{"id":16559,"date":"2020-12-08T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16559"},"modified":"2020-11-24T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:31:11","slug":"eating-vegan-at-salvadoran-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/08\/eating-vegan-at-salvadoran-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Vegan at Salvadoran Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pupusa-web-pequena.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pupusa-web-pequena.png 250w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pupusa-web-pequena-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Lucia Rivera,\nVRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pupusas, beans,\nyuca, plantains, and more await vegan eaters at Salvadoran restaurants. While\nmost restaurants that serve cuisine from El Salvador offer options with meat,\nvegetarians and vegans can also have delicious options to try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the staple dishes of Salvadoran\ncuisine are pupusas, thick tortilla-like griddle cakes filled with a variety of\nmixtures, ranging from beans to loroco (an edible flower). Pupusas are the\nnational dish of El Salvador and can be the main meal when dining out at\nSalvadoran restaurants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For vegans eating\nat Salvadoran restaurants, one can order bean pupusas, or pupusas filled with\nother vegetable options. Some Salvadoran restaurants, like Ch\u00e9vere in\nSacramento, California even offer especially made vegan pupusas with jackfruit\nand vegan cheese filling. As a topping to pupusas, vegans and non-vegans alike\ncan enjoy curtido, a pickled cabbage slaw topping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     The beans in pupusas are usually cooked with vegetable oil, but some restaurants might use lard. To make sure, it is always best to check with the chef to inquire about what ingredients are in their bean pupusas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Besides pupusas, there are several vegan\nside options that are commonly served at Salvadoran restaurants. One of these\nis fried yuca, also known as cassava in other parts of the world, which is a\nwhite starchy root. Fried yuca is a great vegan option as it is usually fried\nin vegetable oil. While you can always check with the chef of a restaurant to\nmake sure, yuca is generally fried in vegetable oil throughout Central America\nbecause vegetable oil is much more easy to transport and cheaper to buy in\nlarge quantities than lard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Additionally, fried plantains are a great\nside to go with yuca and pupusas! Plantains are also generally fried in\nvegetable oil. Even if one ordered bean pupusas, a side of black beans can be a\nperfect final addition to one\u2019s meal at a Salvadoran restaurant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more\ninformation on Latin American eating, see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/CookingAndRecipes.htm#cr-ethnic-cuisine\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/CookingAndRecipes.htm#cr-ethnic-cuisine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lucia Rivera, VRG Intern Pupusas, beans, yuca, plantains, and more await vegan eaters at Salvadoran restaurants. While most restaurants that serve cuisine from El Salvador offer options with meat, vegetarians and vegans can also have delicious options to try. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One of the staple dishes of Salvadoran cuisine are pupusas, thick tortilla-like griddle cakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16559\/revisions\/16561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}