groups

New Mexico Tamales

This is a huge undertaking, have a tamale party!

* 4 lb Pork shoulder
* 6 cups Water
* 6 tbs To 8 chile powder
* 1/8 tsp Oregano (optional)
* 1/4 tsp Cumin (optional)
* 2 cloves Garlic, chopped fine

----MASA FOR TAMALES----
* 5 lb Masa corn meal flour
* 1 lb Lard
* Pork broth from above
* 48 Corn husks(dried)

Tamales: Boil meat in water until tender (probably 3 hours). Remove meat from broth, saving broth for making dough and chile. Chop meat in 1/4 inch pieces and place in pan. Dissolve chile powder in 1 1/2 cups of the meat broth, add to the meat, add garlic, spices and salt, and cook until almost dry. Set aside, while preparing dough (masa).
Masa for Tamales: Cream lard in a medium size mixing bowl, using a mixer at medium speed. Add flour and mix. Add enough of the meat broth to make dough spreadable with a table knife. Assembling the Tamales: Rinse corn husks and soak in warm water until pliable. Spread the center portion of each husk with 2 tbs of the masa mixture. Top with the chile meat filling. Varied amounts of either the masa or thee filling may be used (some like them thin, some like more of the filling). Fold the sides of the husks toward the center, the bottom of the husk up the top down. Tie each tamale top and bottom with a narrow corn husk strip. Pour 2 inches of water in a large kettle and arrange the tamales on a rack above water level. Steam tamales for about 40 minutes.

From: New Mexico Magazine Dec-93
Posted By: PepperFool
Post Date: 5/4/99

I make homemade hot, HOT mind you, hot sauce by taking green chilies, jalapenos, and habaneras and chopping them up in a chopper or food blender.

Homemade Hot Sauce:

10 green chilles
10 jalapenos
5 or 6 habaneras

Roast green chillies in oven on broil until the skin blisters. Remove outside skin. Also roast jalapenons on broil until soft.

Chop chillies, jalapenos, and habaneras in blender. Mix well.

Use sparingly.

You can also chop nopal (sliced prickly pear) into the mix if prefered.

Remember, this is for people who really like the EXTREME.

Note:
You can buy sliced tender nopal (or cactus) in a jar. I buy mine at Walmart
under the name "Nopalitos."

Yea, hot is our style..grew habs this year.