Panuchos
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Origin
Yucatán, Mexico
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Description
A foundational antojito from the Yucatán Peninsula, panuchos are hand-formed corn tortillas that puff during cooking, creating a hollow interior ready to be filled with seasoned black bean paste and hard-cooked egg before being fried golden and crowned with shredded meat and pickled onions. Diana Kennedy documents them as a cornerstone of Yucatecan street food — deceptively simple in form, layered in technique. The tortilla does the structural work; the cook's job is to read its behavior on the comal and act quickly when it speaks.
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