It's Tamale Time! Please share your favorite tamale recipes.
 

Christmas eve means tamales at my house. We usually make up several different kinds and everyone goes home with a bag of them for the freezer. We always do a pork and red chile recipe, a chicken version is always served, there's usually some sort of vegan type s/a chile and corn, or bean, and sometimes we have sweet tamales. Sauces include mole negro, chile verde, and something more offbeat s/a nogada, or pumpkin. Please share any tamale recipe that you have.

~ C

Sorry I don't have any recipes to help. Tamales are really my favorite Mexican food, unless they are green corn. Mmmm
I really enjoy living in Tucson because you get some of the BEST Mex around. And I enjoy that.

Never even tasted them, that I recall. We did stop in a Tucson grocery store and I heard a woman order 50# of tamale meat. I’m thinking that’s a lot of tamales !

I like to make tamales with pork in a red chili sauce I make from California and New Mexico chile powders with some Chocolate Ibarra added in.

For chicken tamales, I use a green chile sauce made by simmering tomatillos, onions, fresh jalapeno or serrano peppers and garlic. After I cook it, I blend it and add fresh cilantro.

My vegetarian version is simply jalapenos from a can and jack cheese.

My grandmother used to make sweet tamales with a custard. I sure wish I had that recipe!

No recipe but would you consider adopting me? Just kidding! Living in the land of little cultural diversity, the only option for me are the canned tamales.

Having lived in the south west growing up, you would think I should know how to make them. Nope, my favorite recipe for tamales are the ones I get at Cebolla's, local Mexican restaurant.:)

I have never made tamales. I love them and would love a recipe. I love to cook and try making new things. This is why my clothes are all getting tight.

America's Test Kitchen had a show on making tamales. You can find it on the internet. Sorry, but that is the best I can do.

Please elaborate on the sweet tamales with a custard. That sounds delicious! More details please. Maybe we can come up with our own recipe. :)

Yes! I'll adopt you! :D You poor thing. I can't even imagine having to eat canned tamales. I've never even seen them in the stores before.

~ C