🫓 Cheese Quesadilla

Cheese Quesadilla for kids: the whole recipe

Let's make a melty, cheesy quesadilla and cut it into wedges! This easy recipe is for ages 7 to 12 (grades 2nd–6th), takes about 15 minutes and serves 2. Crumb, our tiny chef, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow along, and every hot or sharp step is marked for a grown-up.

Ingredients

• 2 tortillas (or corn tortilla)
• ½ cup grated cheddar
• 2 teaspoons butter (or oil)

Tools

A cutting board, Measuring cups, A frying pan, The stove (grown-up), A flat spatula, A sharp knife (grown-up), A plate.

Steps

1. Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds.
2. Lay 2 tortillas flat on a clean board.
3. Sprinkle ½ cup of grated cheddar over one half of each, not quite to the edge.
4. Fold the empty half over the cheese, like closing a book.
5. Grown-up step: A grown-up warms 2 teaspoons of butter in a pan over medium heat.
6. Grown-up step: A grown-up cooks it two minutes, flips it, and cooks it two more.
7. Wait two minutes: melted cheese is very hot.
8. Grown-up step: A grown-up cuts it in half, then in half again: four wedges!
9. Share out the wedges and pull one apart: look at that stretch!

Safety notes

• Sharp! A grown-up does this part.
• Hot! A grown-up does this part.
• Contains milk, wheat. Tap "Allergies?" on the Kitchen's front page and the swaps fill themselves in where there is one.
• Read the label on packets for allergies.
• A bit messy.

Kitchen science

Cheese melts at a low temperature, so a few minutes in a warm pan turns it gooey and stretchy.

Make it your own

• Add a spoonful of beans or sweetcorn with the cheese.
• Dip the wedges in salsa or sour cream.
• Mix two cheeses, like cheddar and mozzarella, for extra stretch.

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