Ingredients

How to make it

  • Prepare Chicken: Place chicken in a Dutch oven with water, add salt, garlic clove and onion
  • Stew until skin is easily removed from chicken or about 1 1/2 hours
  • Remove garlic and onion
  • Bone the chicken, remove skin, drain, and save all the stock
  • Dice chicken, return to the Dutch oven. Set aside
  • Prepare Masa: In a large mixing bowl, combine masa harina, shortening, and 2 cups chicken stock
  • Mix masa until it is smooth and spreadable. Set aside
  • Prepare Chili Sauce: Heat the oil and brown flour
  • Dissolve chili powder in chicken stock (if you run out of stock, use water)
  • Add to the browned flour
  • Mix, bring to fast boil
  • Reduce heat and add seasonings
  • Add this mixture to cooked and cubed chicken in Dutch oven
  • Cover and simmer for 15 minutes
  • Prepare Red Enchilada sauce: Soak chiles in hot water for 30 minutes
  • Use gloves to cut open chili and remove seeds and stems
  • Blend or food process the softened chiles with a little water
  • It should be paste like
  • Fry garlic in olive oil
  • Add flour to make a roux, cooking a couple of minutes
  • Remove from heat
  • Gradually add chicken broth, making a gravy consistency
  • Add the chile paste, spices and cocoa
  • Cover and simmer 1 hour OR make up ahead of tamale making day
  • NOTE: at this point I strain my sauce to remove any bits of non processed chiles...makes a nicer sauce!
  • Assemble the tamales: Soak the coffee filters in water to soften
  • Grab about three tablespoons of masa to spread over the filter as you hold the filter in the palm of your hand. Use a water bowl to keep your fingers moist for easier handling.
  • Spoon about 2 tablespoons seasoned chicken meat over the masa and fold over each side of filter, snugly. Then fold the 'tail' or bottom of the filter upward
  • Set the tamales in a large tamale steamer (got my 32 qt tamale steamer at Walmart for about $20) and steam over water for about one hour or until the masa is easily removed from the filter
  • Enjoy your tamales with the Red Enchilada Sauce poured over!

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    " It was excellent "
    snowcat17 ate it and said...
    oh yeah, my sister's husband makes tamales and He is gonna love this one, as do I, Beautiful! HIGH FIVE FORKS!!
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    " It was excellent "
    choclytcandy ate it and said...
    i absolutely love the idea of using coffee filters. never thought of doing that. thanks for the post and ^5! i'm going to try this one when i have my tamale making party.
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