Pupusa appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Salvadoran pupusa · Los Angeles
A thick masa cake stuffed with cheese, beans or chicharron, griddled until crisp, eaten with curtido and tomato salsa. LA holds the largest Salvadoran community in the US.
The Salvadoran pupusa is a thick masa cake (pupusa) stuffed before griddling with cheese, refried beans, chicharron (ground pork) or loroco flower, served with pickled cabbage (curtido) and a thin tomato salsa. Los Angeles is home to the largest Salvadoran population outside El Salvador, concentrated along Pico and Vermont in Westlake and Pico-Union, where Salvadoran women started selling pupusas from kitchens and storefronts in the 1980s during the civil war diaspora. Sarita's Pupuseria inside Mercado La Paloma has been making them since 2003 and remains the city benchmark.
Where to eat in Los Angeles:
- Sarita's Pupuseria