Papusas
Many times this year I have had students bring me home cooked, Mexican meals, which has helped me learn more about my students' culture. Students have a sense of pride in teaching me about food that they have grown up eating their whole lives. It has also helped me connect with parents in ways that I have not before. Many of my students' mothers will selling food, either out of their homes, on carts after school, or in restaurants. One food that I am often gifted is the pupusa.
Pupusas are a traditional dish from El Salvador. Pupusas are corn tortillas with a filling - usually cheese (pupusas de queso), beans, and/or Salvadoran-style chicharrón (finely ground pork). A pupusa revuelta has all three fillings. Pupuasas are cooked on a griddle, and served with a pickled cabbage slaw called curtido and thin tomato sauce (salsa roja).
Though pupusas resemble arepas, the dough for pupusas is made with nixtamalized (alkaline treated) corn, which gives them the same distinctive nutty corn flavor that tortillas and tamales have.
Pupusas are a traditional dish from El Salvador. Pupusas are corn tortillas with a filling - usually cheese (pupusas de queso), beans, and/or Salvadoran-style chicharrón (finely ground pork). A pupusa revuelta has all three fillings. Pupuasas are cooked on a griddle, and served with a pickled cabbage slaw called curtido and thin tomato sauce (salsa roja).
Though pupusas resemble arepas, the dough for pupusas is made with nixtamalized (alkaline treated) corn, which gives them the same distinctive nutty corn flavor that tortillas and tamales have.
