Hot vegan tamale!

 

Hot Tamale!!

Here's my first attempt at tamales.  I'd never even had a tamale before, so I have nothing to compare it to, but they turned out super good!  I hated paying six bucks for the corn husks given the amount of corn husks I composted last summer.  Definitely going to save some corn husks from the garden this year and dry them.  

 

Ingredients:

4 cups Masa flour

1 pkg dried corn husks 

2 bell peppers, one each red and green, diced

1 chili pepper, diced 

8 cloves garlic, minced

1 pkg ground fake beef, or TVP reconstituted and mixed with taco seasoning

hot sauce 

Tofutti sour cream

Instructions:

Mix the Masa flour with enough water till it is doughy (approx 3 cups) - alternatively you can use veggie broth if you choose.  Soak the corn husks in water for 10 minutes or so to soften them up a little.  Saute the garlic and peppers in 2 tbsp oil for 5 minutes, till softened.  Add the fake meat and cook for another 5 minutes, or according to package instructions.  Take 1-2 corn husks, and place a mound of masa dough in the center and flatten it out. Place 1 tbsp of the meat mixture in the center and roll it up in the corn husk.  Tie with some twine or with a strip of corn husk.  Place them all in a steamer and steam for an hour.  If you don't have a steamer, you can use a colander set into a larger pot with some water in the bottom.  Check periodically to make sure the water doesn't all boil off.  Serve with some hot sauce and Tofutti sour cream!