or so. Now add the 2 tsp of apple cider vinegar (or white wine...whichever is most handy), the sweet potato and the cumin. Cover the skillet and let it cook for about 5 minutes or until the sweet potato is soft but not mushy. Check on it every once in a while and stir. Next add the black beans and cook for another minute or so.

Then assemble your quesadillas: tortilla, a bit of cheese, sweet potato mixture, a bit more cheese and then the 2nd tortilla. Cook until cheese is melted and enjoy!

You could almost omit the cheese because you don't even really notice it. This would also be pretty good with some spinach mixed in but we didn't have any growing in the garden yet. The onions were fresh from the garden though and so good.

The best part was, while everything was cooking, I ate the other half of the apple. The apple had been on the cutting board where the jalapenos were diced and so it was a little spicy.

Made my lips tingle. Yum!