My friend Anna was here and she showed me how to make several dishes that are popular in her household from her home country of El Salvador. She shared recipes for Pastelitos, Pupusas, Crutido and Salsa, teaching me how to create each right in my own kitchen.
This spicy Salvadoreno coleslaw is the traditional zesty topping for pupusas (thick corn tortillas stuffed with cheese). You can also try serving it with fish or black beans, inside burritos or on top of quesadillas.
If you want something new to liven up your cooking life, try this collection of 30 traditional Salvadoran recipes, including pupusas, semita, and more!
Salvadorean Plantain Empanadas with Milk Filling
Visiting the local markets in El Salvador and tasting all of the traditional El Salvadoran foods remains one of the highlights of my visit - and I hope you will feel the same after reading this guide to all of the typical foods in El Salvador!
A basic pupusa dough is stuffed with a mixture of cheese, cream, and scallions and topped with pickled cabbage in this Salvadorean recipe.
A type of naturally gluten free corn cake, filled with everything from beans to pork and beef, or just with cheese, pupusas are easy to make with plenty of masa harina corn flour, water, and a pan!
Do not confuse this Salvadorian Quezadilla, a rich, cakey cheese bread, with the Mexican appetizer, quesadilla. This recipe comes from the small village of Rosario de La Paz in El Salvador. Flavored with Parmesan-type cheese, queso seco, and sprinkled with crunchy sesame seeds, it’s a delicious blend of sweet and savory. Enjoy it by itself or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a hot cup of coffee.
Quesadilla Salvadoreña is a gluten-free cheese pound cake that is enjoyed throughout El Salvador with a cup a coffee for breakfast or as a snack.
Latin American chilean food. Traditional chilean cazuela de cerdo with chuchoca. Pork soup with potatoes, pumpkin. corn served in clay bowl from Pomaire.
A fresh, crunchy slaw, typically served with the classic Salvadoran dish pupusas, curtido brings a brightness to anything it touches.
An easy to make starter recipe, side dish, or vegetarian snack. Yucas fritas, yuquitas fritas, or fried cassava. However you call it, it's delicious.
Here's a recipe for authentic pupusas, the popular Salvadorean stuffed-and-fried treat, with two beloved toppings: salsa roja and curtido.
This is a step-by-step on how to make pupusas! This recipe hails from El Salvador and is made by mixing corn flour with water and salt. It's topped with a quick pickled cabbage slaw called curtido.
Ingredients: 2 cups rice 6 cups water 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla Directions: Soak the rice overnight in 3 cups of the water. Add the rice, soaking water and cinnamon to …
Casamiento is the Salvadoran version of the ever-popular combination of rice and beans. Easy to put together and so versatile, you can serve this with anything!
Salvadorean Pupusas are pillowy bean and cheese-stuffed corn tortillas.
A sweet and silky-smooth sip of Central America.
Budin de pan con guineo
If you are tired of the same french fries for lunch, here is a great swap: cassava fries with mojito sauce.
Arepas, soft and so tasty, perfect to stuff with your favorite ingredients! It's a simple recipe made with 3 ingredients in just 30 minutes.
These Salvadoran pupusas are basically stuffed flatbread with pork and cheese, which make for a great snack, appetizer or entree.
Salvadorean Pupusas are pillowy bean and cheese-stuffed corn tortillas.
Salvadoran curtido is a lightly fermented cabbage relish. It's a salty, tangy, refreshing and delicious condiment and can be served with pupusas, tacos, bowls or more!
Curtido is a tarty, coleslaw-like Salvadoran side that accompanies pupusas, yuca or even tortilla soup. It resembles fermented sides like sauerkraut or kimchi. It can be substituted for coleslaw; i…
Lime Curtido recipe taken with permission from Beyond Canning by Autumn Giles. How to make this vegan black bean pupusa recipe with step-by-step instructions on fermenting your own lime curtido to serve with them!
Carne Deshilada
Quesadilla Salvadoreña is a traditional Salvadoran sweet cheese bread. Really easy to make and so great with a cup of tea or coffee!
The weather here has been far away from tropical but I wanted some summer flavours so I made my version of Bobby Flay’s Grilled Plantains with Rum-Brown Sugar Glaze. Two years ago I had plantains for the first time and was very impressed, so glad I allowed myself something new. It was more of a savoury application, […]
Tasty Stuffed Tortillas from El Salvador A staple of Salvadoran cuisine, pupusas are handmade, stuffed corn tortillas. Savory, flavor-packed pupusas Salvadoreñas are traditionally filled with beans, cheese, and pork. This pupusas recipe is especially easy, made with GOYA® Masarica Instant Corn Masa Flour, and stuffed with a choice of GOYA® Refried Red Beans (Volteados Style) and white cheese. Pupusas are served with a tangy pickled cabbage salad.;
This is a condiment served with almost any meal in El Salvador, goes great with tamales and pupusas!
Indulge in a sweet Salvadoran treat that only requires 7 ingredientsThis recipe is not for those that don't consume sugar. If that's you, abort! Now if it's just us, the ones that once in a while indulge in something sweet... let me tell you about this recipe. Nuegados Salvadoreños de yuca is one of my two favorite Salvadoran desserts, the second is Empanadas de platano. My mom and my tias have made these since I can remember, and they are best served freshly fried and topped with this brow suga
Pupusa Recipe - a simple step by step guide to making griddled Salvadoran Corn cakes filled with refried beans and cheese with cilantro and scallions. Easy and delicious! Vegan adaptable!
These plantains are simple, quick and easy to make and delicious. In Colombia Plátanos Calados or Plátanos en Tentación are eaten as a side dish or dessert with fresh white cheese.
Cookbook author Alicia Maher shares her favorite Salvadoran dessert recipe
Don’t expect cheese and tortillas. Instead, think poundcake. Think party food. Think happy mornings, popping a few too many quesadillas in your mouth. In El Salvador they eat rich, buttery quesadillas in the morning with a big cup of coffee and I suggest you do the same. You’ll love the slight crunch of the sesame seeds in combination with the sweet/salty cake. I’m proud to say that this recipe was awarded First Place in food52‘s Gluten-Free Baking Competition. Best served with dulce de leche and a cloud of whipped cream.
Encontraras diferentes recetas para cada ocasión. Cocina algo diferente cada día y deleita de tus platillos. Recuerda cocinar con amor.
This is a succulent way to cook beef, perfection!
