Salvadoran cuisine
Salvadoran cuisine is a style of cooking derived from the nation of
El Salvador's most notable dish is the
Pollo encebollado is another popular Salvadoran dish that contains chicken simmered with onions. Salvadoran cheeses queso duro (hard cheese), queso fresco (fresh cheese), and cuajada are also eaten with meals.
Two other typical Salvadoran dishes are .
Other well-known Salvadoran dishes include carne guisada (saucy beef with potatoes and carrots), lomo entomatado (beef with tomatoes), carne asada (grilled steak, usually served with a type of Salvadoran salsa called chimol), pasteles de carne (meat pies), pollo guisado con hongos (chicken with mushrooms), pacaya planta (palm flowers breaded in cornmeal, fried and served with tomato sauce), pavo salvadoreño (roast turkey with sauce, often eaten for Christmas), ceviche de camarones (lime-cooked shrimp), and pescado empanizado (breaded, fried fish fillets). Salvadorean chorizo is short, fresh (not dried) and tied into twin sausages.
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Typical Salvadoran breakfast: egg, beans, cream, plantain and chorizo
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The pupusa is aMesoamerican dish of Pipil origin. The oldest direct evidence of pupusa preparations in the world comes from a 1,400-year-old Maya site, Joya de Cerén, in El Salvador.
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Palestinian Salvadoran hummus and pita, Teklebab, Palestinian–Turkish restaurant in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
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Salvadoran chorizo with lime and a dip
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Yuca is eaten fried or boiled with salads, as a side dish or in yuca frita. As with pupusa consumption, the oldest direct evidence of cassava cultivation comes from Joya de Cerén.
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Lorocois a Mesoamerican plant widely used in Salvadoran dishes such as pupusas.
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Izoteflower is a Mesoamerican flower widely used in Salvadoran cuisine. It is often mixed with scrambled eggs or lemon.
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Salvadoran tortillas are a staple of the Salvadoran diet. These are thicker (5 mm) than Mexican tortillas, about 10 cm in diameter.
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Salvadorean-style chorizo
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pumpkin seeds. Alguashte likely has Mayan origins.
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Güisquilfilled with melted cheese
Types of tamales
El Salvador is known for different types of
- Tamales de elote (fresh corn cakes)
- Tamales pisques (tamales stuffed with black beans)
- Tamales de pollo (tamales stuffed with chicken and potatoes)
- Ticucos ("travelers' tamales")
Soups
Soups are popular among Salvadorans of every social level.
Sopa de pata is a soup made from the tripe of a cow, plantain, corn, tomatoes, cabbage and spices, locally a delicacy.
Sopa de res is a soup made from beef shank, beef bone with meat, carrots, plantain, corn, potatoes, zucchini, and many other ingredients.
Gallo en chicha is a soup made with rooster, corn, dulce de tapa, and sometimes other things.
Sopa de pescado is a soup made out of fish or seafood with corn flour, tomatoes, green peppers, cumin, achiote and other ingredients, commonly eaten for the Christian holiday of Good Friday.
Sopa de pollo is a chicken stew with tomatoes, green peppers, guisquil, carrots, potatoes, consommé, and other ingredients.
Sopa de gallina india is a chicken broth with vegetables. Some people add lorocos and cream.
Sopa de frijoles (bean soup) is a red bean soup.
Sopa de chipilin (chipilin soup) is a chicken soup with chipilin leaves and vegetables.
Salpicón de res
Panes rellenos
Panes rellenos (stuffed bread) are warm sandwiches, often made with chicken, carne asada, or turkey. The chicken or turkey is marinated and then roasted with Pipil spices and hand-pulled. This sandwich is traditionally served with tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and watercress.
Desserts
A variety of pan dulces, or pastries, are popular.
Salvadoran desserts include:
- Semita de piña, pineapple preserves sandwiched between layers of pastry (not to be confused with the Mexican cemita)
- queso duro blando (a strong and salty cheese) and topped with sesame seeds (unrelated to the Mexican quesadilla);
- Torta de yema, a pound cake made with wheat flour and flavoured with cinnamon
- Marquesote, a sponge cake flavoured with cinnamon and sometimes anise, served in long rectangular slices
- Salpores, cookies made from rice flour and flavoured with cinnamon, with a short (rich and crumbly) texture
- Poleada or manjar de leche, a white pudding made from milk, cornstarch and sugar, flavoured with vanilla
- Arroz con leche, rice pudding flavoured with anise seed, star anise, or raisins
- Empanadas de platano, torpedo-shaped dumplings of dough made from very ripe plantains, filled with vanilla custard, fried, then rolled in sugar
The dulce de leche of El Salvador has a soft, crumbly texture, with an almost crystallized form.
Fruits are widely consumed, the most popular being mangoes, coconuts, papayas, and bananas. Sometimes fruit with ice cream and cinnamon sprinkled on top is served.
Beverages
Teenagers usually drink cocas (soft drinks) like Coca-Cola, while young and old alike drink coffee, El Salvador's top export. Viejitas,[1] "little old ladies", are biscuits dipped in morning coffee.
A popular soda that originated in El Salvador is
Licuados are like minutas with added fresh fruit and (sometimes) milk. Frescos (short for refrescos) refer to
Tamarindo juice is consumed in all of El Salvador. Coconuts are sold at roadside estansas throughout the country. Typically, they are chopped with machetes and a straw is inserted so that the coconut water can be consumed. Adults drink coconut milk, mixed with vodka, as an aperitif. Vinagre de piña is a drink of trimmed pineapples mixed with panela and water and set aside to ferment for a few weeks or even months.
Alcoholic beverages
The most common alcoholic beverage in El Salvador is beer (cerveza). Popular beers are made by Industrias La Constancia. Established in 2004, with their first bottling in 2015, Ron Cihuatán is El Salvador's only rum distiller.[2]
The national liquor of El Salvador is Tic Tack, a sugar cane distillate. Tick Tack has similar flavors to cachaça.
Seafood
Salvadorans eat a large variety of
Salvadorans also eat fried
See also
References
- ^ Cocinando Con Ingrid (13 November 2014). "VIEJITAS PAN SALVADOREÑO - RECETAS RAPIDAS - recetas de El Salvador". Archived from the original on 2021-12-13 – via YouTube.
- ^ Travel Markets Insider (October 2018). "Ron Cihuatán El Salvador's ambassador to the world". travelmarketsinsider.net. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
External links
- Eating the Salvadoran way
- Bibliography of books on El Salvador cooking, from the Library of Congress (in Spanish)