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Woman preparing delicious “pupusas”
1 large onion
Herbs
Olives
Capers
Sugar (for sweet tamale)
Prunes (for sweet tamale)
Procedure
Place the chicken in a pot together with the fine
minced onion and herbs, add salt, when the stew is
done take out the chicken from the pan, leaving the
stew in it.
Bone the chicken and cut the meat in small fine
strips and let it stand.
In the pot containing the stew, place the dough and
shortening stirring constantly to avoid smoking and
when ready pull it out (check if salt is OK) –To find if
dough is ready, use a teaspoon full of the dough and
put it on the leaves, if it is consistent and slides easily,
dough is ready; if it does not slide easily, add a little
more shortening and cook it for another 5 minutes.
Tomato Sauce
With the remaining chicken stew blend the ounce
of achiote (envelope), add a little bit of shortening or
oil and salt, bring it to a boil and remove it from heat
Wrapping
If there are not enough leaves, or the person is afraid
of not wrapping it correctly, do it this way:
“Place the dough one on top of the other on a 25 cms
by 25 cms “polipel” square (aluminum foil or waxed
paper); after one or two pieces of banana leave –
without vain).
On the leaf place one and a half spoons of dough,
on top put some chicken, one or two capers an olive
and in case of sweet tamale, add one or two prunes,
spray sufficient sauce and topped with another
spoon or 2 spoons of dough. Fold the leave from
the part close to you toward the front. Maintain the
hands pressed to the extremes of the leaf so the
dough does not spread out and fold again.
Do the same with the second leaf, if you have it and
finish wrapping with the chosen paper.
In a big enough pot do the following: at the bottom
put leaf veins somewhat rolled; if you do not have
them, make small paper balls and totally cover
the base. This would prevent that the tamales at
the bottom are directly touching the pot and burn.
Carefully place the tamales, cover them with water
and let them boil. They are ready when the leaves
are cooked. Remember, the leaves were the only
raw ingredient you place in the pot.
For the sweet tamales
The procedure is the same. When the dough is
ready, separate the amount you desire and add
sugar to taste.
As ingredient you may add is potatoes. In this case,
peel and cut them sideways and cook them. When
ready place them next to the chicken.
Vegetables and meat pies
Ingredients
4 cups of corn dough
½ ground beef
½ ground pork
4 ounces of potatoes, cooked and cut in squares
Seasoning as finely chopped onions, garlic, meat
seasoning, salt, green pepper
Any type of oil
Turmeric, annatto, or any food colorant, yellow or red
Procedure
Add salt and food coloring to the dough
Fry the two types of meat together with the potatoes
and the seasonings of your choice. Also other
vegetables may be combined.
Make a tortilla with the dough, put in the middle a bit
of the cooked meat and fold the tortilla in two, closing
the borders so that it has a half moon shape.
Fry them in hot oil or shortening until cooked and the
dough is crunchy.
Serve them with pickled cabbage, the same use with
the pupusas. They are delicious!