5 typical breakfasts from Yucatecan cuisine

The Yucatecan cuisine is one of the most popular in Mexico due to its diversity of ingredients and techniques. Here we present five breakfasts that will make you love the cuisine of Yucatán:Huevos motuleños Huevos motuleños are a classic recipe from Yucatán, specifically from the town of Motul. They are very famous because Huevos motuleños are part of the history of Mexico and Yucatán. They were born from a meal that Don Felipe Carrillo Puerto had with Don José Vasconcelos, Diego Rivera, and other great personalities of that time, we are talking about 1922, 1923. Carrillo Puerto was born here, in Motul, says Evelia Sánchez, a Maya cook from Motul. It is said that at breakfast, chef Jorge Siqueff, not having dishes, arranged the preparations he had on a single plate: fried eggs, beans, tomato sauce, and peas. Nowadays, they are prepared with a fried tortilla spread with refried beans and a sunny-side-up egg topped with grated fresh cheese, chopped ham, peas, and, on occasions, chaya, along with a rich tomato sauce. Find the complete recipe here! Panuchos This Yucatecan snack is made with a small puffed corn tortilla (due to its cooking on the griddle), which is cut and spread with strained beans, a slice of boiled egg, and fried in lard. Each panucho is topped with fillings such as pickled turkey and cochinita pibil. Panuchos are popular in the Yucatán Peninsula, and their name in Maya means corn bread with beans. The cochinita pibil panuchos are a delight you must try. Salbutes The salbutes are very similar to panuchos, the difference is that in salbutes the tortilla is not filled and is made by hand, it is cooked on the griddle and then fried in oil to become fluffy. They can be filled with chicken, venison, pork, or turkey, prepared in red escabeche, oriental, or pibil style; and are served with tomato, cabbage, pickled onion, tomato, and xnipec sauce. The word salbute comes from the Maya, sáal, light, and buth, filling, meaning light filling. Papadzules This is another Yucatecan snack made with small corn tortillas soaked in a sauce made with pumpkin seeds, filled with chopped boiled egg, rolled like tacos, and bathed in more pumpkin seed sauce and a bit of tomato sauce. The term papadzul comes from the Maya papa, meaning food, and dzul, gentleman, this means food for gentlemen or lords. Learn how to prepare easy papadzules here! Mucbil de pollo If you enjoy having tamales for breakfast, then mucbil de pollo is for you. This is a tamale made with corn dough, lard, and meat broth, which is filled with chicken and pork, in an achiote dough and wrapped in banana leaves, cooked in an underground oven called pib. Here we teach you how to prepare mucbil de pollo in a skillet. Have you tried these typical breakfasts from Yucatecan cuisine? Which one is your favorite?