Kids’ Sweet Potato & Corn Quesadillas
with Mango Cups, Carrot Sticks & Chocolate Chips
- Wheat
- Soy
- Milk
With just 10 minutes of prep and 15 minutes of cooking, you’ll have this hearty, kid-pleasing lunch, complete with sides and dessert, ready for now or for later. You’ll fill kid-friendly quesadillas with tender sweet potato, sweet corn, and melty Mexican cheese blend. Fry them to golden perfection in a hot pan, then serve with carrot sticks, diced mango, and a handful of chocolate chips. Serve right away at home, or stash away to pack for school—either way it’s a slam dunk! This recipe is designed to provide lunch for multiple days. For each lunch meal, 3 servings and 6 servings are provided for a 2 person and 4 person box respectively.
Ingredients
1 unit
Sweet Potato
12 ounce
Mango
6 unit
Flour Tortillas
(Contains: Wheat, Soy)
9 ounce
Carrot
1 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
½ cup
Mexican Cheese Blend
(Contains: Milk)
½ unit
Corn
3 ounce
Semisweet Chocolate Chips
(Contains: Soy)
Not included in your delivery
4 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Wash and dry produce. • Peel and dice sweet potato into ½-inch pieces. Place in a large microwave-safe bowl. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. • Microwave sweet potato until tender, 6-8 minutes. Carefully remove plastic wrap (watch out for steam!).
• While sweet potato cooks, drain corn, then pat dry with paper towels. Trim, peel, and cut carrots into sticks (like fries; ours were 3 inches long and 1⁄3 inch thick). • Heat a large drizzle of oil in a large, preferably nonstick, pan over medium heat. Add garlic powder, half the corn (all for 6 servings), salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until corn is warmed through, 3-4 minutes. • Turn off heat. Transfer corn to bowl with sweet potato; mash with a potato masher or fork until combined and sweet potato is mostly smooth. Wash out pan.
• Place tortillas on a clean work surface. Add sweet potato mixture to bottom half of each tortilla; top with Mexican cheese blend. Fold tortillas in half to create quesadillas. • Heat a large drizzle of oil in pan used for filling over medium heat. Add quesadillas and cook until tortillas are browned and cheese melts, 3-4 minutes per side. Transfer to a cutting board. (For 6 servings, you may need to work in batches, adding a drizzle of oil for each batch.)
• To serve: Cut quesadillas into 3 wedges. Divide between plates and serve with mango, carrot sticks, and chocolate chips. • To stash: Let quesadillas cool completely before cutting into 3 wedges. Refrigerate quesadillas, mango, and carrot sticks in separate containers and pack as desired!
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many enjoyed the unique sweet potato and corn combo in quesadillas, though some found it a bit bland.
- Ease of prep: Microwaving sweet potatoes caused issues for several; some ended up with burnt or rubbery results.
- Suggestions: Consider adding black beans for extra flavor. Try dipping quesadillas in BBQ sauce for a tasty twist 🍲.
- Portions: Some felt there wasn't enough sweet potato to make the mash as described.
- Kid-friendly: Most kids loved the meal, especially the quesadillas, though some weren't fans of the carrot sticks.
Reviews from our home cooks
This would have been a really good quesadilla except for the microwave kind of ruined the sweet potatoes. We followed the instructions and even cooked it for less time than recommended but ended up with a dry, hardened mass of burnt sweet potatoes that were unusable in the dish. Also, the recipe promised mango cups but we ended up with pineapple cups, which some of us like. Also, nobody liked the chocolate chips as they were too bitter and we ended up throwing them away.
This combo worked so well. I wouldn't have ever thought to put sweet potato in a quesadilla but it was so good
Would have never guessed these flavors would do so well together. I dipped my quesadillas in Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce. One sweet potato was not enough. Otherwise, I would give this dish four stars
The quesadillas are incredibly delicious. Corn + tortillas + carrots is a little starch heavy, and I thought chocolate chips were a weak addition
Took longer than expected. Did not like the idea of microwaving the sweet potato. Felt like it was missing something. So, added black beans to the quesadilla and it was so much better with that addition.
The quesadillas and the carrots were both dry without anything to dip them into.
I loved the Mango and chocolate chips for the dessert with this
Covering the sweet potatoes in bowl and putting it the microwave for the suggested minutes burned it to a crisp. Maybe it needed to add water in the instructions? Not sure the issue. I used a microwave bowl like mentioned and the instructed minutes.
The cheese was missing but I had some salsa con Queso which I feel made this taste better
Swap the chocolate chips for something like cherry tomatoes, and I'd rate this one four stars.
