Tamales 101
Subtitle: A Beginner's Guide to Making Traditional Tamales
By: Alice Guadalupe Tapp.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: November 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781580084284
Subjects: Main courses; Regional & Ethnic - Mexican; Cooking; Cooking / Wine; Spain; Methods - General; Regional & Ethnic - Spanish; Stuffed foods (Cookery)
Description: Corn-husked bundles of fresh masa plump with wonderful combinations of sauces, meats, and vegetables—tamales are a simple and delicious staple of Mexican and Southwestern cuisine. TAMALES 101 will show beginners how to make masa dough as well as fold and steam tamales to perfection. Then, once you've mastered the basics, you'll be whipping up batches of Chicken Tomatillo, Chorizo Potato, Vegetable Curry, and Greek tamales in no time, with recipes for nearly 100 traditional, vegetarian, vegan, and specialty tamales and sauces. Includes 60 food and spot photographs and 15 illustrations showing, step by step, how to spread masa and wrap and tie tamales.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: xiv; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: Assembling the Tamales
title: 15; label: The Masas
title: 37; label: The Sauces
title: 47; label: Traditional Mexican Tamales
title: 63; label: Vegetarian and Vegan Tamales
title: 79; label: Specialty Tamales
title: 97; label: Regional Tamales
title: 121; label: Low-Fat Tamales
title: 153; label: Sweet Tamales
title: 161; label: The Basics
title: 177; label: Bibliography
title: 182; label: About the Author
title: 185; label: Index
title: 186