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| Type | Pambazo bread |
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| Place of origin | Mexico |
| Region or state | México City |
Pambazo (Spanish:[pamˈbaso]ⓘ) is a Mexican dish orantojito (very similar to thetorta) made withpambazo bread dipped and fried in a redguajillo pepper sauce. It is traditionally filled withpapas con chorizo (potatoes withchorizo) or with potatoes only but there are different varieties.
Pambazos are made from white bread without a crispy crust.
The bread is filled with potato and chorizo, dipped in warm redguajillo pepper sauce, fried, andgarnished with shredded lettuce,salsa (sauce),crema (cream), andqueso fresco (fresh cheese).[1]
In the Mexican state ofVeracruz at social events, small pambazos, called pambacitos ("little pambazos"), are served instead ofcanapés.
The pambazo bread got its name from theLadino wordpan basso (Spanishpan bajo) or low-class bread fromMexico's viceregal period. During that period, there were bakeries in Mexico dedicated solely to this type of bread named 'panbasserias' (pambacerías).
In some villages from State of Mexico, the pambazos are made with Semitic Mediterranean cuisine influence by the use theacemite or bran for bread made in artisan bakeries about horns of Spanish colonial period, as the case ofMalinalco,Tequixquiac andAmecameca.
In Malinalco, state of Mexico makes other pambazos, a Spanish colonial meal are made flour more small to Mexico City pambazos, filled with sausage and potatoes, chicken meat withepazote, shredded lettuce, white cheese, cream and spicy salsa.
In the Mexican state of Tequixquiac, pambazos are very different from those of Mexico City, being made with flour with dark wheat rind or bran named acemite, filled with sausage and potatoes, turkey meat or lamb meat (barbacoa), shredded lettuce, white cheese, cream and spicy chili chipotle sauce, fried with butter. The name is registered in this place aspan bazo, an archaic Spanish word.
In Puebla City, pambazos are made with flour namedcemita or acemite, sausages, potatoes,avocado, papalo, white cheese, and cream.
Orizaba, Veracruz, a place with Sephardic roots, pambazo is made with Carne Polaca, or "Polish meat", lettuce, and spicy sauce.
The Daily Meal reviewed the pambazo with "it’s insanely delicious" in their article "12 Life-Changing Sandwiches You've Never Heard Of".[2]Robert Sietsema described the sandwich aslegendary inThe Village Voice.[3]
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