Salvadorian Recipes

Soups contain turkey meat (turkey taco soup with avocado cream), beef (caldo de res soup or the famous menudo) and pork (the posole soup. Beef is the base for meals like lomo entomatado and all the gilled steaks, like carne asada and meat pies, like pastel de carne or the salpicon (beef with tomatoes, chilies and cilantro. Curtido is made of shredded cabbage, peeled and grated carrot, minced scallions, white vinegar, fresh or dried oregano and crushed red pepper flakes. The cakes are best represented by the Maria Luiza cake, which is prepared with butter, sugar, orange zest, vanilla, eggs, regular flour, orange juice, orange marmalade and powdered sugar.....