fairygirl69
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I was planning on making pork tamales in advance for our family Christmas party and then freezing them and reheating them Christmas morning for lunch. Can this be done and how?
I was planning on making pork tamales in advance for our family Christmas party and then freezing them and reheating them Christmas morning for lunch. Can this be done and how?
It can all be done in one day/solo..If your left uninterrupted.
Only if you're super woman.
I know my way around a kitchen alright but making everything required for tamale's SOLO in one day is flirting with an emotional and physical breakdown! I made 50 of them by myself in one day and long into the night when I was a young woman. Never again! I'll gladly pay to have them made by a family of experts.
I've made them once and they were every bit as good as the handmade tamales made by a Mexican friend who was selling them at Christmas one year. I'm going to take the long route and do it in at least three days. My anglophile family will be in for a new experience. My niece who is hosting Christmas wanted Mexican food and she's going to get some. ?
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As long as I prepare the filling ahead of time, I make my tamales in a couple of hours. But I cheat, instead of placing the masa dough into a softened corn husk, filling, and shaping. I spread the dough on parchment paper, place the filling on top, and use the paper as you would a sushi mat to roll the dough around the filling. I then encase the tamale in the same paper, and place a bunch of them into the steamer. While they steam, I make the sauce.
DW likes her tamales filled with shredded beef. I like mine with pork. I have had them filled with desert fillings by a wonderful Spanish Lady whose bird cage I cleaned with the help of a companion, in San Diego. In our church, we have assigned families we visit to assist them, and just to get to know each other. This was an elderly woman. She always made us some kind of goodie to make sure we'd visit each month. Her flans, tamales, etc. were fantastic.
The tamales taste the same whether made in corn husks, or parchment paper. just so's ya knows.
Seeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
Authentic tamale's without corn husks or banana leaves??
I do a mean Tamale Pie.