Hot Tamales Like Ya Mama Makes Recipe

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Ingredients
17
Count
Nutrition
6787
Calories
Total time
140
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Place the tamale papers into a shallow baking pan and soak them in just enough water to keep them wet.
  2. Place the ground beef in a large mixing bowl.
  3. With a food processor, puree the onions, garlic and Rotel tomatoes with juice. Pour this puree over the ground beef along with the red pepper, black pepper, salt, cornmeal, chili powder and tomato sauce. With your hands work this together until the meat mixture is uniformly and thoroughly blended. Your hands may become stained from the chili powder. Set aside at room temperature for about 30 minutes so that the seasonings can marry. In the meantime, mix cornmeal coating and tamale sauce.
  4. Cornmeal Coating:.
  5. In a shallow baking pan, blend together the cornmeal, salt, red pepper and chili powder until thoroughy mixed; set aside.
  6. Tamale Sauce:.
  7. In a small bowl combine tomato sauce and chili powder, stirring well; set aside.
  8. Place a large sheet of aluminum foil on a work surface. This is what you're going to roll the tamales on. Put within reach the meat mixture, cornmeal coating, tamale papers and the loaf pans.
  9. Using about one (1) tablespoon of the meat mixture, take your hands and roll out an oblong tamale about the size of a Vienna Sausage and toss it around in the cornmeal mixture. It's not necessary to pack the cornmeal on; just a light coating.
  10. Remove tamale from the cornmeal and wrap it in one of the wet tamale papers. It's best to wrap them from point to point diagonally, tucking in the edges of the paper as you wrap.
  11. As you finish each one, place it into the aluminum loaf pan. There should be three layers of tamales with 10 tamales on each layer, fitting into the pans perfectly with criss-crossed layers so the tamales cook evenly.
  12. When all the pans are loaded, pour the sauce evenly over the tamales and fill each loaf pan with boiling water. Tightly cover each pan with aluminum foil and place them into an retangular roaster. Finally, fill the roaster with just enough water to come about 3/4 up the sides of the pans. Do Not Overfill.
  13. Place the roaster on the stovetop, cover it tightly and simmer the tamales for about 2 hours.
  14. Tips for freezing:.
  15. If doubling the recipe for freezing, roll and wrap, placing them into loaf pans, ladle on the sauce, cover with heavy-duty aluminum foil and freeze uncooked. Or, for fully cooked tamales, cool, cover tightly with aluminum foil and freeze; defrost in refrigerator.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 6787 Kcal (28416 kJ)
Calories from fat 2160.55 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 240.06g 369%
Cholesterol 772.99mg 258%
Sodium 21648.24mg 902%
Potassium 6593.94mg 140%
Total Carbs 758.58g 253%
Sugars 50.05g 200%
Dietary Fiber 126.14g 505%
Protein 280.56g 561%
Vitamin C 87.8mg 146%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 6%
Iron 48mg 267%
Calcium 1202.6mg 120%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 160.11 Kcal (670 kJ)
Calories from fat 50.97 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5.66g 369%
Cholesterol 18.24mg 258%
Sodium 510.71mg 902%
Potassium 155.56mg 140%
Total Carbs 17.9g 253%
Sugars 1.18g 200%
Dietary Fiber 2.98g 505%
Protein 6.62g 561%
Vitamin C 2.1mg 146%
Iron 1.1mg 267%
Calcium 28.4mg 120%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 154.9
    Points
  • 160
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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