Juanita Tun, native of Yucatán, tops the panuchos (left plate) and salbutes with shredded chicken seasoned with recado de achiote, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, avocado and pickled onion at her home ...

You may or may not have heard of some of Yucatan’s most traditional dishes: puchero, relleno blanco, papadzul, escabeche negro, cochinita pibil, salbutes, sopa de lima, panuchos, huevos ...

But the region’s complexity has room for more humble bites, like such as panuchos and salbutes. The two dishes are similar — both masa tortillas that are later fried — but panuchos are ...