# The best traditional dishes of El Salvador

Salvadoran cooking of corn, beans and pork crackling, with the pupusa as the national dish, according to Wikipedia, Visit El Salvador and El Salvador Viajar.

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- Sep 16, 2026 · veggie.canalla
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## Top 10

1. **Yuca con chicharrón** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fried or boiled cassava with pork crackling, curtido and tomato sauce.
2. **Pupusas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thick corn or rice tortillas stuffed with cheese, pork crackling, beans or loroco, with curtido and salsa; national dish with its own day on the second Sunday of November.
3. **Panes con pollo** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — French bread filled with stewed chicken, vegetables and sauce, for Christmas and parties.
4. **Sopa de gallina india** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Free-range hen broth with vegetables, the Sunday cure-all.
5. **Chicken tamales** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Corn masa with hen, potato and chickpeas in banana leaf.
6. **Tamales pisques** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Masa tamales with refried beans.
7. **Pastelitos de carne** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fried corn-dough turnovers with meat and vegetables.
8. **Sopa de pata** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Beef foot soup with cassava, plantain and corn.
9. **Riguas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fresh corn cakes grilled in corn husk.
10. **Mariscada** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Creamy seafood soup from the Salvadoran coast.
11. **Atol shuco** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Black corn atole with beans and alguashte, served in a gourd.
12. **Salvadoran quesadilla** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet cheese and cream cake with sesame, for coffee.

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