Sentences with word «tamal»

Food Editor Rick Martinez samples a torta de tamal with chocolate atol and an almost - too - big - to - bite chorizo and egg torta.

Ensure snug closure so tamal won't open during steaming.

If you'd like to tie the tamale to make sure it stays closed, tear two long, thin strips off of a cornhusk and tie together, then wrap around the tamal making sure it goes around where the bottom and top are folded.

Once the tamales are done, the corn husks will begin to separate easily from each tamal.

(The word comes from the Nahuatl tamalii and tamal is the correct singular form, but tamale is more common.)

I would have never thought to pair a mango sauce with a tamal!