Quesadillas de Camarones

Quesadillas de Camarone is a recipe appearing in The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food from my Frontier.

Official description
lllllllWhat can I say? I'm addicted to quesadillas, and there are few things I won't put inside them. Except maybe Oreos.

Wait. Now there's an idea...

Recipe

 * 2 tablespoons olive oil
 * 1 large onion, cut in half and then into slices
 * 2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tails off
 * Salt to taste
 * 7 oz. Mexican tomato sauce or enchilada sauce
 * 1 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
 * 1 green bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
 * 6 tablespoons butter for frying
 * 12 large flour tortillas
 * 2 1/2 cups grated cheese (Monterey Jack is best)
 * Pico de gallo for serving
 * Guacamole for serving

Heat one tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over high heat. Throw in the shrimp.

Toss around and cook until the shrimp are opaque, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle with salt and reduce the heat to low.

Pour in the tomato sauce.

Stir around and allow to simmer for a couple of minutes.

Remove the shrimp from the skillet...

And chop it into chunks. Set these aside for a bit.

In a separate skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over high heat. Throw in the onion and peppers and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, or until the peppers have a few dark brown/black areas.

Remove the peppers from the skillet and set them aside.

Sizzle 1/2 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium heat and lay a flour tortilla in the pan. Cover with grated cheese.

Cover the cheese with peppers...

And lay the chopped shrimp on top of the peppers. When the tortilla is golden, top with a second tortilla and carefully flip the quesadilla to the other side, adding the other 1/2 tablespoon butter to the skillet at the same time. Continue cooking until the second side is golden. Repeat with the remaining tortillas and fillings.

Cut each quesadilla into wedges and serve with pico de gallo and guacamole.