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Bean and Cheese Pupusas

Serving: 50

Ingredients

  • 3 lb of Harina de maiz, enriched
  • 2 qt 1 cup of Potato flakes
  • 1 gal 2 cups of Water
  • 3 lb of Mozzarella cheese, part-skim, shredded
  • 4 lb 5 oz of Black beans, canned, low sodium, rinsed and drained
  • 3 Tbsp of Garlic powder
  • 1 ½ cups of *Onion, fresh, mature, roughly chopped
  • ½ cup of *Jalapeno, fresh, seeded and diced
  • 1 tsp of Salt, table

Steps

  1. Place harina de maiz and potato flakes in the mixing bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment.
  2. Pour water over maiz and potato flakes and mix for 2-3 minutes with the paddle attachment until well combined and the dough sticks together.
  3. Add mozzarella cheese, black beans, garlic powder, onion, jalapeno, and salt to the bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth.
  4. Preheat combi oven to 500 °F.
  5. Gather the masa/potato flake mixture and the bean/cheese mixture at the same workstation to start assembling the pupusas.
  6. Spray 5 full-size sheet pans with nonstick spray.
  7. Using a scale, weigh 4 oz of masa dough and use hands to flatten into a pancake by transferring the dough back and forth between flattened hands. Set flattened masa dough aside for use in next step.
  8. Using a scale, weigh 2 oz of the bean/cheese mixture and roll into a ball. Place the ball in the center of the masa dough pancake.
  9. Fold the masa dough pancake over the bean/cheese ball and roll entire mixture into a ball with the masa dough around the outside of the ball and the bean/cheese mixture on the inside.
  10. Use hands to gently flatten the dough ball into a 5-inch pancake by transferring dough back and forth between flattened hands.
  11. Place pupusa on an oiled sheet pan, fitting 12 pupusas per pan.
  12. Repeat steps 7 through 11 until all masa dough and bean/cheese mixture is used.
  13. Spray tops of pupusas with nonstick spray.
  14. Bake pupusas in a combi oven at 500 °F. Combi oven: combination steam/convection at 500 °F for 7 minutes. Remove pan, flip each pupusa over, and cook for an additional 5 minutes. (Cook pupusas to internal temperature of 135 °F for at least 15 seconds.)
  15. Cover sheet pans with foil and hold for hot service at 135 °F until ready to serve.
  16. Serve 1 pupusa with ½ cup curtido.

Sourced from: Washington State Child Nutrition Agency



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