Braised Beef Cheek with Cheese Quesadillas (by G)

I'm all on board with beef cheeks at the moment, they are about the cheapest form of protein available - all you have to invest is time.

I browned these cheeks and then simmered them for a few hours in a sauce created from onion, garlic, tinned tomato, paprika, cumin, coriander, a little vegetable stock and some dried Peruvian yellow chillies that I had chopped, deseeded and soaked in boiling water. I blended the sauce before serving to break down the chunks of chilli.

I had planned to make tortillas from scratch but it had been a trying week so I just  got a packet of the pre-made ones, bunged some cheese in the middle and browned them off. There was also a salsa of tomato, red onion, cucumber and jalapeno with a sprinkle of salt and a squeeze of lemon.

The sauce was not fantastic, though the chillies did add a nice earthiness. The texture of the cheese in the quesadillas was a little odd, kind of grainy.