Salvadoran Pupusas

First we'll prepare the sautéed filling, then the dough.... Let's go get them!!!😊❤️ 1° Sautéing: chop the onion and asparagus small to taste, and sauté them in a pan with a little EVOO and salt to taste. *While the filling is sautéing, we can make the dough (it is very easy and fast).

2° Dough: put in a bowl or deep plate, the cup and a half of flour (precooked corn flour "bread" type) and add water and knead until it is smooth to the touch and without lumps. We separate it into balls.

Once the sauté is done, put it in a bowl, add the cheese, and make a filling dough, and separate it into "balls" with a spoon. *Each ball of filling will be about 2/3 of the corn flour balls. Then we take each ball of flour, and we put it in the palm of the hand, and we make a "hole" in it, where we will put the ball of filling. Once we have both things, we close the stuffed dough ball at the top, and we cut with our fingers what is left over, which will be used for other pupusas. We keep the stuffed and closed dough ball in our hands.

Place a griddle or frying pan (I use a cast iron pan) over medium heat. It is not necessary to put oil. With the ball filled, we spread a little EVOO on the palms of our hands, and we flatten little by little (giving shape), and turning the palms, so that the ball is flattened like a kind of cake. As soon as we make the cake, we put it on the preheated griddle/frying pan. We will turn them over after about 10-15 minutes and they will look like in the picture (you can let them toast as you like, but don't worry, they won't dry out).

Once they are done on both sides, we will put them on a flat surface preferably (a plate is fine), and we will not put other pupusas on top until they are cooled, because being hot and stuffed, the ones underneath could explode.

It is best to eat them warm and freshly made, but they can be stored once cold, in the refrigerator for up to two days later, or freeze them separately, and take them out a few hours before eating them to thaw, and heat them in the microwave. If there is leftover filling, we can make more dough, or if there is leftover dough we can also make tortillas without filling (100% corn bread). You can eat them for breakfast, snack... or you can also eat one as a first or second course of another meal.