Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken tamales. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Tamales is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chicken Tamales is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken tamales using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Tamales:

1. Take 2 Cups Maize flour (Masa harina )
2. Prepare 2 Cups Chicken stock
3. Prepare 1/3 Cup Corn oil (any vegitable oil)
4. Prepare 1/2 Kilogram Chicken
5. Prepare 1 Onion
6. Take 1 Teaspoon Pepper powder
7. Get 5 red chilli chilli Big or ancho
8. Make ready 1/4 Teaspoon cloves Ground
9. Make ready 1/2 Teaspoon cinnamon Ground
10. Take 1/2 Teaspoon cumin Ground
11. Prepare 4 cloves Garlic
12. Prepare 1 Tomato
13. Make ready Oi
14. Make ready Corn husks
15. Make ready Salt

Steps to make Chicken Tamales:

1. Soak the corn husks in warm water until soft.
2. Using an electric mixer or using hand, blend the maize flour, corn oil, salt and the chicken stock to obtain a consistent mixture.
3. To prepare filling: Boil chicken in 1 litre of water with 1 onion, salt and pepper. Let it cool and then shred chicken meat and keep it aside. Seed and wash the chillies, then cover with boiling water and soak for ½ hour.
4. Blend chillies and remaining ingredients until smooth, then fry in hot oil. Add shredded chicken and simmer for about 5 minutes.
5. Wash the corn husks, being careful not to break or split them and choose ones that will be wide enough to enclose the filling, or you can use 2 or 3 overlapped.
6. Spread about 1 tablespoon of the corn masa on the bottom part of the cornhusk. Place some of the chicken filling in the middle and fold in sides towards the centre and then the top down over the middle. Tie across the middle using corn husks to hold th flaps down.
7. Place the tamales in a steamer and cook tamales for 35-40 minutes. Check every 20 minutes.
8. The tamale is cooked when it separates easily from the corn husk.

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