pupusa
Sign in to saveA pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador and Honduras made with cornmeal or rice flour stuffed with one or more ingredients including cheese, beans, , or squash. It can be served with and tomato sauce and is traditionally eaten by hand. Pupusas have origins in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica but were first mentioned in 1837 by Guatemalan poet José Batres Montúfar. In El Salvador, the pupusa is the national dish and has a day to celebrate it.
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- Pupusa
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- Several pupusas on a plate
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- Several prepared pupusas
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- Central America
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- Hot
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- Corn or rice flourFillings (e.g. meat, cheese, beans, vegetables)
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- 350
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A pupusa is a thick griddle cake or flatbread from El Salvador and Honduras made with cornmeal or rice flour stuffed with one or more ingredients including cheese, beans, , or squash. It can be served with and tomato sauce and is traditionally eaten by hand. Pupusas have origins in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica but were first mentioned in 1837 by Guatemalan poet José Batres Montúfar. In El Salvador, the pupusa is the national dish and has a day to celebrate it.
== Etymology == The origin of the term pupusa is unknown. The '', published by the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, states that pupusa'' derives from the Nawat word (spoken by the Pipil people) meaning "fluffy" or "fluffy thing". In Lidia Pérez de Novoa's book Interlude and Other Verses, she believed that pupusa derives from the Nawat word meaning "to puff up". Ricardo Ernesto Roque, a professor at the Central American University in San Salvador, supported this etymology.