Recipe of Speedy Chicken Tamales

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken tamales. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Tamales is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Chicken Tamales is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken tamales using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tamales:

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

Instructions 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 hot 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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