Pupusas

Thick corn cakes stuffed with cheese and beans, griddled.

Ingredients

• 3 cups Corn dough flour
• 2½ cups Warm water
• 300 g Fresh white cheese
• 1½ cups Red beans
• 200 g Pork
• 400 g Cabbage
• 1 Carrot
• ½ cup Vinegar
• 1 cup Tomato sauce
• 2 tsp Salt
• 2 tbsp Oil

Method

1. Make the curtido — Blanch the shredded cabbage and carrot, then pack in vinegar with salt and leave at least 3 hours.
2. Make the dough — Mix the corn flour with warm salted water into a soft, non-cracking dough.
3. Prepare fillings — Mash the beans into a paste; grind the cooked pork; grate the cheese.
4. Shape — Take a ball of dough, press a hollow, fill, and close it completely, then flatten gently between wet palms.
5. Griddle — Cook on a hot dry pan for 4 minutes a side until spotted and slightly puffed.
6. Pupusas are ready — Serve with curtido and warm tomato sauce.

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• Sopa de Pata
• Panes con Pollo