Luxembourgish Raclette Quesadillas

If, like most of Luxembourg, you’re eating raclette over the holidays, you might find yourself with leftover cheese by the end of the festive season. That’s when these quesadillas come in just perfectly. Melting raclette cheese with smoked ham between two wraps. As a little Luxembourgish twist, I am serving the quesadillas with a local “guacamole” (a broad bean purée) and beetroot salsa. I know it’s cheeky, but it works!

I made this recipe for my “Xmas Leftovers” episodes on RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg. Find the recipe here in Luxembourgish.

Ingredients

For the quesadillas:
8 raclette cheese slices
4 mini tortilla wraps
2 gherkins
4 slices of smoked ham
pepper
melted butter, for brushing

For the Luxembourg “guacamole”:
100g frozen broad beans (ideally without skin)
1 shallot
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp Bounekräitchen (summer savory)
1 tbsp sour cream
lemon zest
salt and pepper

For the beetroot salsa:
1 cooked beetroot
2 mini pickled sweetcorn
1 tbsp mini pickled onions
1 tsp mustard
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tbsp rapeseed oil
1 tbsp cream
1 tbsp tarragon, chopped
salt and pepper

Method

Serves 2

For the “guacamole”: put the broad beans into boiling, salted water and cook for a couple of minutes until soft. Drain under cold water and put into a small food processor. Peel and finely chop the shallot, then fry with a pinch of salt in a tablespoon of oil for a few minutes until soft, adding the Bounekräitchen for the last minute. Add to the food processor with the sour cream, a bit of lemon zest and salt and pepper. Whizz into a paste and set aside.

For the beetroot salsa: cut the beetroot into cubes, the sweetcorn into slices and the mini onions into halves if they’re quite big and put it all in a bowl. In a small bowl, mix the mustard, red wine vinegar, oil, cream, tarragon and season with salt and pepper. Pour over the vegetables and mix.

For the quesadillas: Cut the rind off the raclette cheese. Lay out a tortilla wrap and top with two cheese slices. Slice a gherkin and distribute over the cheese.
Add two ham slices and top with 2 cheese slices. Season with pepper and finish with a second tortilla wrap. Brush the top of the tortilla with melted butter, then flip into the pan, so that the butter side is facing downwards.

Fry on a low heat for 2 ½ minutes with a lid on, brush the upwards facing tortilla with melted butter, flip and fry for another 2 ½ minutes until all the cheese has melted.

Cut into triangles and serve with the “guacamole” and salsa while still hot, then repeat to make a second quesadilla.

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