Gorditas

Ingredients

• Baking powder
• Baking soda
• Eggs
• Hot water or milk 
• Sugar
• Butter or Olive oil 
• Cinnamon
• Sour cream 
• Salt 

Preparation

Mix dry ingredients: flour (start with 1 cup), sugar (start with 3/4 cup), baking soda (1/2tsp), baking powder (1 tsp) and cinnamon (to taste). Add salt if sour cream does not have salt or to taste.

Combine the liquids (eggs (2), melted butter or olive oil (4 tblsp) and start with 1/2 cup of hot water or milk, add small container of sour cream. Add dry ingredients and mix until dough is soft, but not mushy.

Make small patties and use a flat pan to cook them in.

Enjoy by themselves, or jam and accompany them with milk, coffee, or hot chocolate.

Empanadas

Ingredients

• Corn masa
• Tinga de pollo (or other stuffing
• Copped lettuce
• Salsa (pico de gallo)
• Salsa verde
• Salvadorean sour cream

Preparation

Mix corn masa. Make corn tortillas in the tortiadora. 

Add chicken tinga or other stuffing (like potato stuffing).

Fold and seal.

Cook in a flat pan. Add a small amount of olive oil.

Top with Salvadorean sour cream.

Add lettuce.

Salsa verde.

And, pico de gallo... Enjoy!

Tacos Dorados

Peel, chop and steam potatoes in the microwave and then mash them. Chop onions, tomatoes, chili and cilantro. Add some onion to the mashed potatoes.

Prepare some quick salsa verde by adding cilantro and chili to a can of Embasa salsa.

Next grate some queso fresco. You also need some sour cream.

Putting it all together involves first toasting the tortilla with potatoes in them (ideally deep fried!).
Then add in all the ingredients.