A Taste of El Salvador:Arepas vs Pupusas
We had friends over for dinner last night for some Latin American food: pupusas, arroz con "pollo", guacamole, refried beans and pico de gallo. I must be the only one in my family who eats food from 3 or 4 different Latin American countries in one meal. Having been vegetarian for 6 years now it's been ages since I've had arroz con pollo and since I've never been to El Salvador, I've never eaten a pupusa. (The arroz con pollo was made with mock chicken)
Back in November there was a Hispanic Festival in the city and I found a shop where I could buy masa lista (cornmeal flour) for making tortillas, arepas and other cornmeal based things. With just under a month to to here and 2 kilos worth of masa lista I figured I should get cooking!
The pupusa is similar to the venezuelan arepa (see second photo for a look at an arepa), so making them wasn't terribly difficult. Apparenty they eat pupusas all the time in El Salvador and they even have pupuserias, which are shops or stands dedicated to selling pupusas. It's basically a round pancake type deal filled with beans, cheese or anything else. Yum.
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Hmmm it all sounds wounderful :o)
Here in Haiti, they have Acra, a wheat flour that they make into salty donut appetizers. Not bad at all if I may.
How about rice and beans - you expect to have a lot of that?
Oh yeah. Heaps of beans and rice. Heaps :)
pupuserias are everywhere in El Salvador. during certain times of the year you can get them with a green flower called loroco and cheese.
My Salvadoran neighbor makes a yummy bread called Quesadilla. It's like a sweet cheesy cornbread.
Since there is such a gigantic Salvadoran community here in Los Angeles, there are many pupuserias. In fact, ironically I ate a delicious pupusa con chicharron this weekend at a HUGE (Mexican) cinco de mayo celebration downtown. I'm especially a fan of the curtido that is served with them.
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