Tasty Bytes: Pupusas

Alex, the Techy Mom, explains how to make a delicious Salvadorean meal called Pupusas. Link to the recipe: http://tasty-bytes.blogspot.com/2009/04/pupusas-salvadorian-stuffed-masa.html Pupusas are a cheese filled tortilla. It is a traditional food eaten in El Salvador all over the country. In the video she also suggests a few tips to make these easier. The full recipe and directions can be found at tasty-bytes.blogspot.com.

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• flat bread
• El Salvador
• Salvadorean
• techy mom
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• gypsy kings
• cheese tortillas
• tortillas

[chu30cho]

como  se hacen las de chicharron?

[alextechymom]

@chu30cho Hola! You know that's a hard one since you would have to buy chicharrones. But if you can get them then you simply just mix them into the pupusa the same way you would the cheese. The re-fried bean pupusas are made the same way.

[HonduranAmerican]

I just want to say, that this a great video. You take us through the process very well. However, I have one question. When you make the masa de maize, how much water do you put? Do you put an equal ammount of harina and water, and the allow the water to soak in, or no? I just don't want to come out with a dry pupusa.

[alextechymom]

@HonduranAmerican Hi. You want the masa to be the consistency of play dough. Not sticky or dry. How much water depends on how much you are making. The recipe I have on my blog might help.

[alextechymom]

Thank you for the kind words. I have posted and made my videos so when my little boys grow up they will have videos to help them make pupusas and my other recipes. I am so glad it has helped you too. I am not very good with the tortilla making either so my mom's bag trick helps me a lot. : ))

[yeni2650]

I like this recipe, I have tried doing them before but they've had came out too thick for my taste, now learning from this video tonight I'll make some for my family and me. Thanks!

[lennette1977]

Thank you sooooo much for posting this video. I have searched over and over for a really good video to show me how to make these. And this is the closest to how my mother in law makes them. I've been trying for ten years to master this, and can't seem to get the hand thing down, and the tortilla flatteners just don't let them come out right. Ty, ty!