History of The Pupusas.

The Pupusas are the most famous dish in Salvadoran gastronomy. Recently, according to the TasteAtlas ranking, pupusas are the best-rated dish in Latin America.

Dr. Ramón Rivas, National Director of Cultural Heritage, affirms that the origin of the pupusas was before the arrival of the Spaniards in American lands and that the word pupusa comes from the Nahuat (pupushagua), which means inflation and by extension tortilla fill.

Later, Doctor Manuel Bonilla Alvarado, a specialist in Nahuat, says that the origin of the word pupusa has two ethnolinguistic meanings: "PUP" which means scrambled, and the word "TSA" means bulge; when translated into spanish, it would be stuffed bulge, mixed bulge, or bulky mess and that in Nahuat, putsúa means to fill.

The first pupusas were vegetarian, their shape was a half-moon.

As ingredients they had: ayote flower, tender buds of ayote bush, ayote, suckling pig buds, puerquito, cochinito or tunquito, chipilín flower, blackberry, tampupo, (known as papelillo or San Nicolás), mushrooms, and salt.