Street Stall · Fried Pastry
Tucumana
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Tucumana stalls set out a row of sauces and pickles, such as llajwa, onion-tomato salsa and pickled vegetables, and customers spoon them into the opened pastry between bites.
A half-moon pastry stuffed with seasoned beef or chicken, potato, peas and egg is deep-fried until golden and blistered. Street vendors in La Paz sell them hot each morning, splitting them open to fill with salsa.
Why it's made this way: The tucumana's morning street-stall ritual, eaten fresh from the fryer with sauces spooned inside, is a distinctly La Paz breakfast tradition, even though the pastry's name points back to Tucumán, Argentina.
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