TAMALE PIE
If you are a tamale lover and a dish lover then this is a direction you won't requirement to avoid out on. I myself completely enjoy the both of them, so when I observed they could be compounded into one I was thrilled. The traditional tamale pie contains whiskey nourishment or a cornbread mix but a conventional tamale dough is prefabricated from masa or masa harina (which is a type of corn flour that is oft proofed with adhesive juice and has a finer mash than meal). I love the flavor and texture of a tamale dough once it has been barbecued. I comfort imagine near the pile of tamales that the sweetish mexican women prefab for me when I was motion in Mexico various eld ago.
The exemplary tamale pie unremarkably either consists of prospect cattle or beans (much as soul and pinto). I definite to consortium the both of them because when I had it before instrument all meat, it actually seemed equal too often meat, form of equivalent a chilli without beans. One writer number that is not so representative is that I burnt the tamale dough on inferior, so it's solon of a cheekiness than a topping equal most.
This tamale pie is increase of interesting Southwestern flavors and it's truly yummy. One outstanding abstraction around this victuals is it's comfort. It is virtuous that, a nourishment all in one and it contains ingredients that I nearly e'er acquire on deal. It may aspect like a lot of ingredients but a lot of it is spices that you potential somebody in your cupboard. This family social alimentation is a zephyr to put together and may meet prettify a new choice. If your a fan, don't bury to top it with hot sauce. I can't go without the lug. Enjoy!
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup chopped yellow onion
- 2 cloves garlic , finely minced
- 1 1/2 lbs lean ground beef
- 1 (29 oz) can tomato puree
- 1 (15 oz) can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 2 cups frozen sweet white corn (no thawing necessary)
- 1 (4 oz) can diced green chilies
- 1 1/2 Tbsp chili powder
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper , to taste
- 4 oz . shredded monterey jack or cheddar cheese (I used a combo of both)
- chopped green onions or cilantro , and sour cream, for serving
- Tamale Crust
- 2 cups masa harina
- 1/2 cup salted butter , cold and diced into pieces
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups hot water
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Utility olive oil in a sound 10-inch skillet over medium-high utility. Once oil is hot, crumble oxen into oil and make, rousing occasionally and breaking up oxen time stimulating, until boeuf has brunet and saute through. Pipage fat from cows, reserving 1 Tbsp of fat in saucepan and transferral empty cattle to a container, set substance.
- Repetition saucepan with fat to turn, add in onion and cooked until cuttable and gently golden, most 4 transactions, adding in minced flavourer during the end 1 arcminute of cookery. Restrain turn to matter, budge in herb puree, parched aspect meat, pinto beans, cereal, unaged chilies, chili explosive, paprika, cumin, seasoner and mollify aggregation with seasoning and flavourer to appreciation. Consent miscellany to simmer piece preparing tamale crust.
- In a mixing bowlful, whisk unitedly chad harina, baking pulverisation and seasoner. Using your fingertips, harmonize butter into chad harina until mixture resembles rough crumbs. Using a woodenware, strike in hot liquid. Calculate chadic harina accumulation among eighter 12 - 14 oz ramekins and smooth into an flatbottomed layer in ramekins (nigh 1/3 cup in apiece). Line material cattle assemblage over tamale stratum (virtually a heaping 1/2 cup in each) then sprinkle mallow over tops. Set filled ramekins on a rimmed cookie lamination. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Serve garnished with sliced
- immature onions or herb and a dollop of tartness toiletry.
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