Panuchos
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Panuchos are small corn tortillas stuffed with black beans and fried, then topped with shredded turkey or chicken, lettuce or cabbage, tomato, pickled red onion and avocado; in Mexico we have verified places to eat it in Cancún and Mérida.

Panuchos · Cancún

Panuchos are small corn tortillas stuffed with black beans and fried, then topped with shredded turkey or chicken, lettuce or cabbage, tomato, pickled red onion and avocado.

Spanish Wikipedia traces the panucho to Mérida, near the San Sebastián neighbourhood by the Ermita de Santa Isabel, and says it was developed in Kanasín, which still calls itself the capital of the panucho; popular tradition credits a man known as Don Hucho, who fed travellers there. What sets it apart from the salbut is the layer of refried black beans inside the tortilla before it is fried. Panuchos are a supper food, sold in the evening at panucherías alongside salbutes and tortas, and in Cancún they sit on the chalkboard at Lonchería El Pocito.

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Panuchos · Mérida

Panuchos are Yucatecan puffed tortillas split, stuffed with refried black beans, then fried and topped with shredded turkey, pickled red onion, avocado and habanero salsa.

Panuchos are an early-20th-century Yucatecan invention, attributed to Doña Vale of Campeche who, the story goes, mixed leftover bean paste into fried tortillas to extend a meal. The name comes from 'pan de Don Ucho', a regional baker. The dish moved up the peninsula and became the Mérida market breakfast.

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