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Salbutes

Name: Salbutes
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Belize
Ingredients: 8 leaves (small) Corn Tortillas; 300g Chicken Breast; 1/8 Cabbage; 1 Tomato; 1/2 Red Onion; 3 tbsp Vinegar; 1 tsp Achiote paste; 1/2 Chili pepper; 1 tsp Salt; To taste Oil for frying

Snack

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Small puffed fried tortillas topped with chicken and cabbage — a Belizean street snack.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Salbutes are street food eaten in Belize and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula: small corn tortillas fried until puffed are topped with shredded chicken, cabbage, tomato, and pickled onion. In Belize they're a hugely popular evening stall snack, usually ordered several at a time.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an evening in a Belizean town, chicken and vegetables are piled onto freshly fried little tortillas at a stall griddle and lined up on paper plates.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Corn Tortillas 8 leaves (small)
Chicken Breast 300g
Cabbage 1/8
Tomato 1
Red Onion 1/2
Vinegar 3 tbsp
Achiote paste 1 tsp
Chili pepper 1/2
Salt 1 tsp
Oil for frying To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the chicken for 20 minutes in water with achiote and salt dissolved, then shred finely.
Toss the sliced red onion and chopped chili with vinegar and salt to pickle.
Fry the tortillas briefly in 180°C oil until puffed.
Top with shredded cabbage, chicken, and sliced tomato.
Top with the pickled onion.

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