Let's Make Pupusas!

Written by Bessie about El Salvador. Feelin' normal

Kyle and I teach ESL 3 days a week to the teachers at an elementary school, and one kind woman invited us to dinner at her brother's pupusa restaurant where she is a juicer extraoirdinaire. Alicia has been a teacher for 31 years, and did more than have us for dinner, she taught me how to make it!

First, you have to not be shy to say Pupusas = pooh-poos-uhhs. Super fun to say. They are every Salvadoran's favorite food. It's basically a super thick tortilla with goodies melted inside: cheese, chorizo (spiced meat), refried beans, you name it, put it in there!

Second, there's a bucket of water to wash your hands.

Bessie Making a Pupusa

Third, ball up tortilla mix in your hands, and slap it back and forth like you know what you're doing.

Next, put meat and cheesey stuff on it.

Bessie Making a Pupusa

Then, pull the sides up to cover all the flavory goodness and flatten.

Grill & eat!

That's Bessie's Pupusa

They're calorie & fat free!

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June 11, 2008 kyle: By calorie free, do you mean health free?

June 12, 2008 mumsie: Sounds and looks delicious! AND fun to make, si? Your meal makes the dinner I'm cooking this very minute look downwright Dull. Slap out a plate for me --- I'll be there in 10 minutes!

June 16, 2008 Bessie: haa haaa, maybe someday I'll have it in me to make my very own tortillas & just maybe some pupusas :)

June 12, 2008 Den Sue Czurylo: They have all the food groups. A glass of red wine and your ready to go!

June 16, 2008 Bessie: haa haa! I like the way you think!

June 13, 2008 Nancy: Quit it. You're making me hungry. I'll have to get some tortilla mix and try my hand at pupusas!

June 15, 2008 kyle: el salvadorians are one of the major populations in dc... some EXCELLENT pupusas there, although i'm sure the ones from the back of a truck aren't as delicious as fresh ones. (this is lauren, by the way. i'm too lazy to sign out of kyle's thing.)

June 16, 2008 Bessie: nice! I'm impressed you know pupusas! I can't say that I've seen any in Chicago. We'll have to go hunting for some out of a truck. It just has a nice ring to it - pupusas from a truck - yumm.

June 16, 2008 Linda: Bessie....I assume the finger pointing is to the one made personally by your own little hands....if so....great shape.....I think you have a future in this culinary field. I am a little curious about the wormy-looking things in the green capped jar in the next photo however!

June 16, 2008 Bessie: that is my pupusa on the grill! The stuff in the jar is some pickled cabbage, carrots, etc. all diced up.

Kyle and I, brave as we get with street food, we draw the line at topping type stuff in jars. I'm on the anti-stomach amoeba plan.

June 26, 2008 Henry: MMMMM pupusas, Planes de Renderos makes one of the best pupusas, con curitdo en salsa de tomarte, it just makes me hungry.

June 26, 2008 Kyle: To be honest until we had the pupusas above, I wasn't a fan. I guess you just have to find the right ones. Where is this Planes de Renderos place?

June 30, 2008 Bessie: I think it's Los Planos - if not everyone has been telling us to go to Los Planos, up on the hills somewhere where all the vendors are. Hopefully we get up there soon!

Let's Make Pupusas!

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