07/12/2025
🇸🇻 WHERE DO PUPUSAS COME FROM?
✨ PRE-HISPANIC ORIGINS ✨
Pupusas are one of the oldest traditional dishes in El Salvador, with indigenous roots dating back over 2,000 years.
The Pipil people were already making these delights with corn, filling them with beans, izote flowers, or loroco.
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📜 WHERE DOES THE NAME COME FROM?
The word “pupusa” comes from the Nahuatl word “pupusawa,” which means inflated or swollen.
Just like how they look when they’re freshly made!
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🌍 NATIONAL HERITAGE
In 2005, pupusas were declared the National Dish of El Salvador.
And every second Sunday of November is celebrated as National Pupusa Day 🇸🇻💙
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🧀 POPULAR VARIETIES:
• Cheese
• Revueltas (beans, pork crackling, and cheese)
• Beans with cheese
• Loroco with cheese
• Garlic, shrimp, jalapeño, spinach… and many more!
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