The Best Tamale Pie

The first thing we're going to do is brown a pound and a half of ground burger beef, whatever, this is fresh, pasture-raised beef that we bought at the all-American store in our neighboring town. one of the local ranchers raises loose cattle with pretty good hamburger meat, but pound it in half, you can even make two pounds. I'm going to give you a lot of sensation there, a lot of meat there, which I know you're feeding the hungry man who's going to fight a better burger, so I'm going to brown this nice and then we'll start making our sauce and you can make any kind of sensation for your pie. of

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if you have some leftover roast pork or chicken or something like that and that would be a good leftover dish for leftover pork or beef or if you roast a chicken and use it as a filling and just make whatever kind of sauce you want.

I have some peppers from Anaheim Drive. in my pantry, but I think I'll use green chiles tomorrow. I just started working and I'm not one to put too much into it because it will be good either way. I'm going to brown this really well and then I'll come back, let's see what else we can put in to finish up so far. I'm filling 8 and instead of liking a regular chili sauce because I don't really have time, I'm going to add a good cup of fresh tomatoes and then I'm going to give it a little bit of water to start this off a little bit now.

If you need to drain the fat here, the meat of your burger, you need to do that first. I didn't make this burger meat very lean, but you want some kind of chili sauce or you know, made with chili sauce or tomato sauce or something like I said, just make the filling yourself, use whatever you want when I can go to make

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s. I like to make pork tamales and I have a recipe. for that and I have a video for that it is a titular video and I leave the link below for that making tamales I will tell you about their act of love that is for sure because it is a they are very good and we love them, but it is a job, okay, now I'll take.

I have about a quarter of a cup of taco seasoning. Here you can use a store bought one or use something you have prepared yourself, just stir it well and that will give you. that taco flavor always has cumin and garlic and chili powder and all that and an onion powder a little bit of paprika and if you want you can add because I'm going to add a little more garlic powder we love a lot of garlic so I feel a little more garlic and I'm going to add a little more ground cumin. I love cumin so much that I add it and even put it in my flour when I make fried chicken. a little to dredge my chicken and it gives it a very good flavor.

I love the smell of cumin. Okay, what's the smell? Get it now, last but not least, you can put any type of chili here, but I'm going to cut green chilies. I saved it as jalapenos or whatever we like the taste of green chiles because we don't like much heat. I put we grew a bunch of pretty jalapeños the year before summer for the end and I put a lot of jalapenos and I don't know if we'll ever have all eight of them and they just start giving them away. I guess we just don't eat many.

Okay, I feel good. I'll try it and see if maybe it just needs a little bit. more something-something no, that's pretty good, that will make a really good tamale pie, okay, I'm just going to let this warm up a little bit, turn off the heat and then we'll start making our or masa. Okay, now we're going to make our dough and it's going to be the topping for our tamale pie and this is my favorite as far as masa gallina goes. I get it from Amazon and will leave the link below. This is from Bob. Red Mill Golden Flower Organic Golden Corn Flour Masa Flour, you don't want to get my mix, you just want just the corn flour and this is by far my favorite, it has a very rich masa flavor, it's the closest thing to that.

It tastes like a tamale when are you going to get it, this is coming, let's see one, two, three, four. I don't remember that there are four bags of six in a box when I order it, but you'll go through this if you do. You're going to love it so much that you're going to go through this monster and you can even make cornbread, just regular cornbread with this monster sand, it tastes really good, so anyway we have the masa gallina and we have baking powder . stick of melted butter I have a cup and a half of chicken broth here and when I just need some chicken broth for a recipe I always have it on hand, it's organic better than the bullion roast chicken base now every lot In many places It sells better than Boyan, but it's hard to find organic products and if you can't find them, you just get the regular kind.

I ordered this at Drive Market. I have membership there and all the mango is organic and at good prices, so this anyway. It's very handy to have and I always have a jar in the pantry so you need it and you need a little bit of salt and that's all you need so we're going to start mixing our dough. I have my oven preheating to 350. I have two cups of your dough I need a heaped teaspoon of flavor in the baking powder and a teaspoon of salt. I'm going to stir this up a bit. Get it now.

You can use oil. You can use lard. But I'm going to use. a stick of butter last time I made this I used lard of course it turned out so good this time I'm going to use a stick of butter and see which one I like better so if I was using lard or shortening it would be a half cup, okay, now I'm going to put my melted stick in there a little bit better, start this off right. Danny had just accessed the rest. My stove with my ovens ready the first time I made this, he almost likes the whole pan full because he loves tamales and this is as close to a tamale as you can get, but my Jason here now I'm going to take my cup and a half of chicken broth and I'm only going to pour about half a cup at a time because you may not need it all it just depends on the weather sometimes you're another paper cut and when I get there I'll show you the consistency it smells so good I eat tamales and I had, oh, I think it was my daughter, he said.

Mom, could you make this casserole and still put corn husks on top of the dough before putting it in the oven? I told her we could try it and she thinks she would even give it more tamale flavor, so I'll try it. Next time I go shopping for corn husk tamales, I'll start with a little more broth. It looks like it will take the hook and a half and if you accidentally put too much liquid in you will only get a little bit of squid. just a little bit of masa in its time so it goes back into the room so it has the consistency that you need so this is really good so taking half was good when I make tamales.

I had to make sure I had a full day. For me, nothing else happens either in the garden or outside doing anything, not a lot of housework or a lot of laundry, I just had to have one day to dedicate to making tamales and I usually make my pork and put my pork in a pot. slow cooker, well just if you watch my video you'll see and this is how I prepare my meat the night before, so we have our masa, we have our masa ready and I'm going to clean things up here and then we're going to prepare our tamale pie, You'll see how easy, okay, let's go for this tamale.

I made it in the oven, so the first thing I want to do is put mine in a cast iron skillet. I think it tastes better. I don't know, but if you don't have one, you don't have to put it on. I think I'm pretty sure you could make it in a nine by thirteen casserole dish, so I buttered the bottom of my cast iron skillet and I'm going to put my filling down here. I'll just spread it well. This kind of stuff comes together pretty quickly, if you think about it, I mean, it didn't take me long to mix it up.

My third cook. Of course, you feel if you're going to use some leftover pork and stuff, you know you want it to simmer a little bit now, if you want a thicker filling than this, you can do like I said, two pounds of meat of hamburger. It'll be either two pounds of pork or chicken or whatever. I'm just using what I have now. This is optional. I'm going to put some cheese. Just a little. Is your mouth watering? I know something, you may have never had tamales and if you haven't, you're missing out because they are some of the

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I love all my mornings. The area where I grew up until I was 13 outside of Houston. Alive. next to the store some of the

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cooks made homemade tamales tomorrow they made homemade tortillas every day because that was bread and I remember that Miss Benavides cooked what she tasted in a large old pot and any seasoning she put in it smelled very good. Of course, I haven't really tried it, but it didn't smell bad, but I would walk in there and watch her caress those homemade tortillas and they were so good and to this day to me there is nothing better than a homemade tortilla. tortilla that's a fact I could eat a homemade tortilla instead of bread anytime I'm just going to spread this dough she wanted to put a little bit of oil on you and buy my spoon and help her don't you want it to thicken in places so keep spreading it to cover all that side.

Danny and I love enchiladas and we like our enchiladas topped with chili con carne, the cheese melted on top, that's why we like them with Waka moly and sour cream, yeah, that's it. just for me you can't be better now I may be a bean eating corn bread, like a country girl, but I tell you I love Tex-Mex and I love good Mexican food, there's just nothing better for me, I just have to continue spreading. until you get it, just bring it from the middle and keep extending it to the sides. I'm going to make this and put it in my oven at 350 and it should take about 30 minutes to cook.

I want it to brown on top and mr. Brown will be so excited that he just got home from work because he loves these things, so let's put them in the oven, that's what. Well, I guess it's tamale pie because it smells like tomorrow. I can smell all the muscle. smell that dough, it does it, so it took me 30 minutes at 350, you see, I have a good run and the first time I like this I told him you were right, I almost did it. The chili was gone, the boss I took it for lunch the next day, but I almost want to say you're no good, it's not the Omega molecule man, that's the truth tamal without having to do all the work that comes with the tamales, well, we know it's a lot of work, right?

Like I said, it's not a homemade tamales but it's close I really like it a lot now we have like I said before we have a video making tamales and I'll put that link down in the description box. are you ready to eat some of this? I'm hungry. I just arrived I'm ready you know more or less this makes you a salad or something like that on the side and it's more or less it's very filling yes I don't know well no really not really it's good no I also put more things that I learn today I mean, It's so good that it left good tamales but so good, okay, like oh thank you, your followers will be very surprised.

I know that's what I'm telling you, you'll be surprised. how you need this and it tastes as good as it smells, that means yes, better, yes, 30 minutes, it was ready, sure it's good and golden brown on the top. I stuck a knife in it and it came out clean, so it's good and done, and it'll be really good. So let's have a glass of tea, sit down and have dinner. If you like this video, give us a thumbs up because it really helps us and the guys, you should try it, it's good. things God bless you all