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Curtido

Name: Curtido
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: El Salvador
Ingredients: 1/2 Cabbage; 1 Carrot; 1/2 Onion; 150ml Vinegar; 100ml Water; 2 tsp Oregano; 1 Red Chili Pepper; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Cabbage and carrots pickled with vinegar and oregano — the fermented pickle essential with pupusas.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Curtido is a Salvadoran pickle of cabbage, carrot, and onion with vinegar, oregano, and chili. Traditionally it's left at room temperature for a few days to ferment lightly, and it's indispensable with pupusas. Every pupusería has a big jar on the table to take as much as you like.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a pupusería table sit a big glass jar packed with cabbage pickle and a container of tomato sauce.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Cabbage 1/2
Carrot 1
Onion 1/2
Vinegar 150ml
Water 100ml
Oregano 2 tsp
Red Chili Pepper 1
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Shred the cabbage and carrot and slice the onion thinly.
Pour boiling water over the cabbage to blanch briefly and drain well.
Mix the vinegar, water, oregano, sliced chili, salt, and sugar.
Pack the vegetables and brine into a clean jar and press lightly.
Leave at room temperature for 1 day, then store in the fridge and serve with pupusas.

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