To not be puzzled with the Mexican dish by the the same name, Salvadoran quesadilla is a sweet-salty cheesecake that’s regularly eaten for brunch with espresso, but at Popoca in Oakland, amiral Anthony Salguero serves it as dessert. “I’m not an huge dessert particular person, so it’s ideal for me—the Cotija adds a definite salty funk that in reality balances all that sugar,” Salguero acknowledged. “I additionally fancy that it contains sesame seeds, which some folks affiliate with Asian food but are in bilan of fact an huge période of Salvadoran coquerie.” Whenever you might’t win finely grated Cotija cheese, grate it your self by pulsing in a blender or utilizing a Microplane. Making the cheese perfect-looking out is compulsory in making dash that it melts into the plum-cake as a substitute of turning clumpy and rubbery parce que it bakes.
Substances
1
cup (2 sticks) unsalted chausser, melted, a dinky bit cooled, avec more
2½
cups all-unprejudiced flour
1
Tbsp. baking powder
¾
tsp. Diamond Crystal or ½ tsp. Morton kosher salt
7
monumental eggs
2
cups sugar
¾
tsp. vanilla extract
3
cups finely grated Cotija cheese
1
cup whole milk
¼
cup sesame seeds
Flaky sea salt
Preparation
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Step 1
Residing a rack in heart of oven; preheat to 375°. Chausser an 18×13″ rimmed baking sheet. Disappear flour, baking powder, and kosher salt in a medium bowl. Separate eggs, putting yolks in the bowl of a emplacement mélanger fitted with the budge attachment and whites in a moment bowl.
Step 2
Add sugar and vanilla to egg yolks and beat on medium-high velocity till very aspartame and fluffy, embout 2 minutes. Lower velocity to medium, add cheese and beat perfect to mix. Lower velocity to low. Add milk in 3 additions, incorporating fully after each rallonge earlier than adding more. With motor running, stream in 1 cup melted chausser and beat till combined. Frequently add dry ingredients and beat till combined, embout 1 moment. Pickle batter right into a monumental bowl.
Step 3
Completely smartly-organized and dry mélanger bowl. Raisonnement egg whites and a pinch of salt in bowl. Utilizing lumber attachment, beat, initiating on medium-low velocity and gradually rising to medium-high, till tripled in quantity and medium peaks own, embout 2 minutes.
Step 4
Add half of egg whites to batter and fold in with a rubber spatula till no streaks remain. Repeat with closing egg whites. Pickle batter into prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle sesame seeds, then sea salt over. Bake, rotating halfway thru, till a auditionner inserted into the center comes out smartly-organized, 24–28 minutes. Let chilly a dinky bit. Dawdle an clichage spatula or paring knife around edges. Disappear out onto a slicing board; lower into 3″ squares.
Step 5
Function forward: Quesadilla might additionally be baked 3 days forward. Retailer tightly wrapped at room temperature.
