How to eat tamales?
Tamale is basically a derived Azetic word came from ‘Tamalii’ the meaning of this word is ‘wrapped food’. They were first introduced between 5000 B.C to 7000 B. C. It is a traditional Mesoamerican dish. Which is consist of ■■■ husks, plantain leaves. These corn husks or plantain leaves are filled with chiles, vegetables, and tasty meals. It can also be add up with other meals like tomatillo salsa, homemade chili etc. There are many ways to eat a tamale. its can also be wrapped inside banana peel, material includes two basic ingredients masas and dough. Corn husk and banana peel are used to wrapp it but they can also be used as a bkate while eating.
Eat tamales in your own way:-
Drag it out straight from the wrapper. To start munching tamale peel of the wrapper from one side of the packet. After eating kindly toss the wrapper into the trash. People usually used to eat tamales a handheld food.
Eat your tamale with a fork and knife;-
Unwrap the wrapper of the tamale. Put it in a plate. Cut the tamale into small pieces. convert into pieces like you are not going to eat it with your hands.
1- Tamales are available in corn husks pouches . You have to remove the wrapper properly. People don’t eat corn husks because they may cause choking and may upset your stomach in case of swallowed.
2- Tamales are converted into pieces because in this form they are easily consumable by the children.
3- You may eat it with your hand but it may mess up your hands, cloths and face.
Adding some salsa will add taste and gives yummy flavor;-
A Mexican chocolate sauce named mole can also be used to add some extra delicious taste to tamales, also tomato salsa sauces can be used to serve and to add some garnishing topping . we can directly top the salsa or mole on the tamale as topping and can also eat it by dipping unwrapped tamale in salsa or mole. you can make it at your home by your own recipes.and can change ingredients or substitutes as you wish it to be like in corn and black beans temales ,chunky pico de gallo etc.Hot sauces can also be used to add it up different spicy taste.
Sweet Tamale can also be serve as dessert:-
tamale is filled with many kind of things, some are spicy or savory fillings. Chocolate, raisins, and bananas are used as ingredients. Sweet tamales are available at every restaurant. sweet tamales are consumed in dessert.
1- Potent spices are used to flavor the sweet tamales. cardamom, nutmeg and cinnamon spics are used for this purpose.
Reheat leftover tamales before enjoying them:-
People usually store their extra tamales in the refrigerator. There are many ways to reheat them. You can use the steaming method to warm the tamales for this purpose you need a steamer basket, all to need is to put them in a pot of boiling water with the help of steamer basket. You can also use oven to warm them. Another way to warm them is to, put little bit of cooking oil in a pan and leave it for some time to become some hot, then throw the tamales in it slowly. you will get slightly crispy tamales.
1- You can also use microwave to warm the tamales. Use microwave only if you have no other option. You should put some water in a glass in microwave with tamales. In this way you tamales will not dry and stay crumbly.
2- Reheating the tamales is an option, not a rule that you cannot them while they are cold. It depends on you if you like to eat warm tamales than you can warm them with the above given method, your tamales will warm without losing their soft and tender texture.
Pairing tamales with other foods and beverages:-
Atole is a beverage. Ground corn is boiled with the assorted sweet flavorings to produce atole. Different kind of sweet flavorings are used like fruits, chinnamon and chocolate or vanilla. Commonly people use it with tamales. they dip the tamales in atole for batter taste.
1- Those restaurants who sell tamales atole is available there.
2- If you want to make atole with you own hands then you can
easily by following under mention steps.
Ingredients fo Atole;-
1- half cup packed dark brown sugar or 4 ounches pure cane sugar
2- 3-4 inch cinnamon stick
3- 1.5-2cup milk
4- 0.5 cup masa harina, you can also use ground cinnamon for dusting, but it is optional.
Step 1:-
Put 2 cup of water in a saucepan with salt, cinnamon and piloncillo. Boil it on high heat. Continue stirring till the piloncilo dissolved completely.
Step 2:-
When it comes to the boiling point, take together masa harina and milk in a large cup.
Step 3:-
Reduce the heat when the water comes to the boiling point. Gradually add in it the masa harina and milk mixture. Continue stirring so that the masa doesn’t sink to the botton of saucepan. Continue whisking till it becomes thick and when you feel it is covering the back of the wooden spoon for 4-5 minutes.
Step-4
Remove the saucepan from the heat. Discard cinnamon stick in it. You should serve it when it is hot. Garnish cinnamon on the ground.
Plate tamales with a side of arroz con leche:-
Arroz con Leche is another traditional item. It is also paired with tamales. Its taste is very delicious. it is made up of sweet rice pudding, it’s texture is bit custardy and has perfect match with dessert temales. They can also be served as a breakfast on some special occasion,to make the event more enjoyable and special for everyone. The ingredients used to make Arroz con Leche are water ,uncooked jasmine rice , whole milk , cinnamon stick , Sugar free full fat milk coconut , almond extract t, granulated sugar, scrapped seeds vanilla beans , kosher salt , slatfree butter , fresh harina masa or homemade masa , dry corn husks , Gaot milk also known as Cajeta or dulce de Leche and shortening veggies.
Now the question is how to make it ready?
Take a big saucepan and put ¾ cups of water add cinnamon stick and rice to boil it medium, keep in mind to not cover it, thoroughly stirr it until the water absorbed. Now add some salt to taste, almond extract, ¾ cup of whole milk into it, add some vanilla beans, ¼ cup sugar and coconut milk into it, it should be on medium flame. when the are boiled, reduce the flame too. keep stirring and uncovered until it becomes starting thick custardy,. Now after 18 minutes put it off from the heat and pour it into a big bowl, remove cinnamon sticks from it, and let it cool at a room temperature for an hour. Now combine the salt, butter and 1 cup sugar into a bowl now start beating the mixture until it becomes thick and fluffy for 2 to 3 8 minutes.
Now cover the bowel with a damp papers and then set aside…
Take some corn husk. and spread it over some higienic surface. now u may roll it over towards its centre. and now roll wrapp remaining of the husk around it. Take a stockpot and fill it with a water till it gets 1 inch, and then set a steamer inside it, water should not touches the bottom surface of the steamer. now vertically set the tightly packed temales in side it with open ends from one side, You can adjust them using aluminum foil rings if your steamer is bigger in size so temales can be set at their upright position. Now start steaming it on a medium flame and sprinkle the corn husk on the tamales and cover them using towel and a pot’s lid. Now we need to cook it on low flame fr 44 minutes. After 45 minutes it’s time to check them. carefully remove the lid from one side and take out 1 tamale to check. leave the others inside the cooker.
before unfolding let them rest for 10 minutes. if corn husk goes stuck with masa it means they need to be cooked more. and let them steam in steam basket for 5 minutes more. if the corn husk softly and cleanly gets separated from the tamales it means they are cooked fully. Now you can turn the flame off and remove the lid of the steamer bucket , towel and corn husks from the temales in 15 minutes. nd and then we can serve them with Cajeta ( goat milk). we can also serve them as a breakfast or as a dessert after meal.
Are temales bad for cholesterol?
They are actually made up with the ingredients masas and pork. as we know pig’s fat is used to make fats that are used to make lard and lard is necessary material in making of masas. so, this type of fat gives a new way to bad cholesterol.