Chicken Tamales
Chicken Tamales

Hi, I’m Joana. Today, I will show you a way to make chicken tamales recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.

Chicken Tamales Recipe

Chicken Tamales is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Tamales is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chicken tamales using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tamales:

  1. Prepare 2 Cups Maize flour (Masa harina )
  2. Prepare 2 Cups Chicken stock
  3. Get 1/3 Cup Corn oil (any vegitable oil)
  4. Get 1/2 Kilogram Chicken
  5. Get 1 Onion
  6. Make ready 1 Teaspoon Pepper powder
  7. Make ready 5 red chilli chilli Big or ancho
  8. Take 1/4 Teaspoon cloves Ground
  9. Take 1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon Ground
  10. Take 1/2 Teaspoon cumin Ground
  11. Take 4 cloves Garlic
  12. Take 1 Tomato
  13. Prepare Oi
  14. Take Corn husks
  15. Prepare Salt

Steps to make Chicken Tamales:

  1. Soak the corn husks in warm water until soft.
  2. Using an electric mixer or using hand, blend the maize flour, corn oil, salt and the chicken stock to obtain a consistent mixture.
  3. To prepare filling: Boil chicken in 1 litre of water with 1 onion, salt and pepper. Let it cool and then shred chicken meat and keep it aside. Seed and wash the chillies, then cover with boiling water and soak for ½ hour.
  4. Blend chillies and remaining ingredients until smooth, then fry in sausage oil. Add shredded chicken and simmer for about 5 minutes.
  5. Wash the corn husks, being careful not to break or split them and choose ones that will be wide enough to enclose the filling, or you can use 2 or 3 overlapped.
  6. Spread about 1 tablespoon of the corn masa on the bottom part of the cornhusk. Place some of the chicken filling in the middle and fold in sides towards the centre and then the top down over the middle. Tie across the middle using corn husks to hold th flaps down.
  7. Place the tamales in a steamer and cook tamales for 35-40 minutes. Check every 20 minutes.
  8. The tamale is cooked when it separates easily from the corn husk.

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