Stuffed Corn Griddle Cakes with Refried Beans, Cheese and Cabbage Relish
By Joe
Source: Serious Eats — Lauren Rothman, Cheese and Bean Pupusas (Salvadoran Stuffed, Griddled Tortillas) With Cabbage Slaw.
A cheese and bean pupusas (salvadoran stuffed, griddled tortillas) with cabbage slaw recipe for 15 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
Always check the labels of the products you use.
Method
- 1
Work the dough. Roll masa dough into 15 golf-ball-sized balls using wet hands. Put balls on a baking tray plus cover using a moist towel. Working using one ball after another, use your thumb to push a deep indent in the ball, next use your hands to work it into a little "bowl" with a 5–6 mm-thick edge. Put around 1 heaping tablespoon refried beans in the bottom of the "bowl," next top with around 1 heaping tablespoon shredded cheese. With care bring dough edge together, enclosing the filling within, plus push to close using moist fingers. Roll the ball in your hands in order to return it to a even ball shape. With care pat pupusa down in a flat round around 10 cm wide and around 1.9 cm thick; if edges crack, run a wet finger round them to smooth them. Put pupusas on a baking tray plus hold covered using a towel as you work. Repeat using leftover masa balls and fillings. Gently coat a big cast iron skillet with oil and heat over a mid-sized flame till shimmering. Working a batch after another, add pupusas and fry, turning once, till well-browned and crisp, around 4 minutes per side. Tip off the liquid pupusas on a paper towel-lined plate, next move them to plates and top with curtido. Offer with hot sauce and lime wedges, if wanted.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
Free sugars
0 g per serving
0 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 0 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
Approximate: no weight for recipe Perfect Refried Beans , cooled; recipe masa dough; recipe quick curtido, so it is not in the total. No nutrition labels are shown for this recipe until it is fixed.
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 48 kcal |
| Protein | 3.5 g |
| Carbohydrate | 0.4 g |
| of which sugars | 0 g |
| of which free sugars | 0 g |
| Fat | 3.5 g |
| of which saturates | 2.2 g |
| Fibre | 0 g |
| Salt | 0.19 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
7.3 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values


