Torpedo-shaped parcels of masa and wheat flour dough, stuffed with tinga, huitlacoche, chicharron or quesillo and deep fried until the shell shatters. A Puebla street standard, eaten hot.

The molote is Puebla's fried parcel: masa cut with wheat flour so the shell crisps rather than softens, rolled around a filling and dropped into deep fat. Tinga de pollo and huitlacoche are the two fillings that matter, the second only really available in the rainy months when the corn fungus is fresh. Antojitos Acapulco on 5 Poniente is the Centro address most cited for them, and Molotes La Ventanita on 10 Poniente sells nothing else at all. San Pedro Cholula runs a Feria del Molote every July on the Plaza de la Concordia, where twenty traditional cooks work the same shape in different directions.

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