Create this pork tamale recipe with authentic Mexican flavors and wrap them in banana leaves to add a distinct flavor, color, and aroma. I grew up eating these tamales from Veracruz, where my mother ...

Learn to make a vegetarian tamales recipe by using vegetable oil in the masa for a smooth dough that is easier to spread on the corn husks when assembling the tamales. A majority of the tamale recipes ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) -- It's that time of year when many Latino families are loading up on a golden item: masa dough for tamales. Many customers are turning to a popular Los Angeles grocery chain, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Yield: 6 dozen large tamales For the basic sweet tamale dough: 72 dried corn husks to wrap tamales 4 cups shortening 1. Place ...

In pre-Columbian Mexico, women invented tamales as a portable, satisfying food to feed the roaming armies of the Aztec, Mayan and Incan tribes. But this ancient form of ''take-out'' is also one of the ...