tamales

     

A tamale (Spanish tamal, from Nahuatl tamalli), is a traitional Native American food consisting of steam-cooked corn dough (masa) with or without a filling. Tamales can be filled with meats, cheese (post-colonial), and sliced chillis or any preparation according to taste. The tamal is generally wrapped in a corn husk or plantain leaves before cooking, depending on the region from which they come.

Trivia about tamales

  • Meat & vegetables are cooked with a masa dough & wrapped in a corn husk to make this Mexican dish
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew gets his hands dirty.) These delicacies have been around for centuries; sometimes wrapped in the leaves of bananas or avocados, today they're usually wrapped in corn husks
  • You can make the traditional ties for these from strands of their corn husk wrappings