These five ingredient Oven Baked Leftover Ham Quesadillas are such an easy, cheesy, kid-friendly dinner idea for leftover ham! You can’t beat a simple 30 minute weeknight meal.
Since many of you will be cooking an Easter ham soon, here’s one way to use up some of the leftovers! Oven Baked Leftover Ham Quesadillas turn a little leftover ham into something just a bit different. Serve these ham quesadillas with salsa, avocado, and/or any other quesadilla faves on Taco Tuesday — or, on any weeknight when you need a quick, kid-friendly meal.
Yes: My Oven Baked Leftover Ham Quesadillas are a little overdone
Let’s add a note here that will hopefully make no sense in a different era, when we’re through with our quarantine cooking. You can see by these photos that my quesadillas are a little over-browned and crunchy on the edges. While we’re at it, the plate could have used a little more garnish (chopped green onion, jalapeño, red salsa, something).
In normal food blogging times, I’d probably cook up a second, more beautiful batch (no worries, the kids would eat the leftovers…) and call this one practice. In April 2020, though: This was my last pack of tortillas and the last of my green onion, and it’s not like I can just pop over to the store for more.
My current cooking reality is also your current cooking reality, right? These still taste good, and I make ham quesadillas all the time with leftover ham…So, we’re just going to go with what we’ve got and reduce the cooking time by a couple of minutes in the final recipe below. Sound good? 🙂
Grow some green onion
Oh, by the way: Not only was this the last of my green onion, it was re-grown green onion! Whenever you use green onions, cut off the bottom root end and leave it in a shallow cup of water on your windowsill, root side down. Change out the water daily, they’ll re-grow, and boom: More green onions. (You can also transplant these to your garden, once they’ve grown some nice roots.) How’s that for buy one, get one free?
Leftover Ham Quesadillas
Ingredients
12 medium flour tortillas
1 cup diced cooked ham
1/3 cup chopped green onion
12 oz shredded cheese (I used cheddar; something like jack will melt even better)
1 Tbsp olive oil
Directions
Chop the ham and green onions. Preheat oven to 425, and spray two rimmed baking sheets with cooking spray.
Place three tortillas on each prepared baking sheet. Add cheddar, ham, green onion, then more cheddar to each.
Top each with a second tortilla, then brush each with olive oil.
Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes, or until nicely browned. (Swap pans between oven racks halfway through.)
Press quesadillas down with a large spatula or pancake turner, if the tortillas have bubbled up. Use kitchen shears to easily cut each quesadilla into quarters. Enjoy with guacamole (or avocado slices), sour cream, and/or salsa.
Note: Do quesadillas come out a bit better in a pan on the stove top? Sure, and you can of course switch over to cooking them that way if you prefer (or if you’re doing a smaller batch). Oven baked quesadillas are intended to resolve the pancakes issue, where one person is stuck at the stove cooking while everyone else gets to eat them hot off of the pan: This is an easy batch cooking way of making quesadillas for a whole family at once.
Leftover ham = Dinner, done
Add some avocado, salsa, sour cream, and a side to make these leftover ham quesadillas into a complete kid-friendly dinner, or cut them up smaller and serve alone as an appetizer or a snack.
Want more “stuff” in your quesadillas? Try adding sauteed bell pepper and/or onion, salsa, or sauteed mushrooms. Build on this basic recipe and customize it to your own preferences. Overall, enjoy! Because right now, we could all use some easy comfort food.
More leftover ham recipe ideas?
Looking for something else to make with that ham? See also: How to make ham in a Crock-Pot, plus five recipe ideas for leftover ham.
Oven baked leftover ham quesadillas, printable recipe
Oven Baked Leftover Ham Quesadillas
Ingredients
- 12 medium flour tortillas
- 1 cup diced cooked ham
- 1/3 cup chopped green onion
- 12 oz shredded cheese I used cheddar; something like jack will melt even better
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Chop the ham and green onions. Preheat oven to 425, and spray two rimmed baking sheets with cooking spray.
- Place three tortillas on each prepared baking sheet. Add cheddar, ham, green onion, then more cheddar to each.
- Top each with a second tortilla, then brush each with olive oil.
- Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes, or until nicely browned. (Swap pans between oven racks halfway through.)
- Press quesadillas down with a large spatula or pancake turner, if the tortillas have bubbled up. Use kitchen shears to easily cut each quesadilla into quarters. Enjoy with guacamole (or avocado slices), sour cream, and/or salsa.
Notes
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Be sure not to miss the free ALDI meal plans, which show you how to use these easy family recipes to meal plan affordably and realistically for your family. Or, find more recipe ideas with the Recipe Search!
Alice
Monday 13th of April 2020
I use my griddle for make multiple quesadillas!
Donna Parsons
Sunday 12th of April 2020
my favorite non-food ALDI find? the planner you recommended; what I've been using