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    How to make Mexican tamales? - Recipes from my country

    The tamales are a very popular food originating from Mexicoknown for its variety of flavors and for being easy and quick to prepare, people usually eat it at all times, serve as breakfast, lunch and dinner, since can be filled with meat, chicken and other foods part of the basic basket thus becoming the main meal of Mexicans, it can even be a mixture of several foods within a single recipe. Its popularity is so great that it is known in many countries around the world.

    tamale recipe

    The preparation of this delicious dish consists of some tamale leaves that will be the base of the dish as such, inside the leaves the mace is added with different ingredients that depending on the time will be essential when serving, they can carry chicken, meat, pork among other well-known foods being very versatile and full of flavor

    Nutritional information

    1. 🍽️ Category: Appetizers
    2. 🍳 Cuisine: Mexican
    3. 🔪 Preparation: 60 minutes
    4. 🍲 Cooking: 120 minutes
    5. 🔥 Calories: 150 kcal
    6. 👫 Servings: 8 people

    Steps to make Recipe in the United States

    Ingredients

    • 250 grams of lard
    • 1 kilo of corn flour
    • One tablespoon of baking powder
    • 1 cup of chicken water broth
    • 20 tamale leaves
    • 1 tablespoon of salt
    • 1 green chili
    • Half a kilo of green tomato
    • 1 quarter onion
    • 1 clove garlic
    • half chicken breast

    Preparation

    • Step 1: Mix the flour together with the butter, the baking powder, water and salt until we have a completely uniform mixture.
    • Step 2: We boil the chicken breast in water and then shred.
    • Step 3: In a blender place the tomato with a cup of chicken broth, garlic, green chili and onion, add salt and pepper and blend.
    • Step 4: Boil the chicken for a few minutes until it reduces a bit.
    • Step 5: Moisten the leaves a little with water, place a tablespoon of dough for tamales.
    • Step 6: Let's pour the chicken into the green sauce and then place it on the dough
    • Step 7: We close the leaves and cook in a bain-marie in a steamer for at least an hour or until they are well cooked

    Recommendation

    To be sure that the tamales are already well cooked, we proceed to remove one of the tamales, if the shell comes off easily from the dough it is because they are ready, but if the dough is still attached to the sheet then you must take it back to pot and cook for at least 15 more minutes

    Fun facts

    Currently in Mexico there are at least 500 varieties of tamales. The name of this particular recipe comes from the Nahuatl tamalli, which translated means wrapped.

    There is still a fight between some American countries for the origin of this popular recipe, this is because different varieties have been developed in almost all Latin American countries, particularly in Mexico.