Country 51: El Salvador - Pupusas con salsa y curtido
Finding a recipe was difficult - there seems to be a few American people cooking El Salvadorian food but I wanted a recipe that was created by an El Salvadorian person. I couldn't find any food bloggers but then I looked on Youtube and found this recipe which is thankfully in English but looking through the channel of the Youtuber she also has similar recipes for pupusas in Spanish, as well as an abundance of other El Salvadorian recipes too. So we had the recipe! The next stage was to find the ingredients. The main ingredient for the dough is cornflour, but not like the starchy thickening corn flour we add - more like very fine polenta, but not polenta itself because that's too gritty. I did have some cornmeal left over from when I cooked my Barbados dish which has been lingering resentfully in my cupboard but I wasn't sure if that was the right sort of thing that I needed either, so I ended up buying some other corn flour from Amazon but when it