Pupusas with beans and cheese
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for lunch
- Good for dinner
Less suited for breakfast, as a snack.
Twelve smaller Salvadoran corn cakes filled with black beans and queso fresco, three per serving, with cabbage slaw.
4 servingsFinal yield 1,710 g
Ingredients
- 500 gCorn flour, masa, enriched, white
- 320 gBeans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt
- 200 gCheese, fresh, queso fresco
- 180 gCabbage, raw
- 80 gCarrots, raw
- 80 gOnions, raw
- 500 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
- 4 gSalt, table
Method
- Mix masa flour with 420 g water and salt into pliable dough and rest 10 minutes.
- Mash beans with half the onion; shred cabbage and carrot and toss with remaining onion and 80 g water.
- Shape the dough into twelve balls of about 77 g, fill each with about 47 g of beans and cheese and flatten into a cake about 1 cm thick (about 124 g raw).
- Cook the cakes on a dry pan at 190 °C in three batches of four, 4 minutes per side, until golden and hot inside.
- Serve hot, three cakes per serving, with the cabbage slaw.
Recipe tradition
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 2,945.2 kcal
- Protein
- 110.8 g
- Fat
- 68.3 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 490.4 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 67.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 29.1 g
- Sodium
- 3,191.3 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 8 g
Per serving
- Protein27.7 g15%
- Fat17.1 g20%
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)122.6 g65%
Share of energy from protein, fat and carbohydrate (4 / 9 / 4 kcal per g), not share by weight.
- Energy
- 736.3 kcal
- Protein
- 27.7 g
- Fat
- 17.1 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 122.6 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 17 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 7.3 g
- Sodium
- 797.8 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 2 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 172.2 kcal
- Protein
- 6.5 g
- Fat
- 4 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 28.7 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 4 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 1.7 g
- Sodium
- 186.6 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.47 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Milk
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal