Three fillings:
Shredded beef
Yucatán Pork (cochinita pibil style)
Re-fried beans and cheese
Started with hot water soaking, then pureeing pasilla and guajillo dried chillies with garlic and onion, adding apple cider vinegar, clove and cumin seeds, mexican oregano, salt & beef stock. I used this to then pressure cook the beef, reserving a cup of this cooking liquor to add to the masa dough later. The rest I reduced down and then mixed through the beef once shredded.
Yucatán Pork: Shredded a mixture of shoulder and loin, cooked in the slow cooker with annatto, freshly squeezed grapefruit and oranges (can’t get bitter oranges here in the UK), garlic, allspice, cumin seeds, mexican oregano, dried epazote, salt.
Beans and cheese: I cheated and used La Sierra re-fried pinto beans.
I took note of the advice about the maseca needing flavour and much moisture, I mixed up 600ml of well seasoned chicken stock, with the beef cooking liquor to 250gram of maseca. I also added 1 teaspoon of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda.
I rolled tamales with about 50% filling to dough for
I followed a recipe for the dough and can post in comments.
I pressure cooked my tamales for 25minutes at high pressure.
by DSM-V_Graveyard
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I used this recipe for the masa dough. https://www.souschef.co.uk/blogs/the-bureau-of-taste/how-to-make-mexican-tamales#:~:text=Our%20preferred%20ratio%20is%20approx,bowl%20upturned%20in%20the%20centre.
Looks super tasty. And I’d have a hard time believing these were your first tamales, congrats!
Question for other people though: what causes that kind of masa breakage? My gut reaction is that it’s the wetness of the masa.
Nice! you can’t miss when using high quality ingredients like El Yucateco Achiote 😀
Those looke beautiful as a tamal should look. You are Mexican now (in case you weren’t before) welcome and enjoy good food.
They look incredible. You can even see that the masa isn’t dry in the picture. Yum 🤤
The amount of meat and sauce is on point. The masa looking moist is on point. They look terrific!
Ok, if you want to sell a few of your delicious tamales for Christmas, I’m buying.. they look deelish
Those look pretty legit! That’s coming from a Mexican American
You did a great job!
[This is my reaction](https://i.imgflip.com/82si9q.jpg)
Looks tasty! Also, “Rocky Barbacoa” is an underrated pun.
As a mexican I’ve never tried cochinita tamales. Now I must. They look delicious