I Made Tamales!

What's your comfort food? For the British people it might be a full English breakfast or bangers and mash. For French Canadians it might be ragoût de boulettes (meatball stew) or tourtière . Americans might long for mom’s apple pie. But for Mexicans, it’s tamales. I learned to make these at a Tamelada at San Antonio's Witte Museum. Check the recipe on my website and you too will say, Look mamacita, I can make tamales!
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Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
Tamales are composed of masa (corn meal based wet dough) and a filling, wrapped in a corn husk (though in parts of Central America they use a banana leaf). They may be filled with vegetables, pork, chicken, beef, and even with sugar, cinnamon, cheese and raisins, pineapple, and other fruits.
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Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
Troy is one of the children who is loving getting his hands dirty, folding and tying his own tamales. He's here with his mum, Laly.
Masa for Tamales
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Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
It's a family even at the Witte Museum as everyone gets to make their own tamales to take home.
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Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
Filling, folding, filling folding - it's a lot of work but fun when the whole family is involved.
Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
The pot is steaming and our tamales are done.
Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
Troy patently loves his tamales. Troy can barely stop eating long enough to reply to my question, “Yes, I really like it,” he mumbles. My own first bite of my very own, hand-made tamale is a revelation. It neatly unwraps to a zesty, fragrant little bundle of beans and corn masa.
Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
This one at the festival, is wrapped in banana leaf, not corn husk.
Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
San Antonio's Pearl District has a tamale festival near Christmas each year. It's chance to taste dozens of different fillings.
Look mamacita! I made tamales at the Witte Museum
Want to know how to make these? They are lots of work, but very rewarding. Because tamales are so labour intensive, they have become special occasion fare, especially at Christmas. Usually the women gather and make hundreds at a time. But you can buy them in Mexican markets for about $9 a dozen. That’s not nearly enough for the work entailed in making these little gems!