Pupusas!

This weekend we embarked on an epic mission as we set out to make pupusas for lunch. Pupusas are a traditionally Salvadoran dish that consists of corn tortillas encasing a filling. We filled them all with cheese, but you can put beans, meat or a combination in too. Leo's parents are from El Salvador so it is usually a treat we enjoy with them, but we decided we were going to try and make them ourselves. . .

Beginning at 10 am Charity, Cecilia and Debonney worked to get the dough, cheese filling, and salad all ready to be put together. Mary and I joined in when the ingredients were all ready to start making pupusas.

So the process:

1. Oil your hands so the dough doesn't stick.

2. grab a small ball of dough (just a little smaller than tennis ball size) and roll it into a ball

3. push into the ball so you have a little pot like bowl

4. put the cheese filling in the dough bowl

5. fold the sides all up around the cheese

6. flatten out the ball so that it is a flat tortilla like structure (make sure the cheese remains in the center so it doesn't ooze out and melt when it cooks.)

7. Rub some oil on either side so it doesn't stick

8. Put in on the skillet/pan to cook

9. Let cook until the sides have begun to brown and cheese starts to leak

10. EAT

In the end we finished around 2 pm and had made 106 pupusas. That's a lot of pupusas- if you were wondering. Although we are not quite ready to begin our own restaurant, and have not exactly conquered the feat of keeping the cheese inside ever time, they were delicious and a lot of fun.

Anyways, here are the pictures!

Charity doing the official cooking

 Mary making pupusas :) The left is the cheese filling, the right is the corn tortilla dough.

Pupusas waiting to be cooked

And the best part. . . LUNCH!