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Salbutes are lighter, unfilled cousins of panuchos: puffed and fried corn tortillas topped with shredded turkey, lettuce, tomato, avocado and pickled red onion.
Salbutes share roots with panuchos in early-1900s Yucatán market cookery. Where panuchos hide refried beans inside the fried tortilla pocket, salbutes are open-faced and lighter, sold as a quick breakfast or street snack at peninsula markets. The masa is patted thicker than a tortilla and fried until it puffs slightly; toppings are turkey or shredded chicken, pickled red onion, avocado, lettuce and tomato. Mercado de Santa Ana morning puestos and Lonchería El Recreo on Calle 62 are the canonical street counters in Mérida centro, selling salbutes from 7am until they run out by mid-morning. La Chaya Maya runs the reference sit-down version.
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Panuchos Mercado Santa Ana ★ 4.5
Santa Ana · Mercado Santa Ana, Calle 47 x 60 y 58, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Mercado Santa Ana stalls Mérida run panuchos and salbutes with shredded turkey, pickled red onion and habanero from 06:00 through late morning.
La Chaya Maya ★ 4.4
Santa Lucía · Calle 55 459 esq. Calle 60, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
La Chaya Maya on Santa Lucía in Mérida pours tortillas on a clay comal in the dining room and runs sopa de lima, poc chuc and panuchos seven days.
Salbutes y Panuchos Doña Tina ★ 4.3
Santa Ana · Mercado Santa Ana, Calle 47 x 60 y 58, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Doña Tina's stall in Mercado de Santa Ana Mérida turns out salbutes and panuchos with turkey, breakfast-only for Centro before the lunch service.
Mercado de Santiago ★ 4.3
Santiago · Mercado de Santiago, Local 15, Calle 57 x 70, Centro, 97000 Mérida, Yucatán
Mercado de Santiago on Calle 57 Mérida is the Santiago Apóstol neighborhood market, Lonchería La Lupita's cochinita and the breakfast cochinita stalls.
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