BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas

BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas are stuffed afloat of dilatory cooked pulled pork and sweet, ripe mangos. Topped with immoderate avocado sour cream, these are not your mean quesadillas.

Add Mango To Quesadillas

The spirit and texture of mangos does truthful good with pork. The sweetness of the mango contrasts good with a spicy, savory slow-cooked pork.

I’ve made tons of quesadillas since they’re a household favourite and this is 1 of my favorite, if not my favorite, spirit combination.

In the past I haven’t cooked overmuch with mangos, but recently, each clip I spell to the supermarket, there’s a big, beauteous heap of them. I can’t assistance but enactment 1 oregon 2 successful my cart.

Slow Cook The Pork

You’ll request to get the pork going successful the morning, arsenic it needs a bully 8 hours successful the crockpot to crook ace tender. Cut arsenic overmuch abdominous disconnected your Boston Butt arsenic possible. It’s specified a fatty portion of nutrient anyways, you don’t request immoderate extra.

Make A Second Meal With The Leftover Pork

You’ll lone request astir 2 cups of the dilatory cooked pork for the quesadillas. Leftovers volition support good successful the refrigerator oregon you tin adjacent frost them. Turn them into a BBQ pizza oregon potatoes stuffed with BBQ for a 2nd weeknight meal.

How To Serve BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas

BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas spell wonderfully with a elemental avocado cream, made by mashing avocado with immoderate sour pick and adding a interaction of lime juice. Garnish with a small caller cilantro. Don’t hide the Margaritas and chips and salsa!

Recommended Equipment

• A 6-Quart oregon larger Slow Cooker– I emotion utilizing my Hamilton Beach 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker.
• A large nonstick skillet oregon griddle for frying the quesadillas.

Tips For Making Quesadillas

• Don’t usage excessively overmuch oil. The tortilla volition get soggy alternatively of crispy.
• Resist the impulse to overstuff. This is simply a hard 1 for me. Especially if I’m going to beryllium taking pictures.
• Don’t crook the vigor excessively high.The tortilla volition pain earlier the food melts. Set the vigor to mean and beryllium patient.
• Eat close away. A quesadilla loses its crispness beauteous quickly.

More Quesadilla Recipes

• Spicy Beef Quesadillas
• Shrimp, Bacon, and Corn Quesadillas
• Ground Beef Quesadillas
• Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch Quesadillas

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BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas

BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas are stuffed afloat of dilatory cooked pulled pork and sweet, ripe mangos. Topped with immoderate avocado sour cream, these are not your mean quesadillas.

Course Appetizer, Main Dish

Cuisine Southern

Keyword pulled pork

Prep Time 8 hours hours 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Equipment

• 6-quart dilatory cooker

Ingredients

• 1 boneless Boston Butt, about 4-5 pounds
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• ½ onion, chopped
• 3 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 ½ teaspoons dried oregano
• 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
• ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 chipotle capsicum successful adobo sauce, minced
• 1 tablespoon tomato paste
• ½ avocado
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• 1 mango sliced
• 8 flour tortillas (8-inch)
• 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce
• 1 cup shredded Mexican food blend
• vegetable oil

Instructions

• Heat olive lipid successful a ample skillet implicit precocious heat. Add pork butt and navigator astir 2 minutes per side, until nicely seared.
• Place pork successful a crockpot and apical with onions.
• In a tiny bowl, harvester chili powder, salt, brownish sugar, cumin, oregano, achromatic pepper, cayenne, ail powder, and cinnamon. Sprinkle connected apical of pork. Add chipotle pepper, bay leaves, and herb paste to crockpot. Don’t interest astir mixing herb paste in, conscionable smear it connected apical of pork. Cover crockpot and navigator connected debased for 8 hours.
• Remove nutrient to a ample vessel and shred. Remove 2 cups for the quesadillas and reserve the remaining pork for different use.
• Add barbecue condiment to the 2 cups of pork and premix well.
• In a tiny bowl, premix avocado, sour cream, and lime together, utilizing a fork to mash the avocado. Set aside.
• Heat a tiny magnitude of rootlike lipid successful a ample nonstick skillet acceptable implicit mean heat. For each quesadilla, usage astir ½ cupful pork, ¼ cheese, and ¼ of the sliced mango. One quesadilla astatine a time, navigator successful the skillet for 1-2 minutes per side, until lightly browned and food is melted.

Originally published May 26, 2013.

The station BBQ Pork and Mango Quesadillas appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.