Cheese pupusas
This recipe for cheese pupusas is about as easy as it gets when it comes to pupusas.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 2 cups shredded cheese (mozzarella, Monterrey jack, or Oaxaca)
- vegetable oil
Masa dough
- 2 heaping cups masa harina
- 2 cups warm water
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Fill a medium sized bowl of warm water with a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. Dip your hands in this bowl to moisten your hands periodically while you shape your pupusas.
- Mix the ingredients for the pupusa dough together. If the dough is too wet and it sticks to your hands when you shape it, add more masa 1 tbsp at a time. If the dough is too dry and it crumbles when you shape it add more water 1/2 tbsp at a time.
- Seperate the dough out into balls that are about 2 inches in diameter.
- Use your thumb to make a hole in the middle of the ball of dough. Pinch the walls of the dough ball to thin them out until the dough is in the shape of a small cup or bowl.
- Fill the bowl with cheese, leaving a little bit of extra room at the top so that you can pinch the rim of the bowl together over the top of the filling. Pinch the rim of the bowl together until the hole has been completely closed. If there is not enough dough left to completely close the gap you can grab a little bit of extra dough to cover up the hole.
- Start to flatten the pupusa by pinching the dough between your thumb and the rest of your fingers. Flatten the pupusa out gradually to help prevent the dough from cracking as you flatten it.
- Cook the pupusas over medium to medium high heat in a flat pan, skillet, or comal. Cook the pupusas for 3 - 5 minutes per side until they start to brown.
