Quick Look at this Cheeseburger Quesadilla Recipe
- Recipe Name: Cheeseburger Quesadillas
- Ready In: 30 minutes
- Serves: 8
- Calories: 397 per serving
- Main Ingredients: Ground beef, sharp cheddar cheese, flour tortillas, and special sauce.
- Dietary Info: Can be made gluten-free and dairy-free.
- Why You’ll Love It: These are smash burger-style using my Blackstone Smash Burgers as inspiration, I’ve mashed up two of my family’s favorites into one easy meal. Plus, it can easily be customized with your favorite flavors.
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Key Ingredients & Substitutions
Be sure to see the recipe card below for a full listing of ingredients, instructions, and estimated nutritional information.
- Ground Beef: Can be swapped for ground chicken or ground turkey.
- Cheddar Cheese: This is one of the best melting cheese thanks to it’s composition of fat, protein, and moisture. Make this dairy-free by using dairy-free cheese.
- Tortillas: Sub flour tortillas for corn tortillas, but be sure to warm them in the microwave first to prevent them from cracking when folded.
- Special Sauce: Our burger sauce really completes this meal, but feel free to swap with a store-bought version.
How To Make A Quesadilla Burger
Step 1: Brown ground beef, drain grease, and add in seasonings and onion.
Step 2: Stir meat mixture until fully combined.
Want More Flavor?
Then mix in some of our homemade burger seasoning to the meat mixture. We packed in all the essential spices to level up your filling.
Step 3: Add tortilla, half a cup of shredded cheese, 1 cup of meat mixture, and a drizzling of burger sauce and let warm.
Step 4: Fold the tortilla and flip. Cook until the tortilla is golden brown and crispy and the cheese is fully melted..
Step 5: Remove from skillet, cut, and enjoy using that burger sauce for dipping!
What To Serve With Cheeseburger Quesadillas
If you’re feeding a crowd or just new a few more components on the table, make up a batch of our Mexican street corn salad or our purple cabbage coleslaw. Finish it all off with our easy skinny margarita recipe and some monster cookie magic bars to wow the crowd.
Cheeseburger Quesadilla Variations
The real simple cheeseburger quesadilla uses classics like burger sauce and a few burger pickles. Make the deluxe version be adding chopped lettuce, diced tomatoes and classic condiments like ketchup and mustard. Make it a bacon cheeseburger quesadilla by adding some chopped bacon to the mix. Using our Blackstone Philly Cheesesteak as inspiration, experiment with white American cheese and sautéed green peppers.
Recipe FAQs & Tips
What sauce is good for cheeseburger quesadillas?
This quick and easy 5-minute burger sauce is our favorite, but any condiments like ketchup or mustard would do.
What exactly is a cheeseburger quesadilla
A cheeseburger quesadilla is a quesadilla infused with cheeseburger flavors like ground beef, cheddar cheese, and burger pickles.
What goes on a quesadilla burger?
Burger pickles, burger sauce, bacon, onions, lettuce, and diced tomatoes would all be great toppings.
Cheeseburger quesadillas are best enjoyed right off the skillet, but store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to three days. To reheat, place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place them in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
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Ingredients
Special Sauce:
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon dill pickles, finely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon pickle juice
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce, sub coconut aminos for gluten-free
- 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
Cheeseburger Quesadillas:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup sweet yellow onion, diced
- 8 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
- 8 regular “taco-sized” flour tortillas
- burger pickles
Instructions
- Sauce: Put all of the burger sauce ingredients in a small bowl; mix to fully combine.
- Ground Beef: Bring a large cast iron skillet to a medium-high heat and add the ground beef. Break apart and move around the pan to fully brown. Drain off excess grease. Add diced onion, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Move around hot pan and cook until onion softens. Set aside on a paper towel-lined plate.
- Make Quesadilla: Return the large skillet to a medium high heat and place one tortilla in the pan to warm. Add about 1/2 cup shredded cheese to one half of the tortilla, top with a small amount of burger sauce, add about 1 cup of the ground beef mixture, and then fold the other half of the tortilla over the filling ingredients. Let warm enough for the cheese to melt and the outside to become a nice, golden brown.
- Serve: Carefully remove the quesadilla from the pan, cut into triangles, and serve with pickles, burger sauce, and any other favorite toppings!
Notes
- Dairy Free: simply use a dairy-free alternative cheese in the quesadilla burger.
- Gluten Free: swap out the soy sauce for coconut aminos in the sauce and use gluten free tortillas.
- More Flavor: option to add even more flavor to the ground beef mixture by adding our burger seasoning.
- Toppings: we kept this recipe card simple with a homemade burger sauce and pickle chips, but feel free to add chopped lettuce, tomatoes, red onion, or any other burger toppings.
- Storage: leftover quesadillas can be stored in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Laura says
I recently discovered your page and this is the third recipe of yours that I have tried. All three have been hits! I made it almost exactly as written except I used 50/50 American and cheddar cheese, and seasoned the ground beef with my favorite burger seasoning (Montreal steak). The result was perfect, delicious, and indulgent. My husband especially loved the meal and is going to want me to make it again. Win!!
Erin Jensen says
Thank you so much, Laura!! I appreciate the feedback – so happy to hear you have been enjoying the recipes!
Brittani says
Delicious! Definitely adding into the rotation. That sauce is delicious!
Erin Jensen says
Yay! So glad to hear that, Brittani!
Liz says
My kids absolutely loved this one! Such a nice change from the standard dinner menu. Will be on repeat for sure.
B says
Love this fun idea! Even the kids love it!
Erin says
Yay!!!