Guest guest Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Well, the store bought masa is easy... even saw ready-made masa in the supermarket (in the ethnic neighborhood) just have to check for ingredients. Prepared (dried) masa usually means ground corn with lime. Growing up, I used to take my turn grinding the corn for my grandmother. Now, I take the masa and add vegetable broth with chili but think she must have used lard and chicken broth. I know she used a shredded pork chili for the filling. We used to watch everyone spread the masa in the corn husks, fold and steam... As for filling, we wanted something we would like inside and could find readily available, for this first time. It has been fun so we plan on trying other fillings in the future. Plus we haven't had much time looking for tamales in the area.. but didn't just want some from a supermarket. I spent one summer in parts of central america and remember banana leaf vegetable tamales. Meat was rare due to cost and such but I found the banana leave more bitter than corn husks. I had an aunt in Los Angeles who used to added whole black olives to her pork tamales. Lobo " artichoke72x " <artichoke72x wrote: banana leaves to wrap tamales are traditional in some parts of mexico. i've also seen tamales wrapped in collard greens. i would venture to say that fresh corn husks would work too. i hesitate to post a recipe because i don't have one (aside from fillings)...i use the masa recipe on the package of masa harina. there are tons of tamale instructions and recipes online. again, i hesitate to post, because i haven't personally tried them, and most mention meat and meat ingredients. susie Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 Thanks for the great ideas on Tamale preparation. My partner lives in Chiapas Mexico, and I have been looking for a fairly easy Mexican recipe to cook for her, something in the line " Mexican Food Preparation for Dummies " . Well, not to suggest that the rest you are dummies, but I would like to start with something fairly bomb-proof as it will be the first time I prepare anything for her and I don't want to look like the dummy! Denise - " el Lobo " <dfw_lobo Re: tamales Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:50:11 -0800 (PST) > > > Well, the store bought masa is easy... even saw ready-made masa in > the supermarket (in the ethnic neighborhood) just have to check for > ingredients. Prepared (dried) masa usually means ground corn with > lime. Growing up, I used to take my turn grinding the corn for my > grandmother. Now, I take the masa and add vegetable broth with > chili but think she must have used lard and chicken broth. > > I know she used a shredded pork chili for the filling. We used to > watch everyone spread the masa in the corn husks, fold and steam... > As for filling, we wanted something we would like inside and > could find readily available, for this first time. It has been fun > so we plan on trying other fillings in the future. > > Plus we haven't had much time looking for tamales in the area.. but > didn't just want some from a supermarket. > > I spent one summer in parts of central america and remember banana > leaf vegetable tamales. Meat was rare due to cost and such but I > found the banana leave more bitter than corn husks. I had an aunt > in Los Angeles who used to added whole black olives to her pork > tamales. > > Lobo > > " artichoke72x " <artichoke72x wrote: > banana leaves to wrap tamales are traditional in some parts of > mexico. i've also seen tamales wrapped in collard greens. i would > venture to say that fresh corn husks would work too. > > i hesitate to post a recipe because i don't have one (aside from > fillings)...i use the masa recipe on the package of masa harina. > there are tons of tamale instructions and recipes online. again, i > hesitate to post, because i haven't personally tried them, and > most mention meat and meat ingredients. > > susie > > > > Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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