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!
