World Flavors Cookbook

Papadzules

Name: Papadzules
Cook time: 20 min
Cuisine: Mexico
Ingredients: 12 corn tortillas; 6 hard-boiled eggs, chopped; 300g pumpkin seeds (pepitas), toasted; 200ml chicken broth; 1 large bunch epazote or cilantro; For tomato oil: 3 tomatoes roasted, 1 habanero, 2 tbsp oil

Yucatecan tortillas rolled with hard-boiled egg and bathed in a vivid green pumpkin seed sauce with tomato-habanero oil on top.

Cuisine: Mexico

Ingredients

12 corn tortillas
6 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
300g pumpkin seeds (pepitas), toasted
200ml chicken broth
1 large bunch epazote or cilantro
For tomato oil: 3 tomatoes roasted, 1 habanero, 2 tbsp oil

Instructions

Blend toasted pumpkin seeds with broth and epazote until a smooth green sauce forms.
Squeeze the sauce through cheesecloth to extract a green oil. Reserve oil.
Warm tortillas. Dip each in the green sauce.
Fill with chopped egg. Roll.
Arrange on plate. Pour remaining sauce over.
Make tomato oil: blend roasted tomatoes with habanero. Fry in oil briefly.
Drizzle tomato-habanero oil over the green rolls. Top with reserved pumpkin seed oil.