Papadzules are corn tortillas dipped in a green pumpkin-seed sauce (pepita molida), rolled around hard-boiled egg and finished with a fresh tomato-and-chiltomate sauce.

The dish dates to pre-Hispanic Maya cookery, where pumpkin seeds were the daily grease and protein source. The name in Mayan ('papak suul') means 'food for lords'. Spanish hard-boiled egg overlay made the modern version. La Chaya Maya and La Tradición both run canonical recipes today.

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