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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preparing the corn husks: | 2. Remove the corn husks from their package. | 3. Place into a large bowl and pour boiling water over them. | 4. Since they will float, to keep them submerged, set another bowl full of water on top of them. | 5. Leave for several hours or overnight. | 6. Chicken Tamale Filling: | 7. Heat oil in a large heavy skillet and saute the yellow onions, garlic, green onions, tomatillos, bell pepper, and all chiles, until they are soft and hot but not yet beginning to brown. | 8. Add the chicken meat, cilantro, chili seasoning, lime juice and zest, and sugar. | 9. Stir well. | 10. Add enough chicken stock, broth or bouillon to stand at least an inch deep over the top of the ingredients. | 11. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a rapid simmer and then add salt and pepper to taste and adjust seasonings. | 12. You may wish to add more sugar and lime juice or a pinch of dry chili flakes if you want a bit more heat. | 13. Cool and use to make tamales now or freeze for use later. | 14. Basic Tamale Dough: | 15. Mix the masa, baking powder, salt, and cumin thoroughly together. | 16. In another bowl, beat the butter and fat together until very light and creamy, about 5 minutes. | 17. Gradually beat in 3 tbsp of masa mixture, then 3 tbsp water until light and fluffy, about 1 minute. | 18. Continue beating in the masa and water, alternately, until the dough is very smooth and of spreading consistency, about 5 minutes. | 19. Cooking and Making the Tamales: | 20. When ready to begin folding your tamales, remove the corn husks from the water, drain, and pat dry. | 21. Put in a plastic bag to stay moist and remove only a few at a time as you need them. | 22. Lay one corn husk on a flat surface in front of you. | 23. Put about a tbsp of prepared masa dough on the corn husk and flatten with the back of the spoon. | 24. The dough should be no more than 1/4 inch thick. | 25. Leave at least a 1/2 inch border on each long side of the corn husk that has no masa and at least 1-1/2 inches at the top and bottom. | 26. Put about a tbsp of the chicken filling in a line down the center of the masa. | 27. Bring the 2 long sides of the corn husk over the masa and filling and overlap them a bit. | 28. Then fold the two ends over. | 29. You may leave the tamale like this and simply put it in the steamer, folded side down or you may use thin strips of corn husk or thin kitchen twine to tie them shut. | 30. The most convenient way to cook tamales is a conventional steamer. However, you can improvise. | 31. Fill the bottom of the steamer with water up to the level indicated and bring to a boil. | 32. Line the top of the steamer with corn husks, covering the bottom and sides well. | 33. Stack the tamales upright, with the tied down flaps upwards. | 34. For the best results they should be packed firmly but not tightly, because the husks swell out as the dough cooks. | 35. Cover the tamales with more corn husks. | 36. Cover the top of the steamer with a thick cloth (a piece of old toweling is best) to absorb condensation. | 37. Cover the steamer with a tight fitting lid. | 38. Let the tamales cook for about 2-1/2 to 3 hours over a medium flame. | 39. Keep the water bubbling, but not boiling violently. | 40. To test the tamales for doneness, remove one from the center, and one from the side of the steamer. | 41. As you open the husk, the dough should come away easily from the husk and be completely smooth. | 42. Once cooked, tamales are very good tempered. | 43. They are great to eat right away and they also do very well being gently reheated in an ungreased frying pan. | 44. Just keep turning them so that they are heated through evenly and the husk browns but does not burn. | 45. They can be refrigerated and will keep well stored that way for about a week. | 46. However, it is best to freeze them. | 47. To reheat, they can be wrapped in foil, put into a 350°F oven still frozen, and heated through for about 30 minutes. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
olive oil	2 -3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
yellow onion	2		chopped	229.68	13.6764	1.653	18.792
garlic clove	8 -10		minced	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
green onion	4		chopped	76.68	16.3016	2.7548	1.3348
tomatillo	8 -10		washed chopped	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
green bell pepper	1		seeded chopped	-	-	-	-
anaheim chilies	2 -3		seeded chopped	-	-	-	-
hot chili pepper	1 -2		seeded minced	-	-	-	-
cilantro	1/2	cup	chopped	1.84	0.2936	0.1704	0.0416
chili seasoning mix	2	tablespoons		45.3383	7.6547	1.4644	0.988
sugar	1/4	cup		201.495	50.398999999999994	0.0	0.0
lime juice	4			15.125	5.0941	0.2541	0.0424
lime zest	4			-	-	-	-
chicken broth	1	can		94.55	2.2875	13.481	3.1719999999999997
chicken meat rotisserie	1		cooked skinned chopped cooked	-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper			coarse ground	-	-	-	-
masa harina	1 1/2	1/2		620.73	130.9689	14.4666	6.3099
baking powder	3/4	teaspoon		1.8285	0.9556	0.0	0.0
salt	3/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cumin	1	teaspoon	ground	7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
butter	3	tablespoons	softened	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
shortening	1/3	cup		604.0667	0.0	0.0	68.3333
water	3/4	cup		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
water	3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
corn husk	25 -40			-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.