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on May 22, 2022

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Pupusas are a famous dish From El Salvador.

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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, put súa means to fill. The first pupusas were vegetarian, t heir 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, tamp...

Yucca pupusas

The traditional specialty in pupusas is the revueltas, made of cheese, beans with cheese or pork rinds; in corn or rice dough. However, in the municipality of Nahuizalco, Sonsonate, the typical dish is the delicious pupusas made from yucca dough, accompanied by tanning and tomato sauce. Although it is not a new product; therefore, it has always been consumed in the aforementioned municipality, it had never been marketed. It was until six years ago, when Doña Alba de Gutiérrez decided to bet on this undertaking. She included the dish in the menu of her business: Ne Tupal, which in Nahuat means "Ours".

Corn Pupusas

Corn pupusas are tortillas made of corn dough stuffed with cheese, pork rinds, beans, or "revueltas", which are the ones with beans, pork rinds and cheese. There is a variety of ingredients with which the pupusas can be filled, they can even be filled with meat, shrimp, chicken, etc. The pupusas are eaten with tanning and natural tomato sauce). The tanning is cabbage, carrot, green chili in vinegar.

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