Pupusas are the nationally famous dish of El Salvador, enjoyed any time of day and stuffed with a delicioso range of savory fillings. Sold almost everywhere they go back home, Salvadoreans love pupusas so much they\u2019ve even designated a national holiday for the masa harina-stuffed treat. The Central American nation celebrates National Pupusa Day on the second Sunday of November every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because we love pupusas here at Familia Kitchen, we asked one of our favorite Salvadorean homecooks, Estela Medrano Benitez<\/a> (check out her delicioso pollo en pinol<\/a>, made for special occasions and Salvadorean holidays), to show us how to make her favorite pupusa. Below is her recipe for cheese pupusas or pupusas de queso, which we plan to make regularly and especially every second Sunday in November.
Estela explains that she always fills her pupusas with cheese because they are her family\u2019s absolute favorite. Other popular pupusa stuffings include:
\u2022 cheese and beans,
\u2022 cheese and chicharron (pork rinds),
\u2022 cheese and loroco<\/a> (a native Central American climbing vine with edible flowers. Loroco tastes something like artichoke or asparagus),
\u2022 cheese and chicken<\/p>\n\n\n\n