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Recipe Sweet Tamales (Dessert)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 (8 ounce) package dried corn husks
- 1 cup lard or shortening, divided
- 2 1/2 cups masa harina flour
- 1 1/2 cups ALBER'S® Yellow Corn Meal
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 (14 ounce) can NESTLE® CARNATION® Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Preparing/Cooking:
- SORT corn husks, setting aside any torn ones.
- Soak intact husks in warm water for at least 1 hour or until softened and easy to fold.
- BEAT 2/3 cup lard in large bowl until creamy.
- Combine flour, corn meal, sugar, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl.
- Alternately add flour mixture, water and sweetened condensed milk to lard, mixing well after each addition.
- Melt remaining lard; gradually stir into masa mixture, mixing until consistency of thick cake batter (masa).
- Stir in vanilla, raisins and nuts.
- SPREAD 1/4 cup masa, using back of a spoon, to form a square in the center of one husk.
- Fold right then left edge of husk over masa.
- Fold up bottom edge.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients.
- PLACE vegetable steamer in pot with lid; add water to just below steamer.
- Arrange tamales upright in steamer rack.
- Cover top of tamales with reserved dry husks and a damp towel; cover.
- Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low.
- Steam, adding water as needed, for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until masa pulls away from husks.
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