Street food from El Salvador: pupusas
Love tacos, arepas and tortillas? Then we have a new variation for you: pupusas from El Salvador. Pupusas look like tortillas, but the dough is filled and then baked. This makes them the ultimate grab-and-go food for lunch or a snack, as you can simply eat them by hand.
This street food from El Salvador is a thick, round and filled tortilla. They look like arepas, but the difference is that pupusa dough is filled. Think of the shape of a pita, but the texture of a tortilla. The filling consists of various ingredients such as ground pork, refried beans or cheese. Or all three fillings—you can experiment with them yourself. Pupusas are traditionally eaten with curtido, a fermented spicy slaw.
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Not difficult
The dough is made from cornmeal, salt and water. You make a ball from the dough and flatten it, fill it with the ingredients, seal it and flatten it again. Did the dough tear? Just patch it up with a little more dough. Then fry the pupusas in a pan so the cheese melts, resulting in delicious melted strands of cheese when you tear open the pupusa.
How to make them yourself
Arepas are already making their debut in the Netherlands; you can find them at these addresses. Pupusas are still hard to find, but you can easily make them yourself by following this recipe. Or watch the sweet video below, in which Curly and his abuelita (grandmother) make pupusas.
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