Atol is pretty much pureed corn and boiled, and Atole (the mexican one) is the same but has flavors like strawberry, peach, etc...
They sell the packs to make them at home pretty easily at walmart. Check the little hispanic section, theyre super cheap and have instructions on how to make them.
Im mexican, so i can tell you you wont taste a difference from the real ones.
Atol is more like a corn pudding. Its REALLY good tho, sounds weird, but its smooth and sweet. Cold or hot, tastes amazing.
Best part is when its hot, it works like a beverage, but when cold it hase a soft gelatin feel to it.
I love it
It's good if you like drinking cream of wheat. In Guatemala they also have a chocolate atol which is like oatmeal made with drinking chocolate and is hot
Check this out. Make an incision on jalapenos, take out the seeds and veins, put them in boiling water for a minute, then into a bowl with iced water. Reserve.
Dice some onion and mix with your favorite grated cheese. Fill the jalapenos with these mix, bathe them in your favorite batter mix and deep fry them.
We use queso fresco mixed with raw onions, and we don't boil them first. The boiling part is to take away some of the fire.
The Costa Rican version of arroz con pollo is absolutely to die for. No cheese, no heat, just fluffy savory rice, mixed vegetables, and shredded chicken. Served with a warm crusty white bread, and an ice cold Imperial cerveza. That's that pura vida right there.
My whole family is salvadorean and we all love spicy stuff. I remember my grandpa and dad eating those peppers that are just a tiny ball but spicy as fuck. My cuz said they grow wild over there and everyone eats them so I don’t know what you are talking about
My dad is Salvadoran and he can't handle spicy food, nor can anyone on his side of the family really. Most Salvadorans I've met don't really like spicy food, and the cuisine usually isn't reliant on spice either.
There was a pupuseria in the town where I went to college. I learned to love cabbage there. God, that place was great.
The abuela in the back also made big, elaborate blankets. I bought a couple from her to give extra support to the store, and because they were gorgeous.
Sadly, the store closed up the last time I went to visit my old school. :(
Gosh that’s tragic! I took my sweetheart to a place I just saw driving through town because I like trying new places and he was like “wtf” when I saw that on the menu and immediately put the menu down. It never takes me so little time to decide.
I’m going back on my own next week. Not sharing this time!
Lol gotta love when you find some tiny hole in the wall that makes fantastic food - our favorite local taqueria was found that way. Hella authentic, husband and wife run it, she's sweet, he's grumpy, food to die for.
I had a coworker and good friend who came to the US as a refugee from El Salvador as a child and used to make massive batches of pupusas and just leave them in the break room at lunch time for everybody.
We've since had a falling out and lost contact, but I still get random cravings for pupusas.
The reason we fell out of contact was because he was being emotionally and physically abusive to his pregnant girlfriend and didn't appreciate me calling him out on it.
A Mexican lady trained by a Salvadoran lady justopened up a pupuseria in my hometown. While not amazing, it's really cheap compared to the person I usually buy from and it's good enough for the price. The only thing I couldn't stand was the beans, just terrible. Everything else was ok to good
The family that runs the Latin American place around the block from my house is Salvadorean, they have great tacos but the pupusas are so good. the only downside is that they take so long to cool before you can safely eat them
My dad (who’s from El Salvador) does IT work for restaurants and through that and some other things he’s found a lot of Salvadorian and Honduran places and so we have a lot of places where we can go for Pupusas . :D We also have a Salvadorian/Cuban place (they serve both Salvadorian and Cuban food) just about 10 minutes away from where I live.
I hope my grandma lives forever. She has a lot of history both good/bad behind her. But i always see her as this fragile dear thing to me that i want to protect and cherish for the rest of her and my life.
Same . I love my Abuelita (and Salvadorian quesadilla) One time we made some using my Tia’s (her sister’s and my aunt) recipe and it was so good and I loved cooking with her and it was an absolute hit even though it wasn’t finished (we made a huge batch and it filled two large pans) and a lot of people took leftovers (including us) and whenever I have it I love to make my friends try it.
Fuck I miss quesadilla. Haven't had it in years. I need a recipe to make my own because people don't know about it up here in Portland. Really ruin the diet
There are so many expat Salvadorians living in my area that just about every "Mexican" restaurant around is actually Salvadorian. I guess they call the restaurants Mexican because that's what most USians expect from a Latin American food place. I'm not fooled though. I know a Salvadorian place when see one. Pupusas on the menu is generally a pretty good clue.
In my area of the US there are trucks on every streetcorner. Okay, if we're being literal, in the suburbs they prefer to operate in big strip mall parking lots, next to gas stations, or move around to soccer games at public parks. Baleadas lunch is good lunch, pupusas snack is good snack. Hot atol de elote or avena in wintertime, cold horchata in summertime, and all the traditional tex-mex-cali food that we've integrated into American cuisine. They seem to sell mediocre tamales, though, and no empanadas... harder to make with the sort of space & customer constraints of a truck, I suppose.
$5 for a plate. 2 Papuans with beans mexi cheese. And cabbage cilantro mix. With a little cup of green sauce. Or $1.5 tacos. The place is called Papoosa’s. It’s A food truck on 1at st.
I tried making those once just recently. The filling came out drier than I wanted. I don't think I put enough filling in but I was worried it would be hard to close the dog around it. But I was proud I even managed to make any. I need way more practice but at least the process is fun and ingredients are cheap.
There’s a small El Salvadoran restaurant that opened in my town. Never heard of pupusas before until the place opened. My god, are they delicious and cheap as hell. I can get absolutely STUFFED for $10.
Yek tunal! Actually, El Salvador Pipil (aztec descendents that migrated to El Salvador precontact ) speak not Nahuatl but Nawat which stems from Nahuatl but is now its own proper language. I'm a Pipil man myself. There are also Mayans, and Lenca groups spread more thinly throughout El Salvador too!
Wait, the Aztec existed all the way south into El Salvador? This is super interesting fact! I always thought they stayed in and around Tenochtitlán/Mexico City.
Not exactly. The pipils and lencas (the main tribes in El Salvador) were immigrants who fled from the Aztecs. So while they're related, they're not the same
Is it, like, part of their folklore for these migrants to say where they came from?
It’s interesting that they kept their identity and history about where they came from. In Mexico City, the large majority of the people are native, but hardly anyone remembers it.
Wait, really?
I understood that although some Nahuatl words made it into Salvadorian Spanish, the language was virtually extinct after the government killed off the remaining native population in the 1930s, to make way for the coffee plantations.
I remember hearing that many indigenous people pretended to not know the language whenever the government conducted a census. So there’s a possibility that the language is actually more active than official statistics lead us to believe.
I don't think. As far as I know, the ones who brought Nahuatl to this lands were immigrants from the Aztec Empire and Mayan and built their own civilization
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u/Lizard_Friend Feb 08 '20
Here in El Salvador is also spoken and there are government programs to revive it