International Recipes
Tamales
To make the tops of the tamales colored, use annatto seeds or achuete.
Serve with Bagoong Alamang on the side.
Ingredients
- 1 cup powdered rice flour
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 cup coconut milk
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1 to 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 1/2 cup cooked pork, cut into strips
- 1/4 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sliced chorizo
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Annatto seed or achuete for color (optional)
- Sliced cooked ham
- 2 red eggs or boiled eggs, sliced
Instructions
- Toast rice flour in moderate heat until golden brown.
- Remove from the heat and add coconut milk, stirring until smooth.
- Stir in peanut butter, salt, sugar and pepper.
- Return mixture in stove and cook on medium heat adding chicken broth, stirring
until it turns into a thick paste.
- Lower heat, stirring for 10 minutes more and taste seasoning.
- Transfer into a banana leaf and shape into a rectangular form.
- Combine ham, pork and chorizo and place on top.
- Add sliced egg on top.
- Fold the banana leaf to form a rectangular bundle.
- Get another banana leaf and fold all over to form another rectangular bundle.
Do this two more times so the tamale is wrapped four times in banana leaf.
- Tie the bundle up so water does not seep inside the tamales.
- Place in a steamer, and steam for one hour.