Pupusa de Chicharron
A pupusa is a stuffed corn-tortilla, usually served with a spicy coleslaw called curtido.
Pupusas are hand-made and thick. Like all corn tortillas, they are made using masa harina. They originate from El Salvador.
This is not true to the original which uses pork rinds. This slightly healthier version is stuffed with a bacon tomato and green pepper mixture
| Pupusa de Chicharron | |
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| Cheese pupusa with curtido | |
| Servings: | Serves 8 - Will fill about 8 pupusa |
| Calories per serving: | 61 |
| Ready in: | 2 hours 20 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 2 hours |
| Cook time: | 20 minutes |
| Difficulty: | 
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| Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
| First published: | 27th October 2012 |
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Best recipe reviewHard work 4/5 Lots of work for street food. |
Ingredients
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- 8 rashers bacon
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 4 tomatoes
- 1 green bell pepper
- Ghee or olive oil for frying
Method
- Fry the crushed garlic for a minute in the hot ghee or oil
- Fry the bacon until cooked, but not crisp
- deseed and finely chop the green pepper
- Grind or blend the bacon and tomatoes into a rough paste
- Stir in the chopped peppers
- Make the tortillas as shown here, but don't cook them yet
- Divide the mixture into balls, slightly larger than golf-balls and place each ball in the centre of the tortilla and press the mixture out, leaving a gap around the edge
- Cover with another tortilla and press together to seal
- Heat a griddle pan or heavy frying pan and wipe over with a lightly oiled kitchen towel
- Cook each pupusa until it is nicely toasted. This will take about 4 minutes a side
- Keep warm while you cook the remaining pupusas
Serving suggestions
Serve with curtido
Variations
Make the pupusas with a combination of this, refried beans and the filling for Cheese pupusas
Chef's notes
See also
- Tortillas: - Encyclopaedic page describing all variants of tortillas
- South American tortilla recipes - :
- Corn tortilla recipe - make them from scratch with masa harina
- Corn tortillas - a Thermomix recipe
- Wheat flour tortilla recipe
- Gorditas - Thick Mexican tortillas
- Quick tortillas - a recipe idea for using left over tortillas
- Burrito (or taco de harina) explained
- Minced beef burritos - A burrito recipe
- Enchiladas - a recipe and an explanation
- Chicken enchiladas
- Cheatin' chicken enchiladas a quick version of the above
- Quick beef enchiladas
- Honduran Enchiladas, This is a typical dish from Honduras
- enfrijoladas, a similar dish to enchiladas
- Pulled pork enchiladas - a nice pork recipe made using meat from Jamie Oliver's Overnight Slow Roast Pork Joint
- Homemade tortilla chips - Make superb tortilla chips from soft corn tortillas - better than anything you could buy!
- Cheese nachos - A cheese nacho recipe
- Frito pie - If you like Tex-Mex, you'll love this
- Easy frito pie - Make Frito pie-on the hoof!
- Minced beef for tacos - A Mexican spicy beef taco filling recipe
- Memphis BBQ pulled duck tacos - A duck variation on the same theme
- Sincronizada recipe - A Mexican speciality that can alos be found all over South America
- Quesadillas - A selection of quesadilla recipes
- Dobladas - Stuffed tortillas from Guatemala
- Enfrijoladas recipe - tortillas stuffed with re-fried beans and spices
- Chilaquiles - a fabulous recipe from two Mexican visitors
- Tostadas de guacamole y crema - A famous Diana Kennedy recipe
- Cheese pupusas - a stuffed tortilla from El Salvador
- Pupusa de Chicharron - similar to pupusas, again from El Salvador
- Spicy lamb tortillas - A recipe idea taken from crispy duck pancakes
- Duck fajitas - and a similar version, with crispy duck
- Gressingham Memphis Barbecue Pulled Duck - Commercially available pre-prepared pulled duck
- Spanish tortilla recipes:
- Capricorn, pea and mint tortilla - A Spanish-style tortilla with goats' cheese
- Potato and goats' cheese tortilla - Another Spanish-type with goats' cheese
- Tortilla Española - A Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla capuchina - another Spanish tortilla
- Tortilla 'batatas harras' - A spicy Spanish tortilla
- Beef Skirt Steak Fajitas - Fajitas, using Taste Sensation spice mix
- Squash, halloumi and chilli omelette - Spicy, with squash & Greek cheese
- Omelettes - Many omelette recipes
- Misc. tortilla recipes:
- Potatoes as a garnish or for tortillas (TM) - A Thermomix recipe
- Baked squash filled with melted Camembert cheese - Where taco shells are used to dish up the melted cheese
- Ingredients:
- Taco shells
- Tex-Mex seasoning - Home-made Old India Taco Seasoning recipe
- Old India Taco Seasoning - The commercial variety is very good too
- Tortilla chips - Snacks/crisps.
- Taste Sensation Cajun Seasoning
- Taste Sensation fajita seasoning
- Taste Sensation harissa seasoning
- Taste Sensation Italian seasoning
- Taste Sensation Jalapeno and Lime Seasoning
- Taste Sensation Mexican seasoning
- Taste Sensation piri piri seasoning
- Tools:
- Tortilla press - The device and also a great tip for making them without a press!
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