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Pupusa (Stuffed Corn Flatbread Griddled on a Comal)
El Salvador’s national dish: a thick corn flatbread stuffed with cheese and beans and griddled on a comal. The hard part is that masa has no gluten. This site’s wrapping guide answers a splitting seam with pleats, because pleating lengthens the seam and builds in slack — and masa cannot be pleated, since it tears rather than stretches. So a pupusa does the opposite. You close a ball, then flatten it, and the seal is spread across the whole disc until there is no seam left to split.
