The tamal

Mexican culture has a lot of sites, very much like

a kaleidoscope that I could talk about.

With such a rich culture, I could talk endlessly about

its history and clothes and that importance that we give

to certain colors its unique traditions, like Day of the

Dead or the variety of dishes that we have in

terms of food.

But today I want to focus on food, particularly a

dish that has presented both time and place on that

dish is at a mall at the mall, or community

is a destructive served hot.

But what is a tamar at the Molly's dough made

of steam corn with a filling inside, usually wrapped in

a corn or banana leaf.

And the feelings could be from many things, from savory

to sweet.

The savory fillings are the most common, especially those known

as rajas, which is at this picture below, which are

the cheese with Serrano peppers or the birthdays, which are

green spicy sauce, which shredded chicken.

Some of the most well known sweet are those dyed

in pink with raisins inside.

Sometimes it comes with other dried fruit.

Then you also have the sweet corn ones.

But while this may be the most common feelings people

get very creative when it comes to thematic feelings.

Any kind of meat with any kind of sauce can

be made for slavery.

Tamar and any kind of dried food with a little

bit of sugar can be made into a sweet woman.

So when someone decides to make that, you shouldn't take

the longest making the feelings for the most part there

will be two bulls in front of them.

It will be one with a feeling on the other.

With a prepared, though, the person will grab a corn

leaf and spread some dough in it, but not too

much. And in the middle, a spoonful off the filling.

Then they'll wrap it just like this one.

This cooked them out.

They'll wrap it here and on the end and make

it into a little pouch.

On that way, they put it inside a cooking pot

with a lot of other ones for it to cook

with steam.

Yeah, but even though they may mitt sound complicated to

make, they're fairly easy on.

Once a person has old ingredients, they're ready to go.

In fact, the making off and storing off.

Tamales is so simple that they have been around for

centuries. In Mexico and in other countries, the tamales were

made but the ingenuousness, because the door was so easy

to make and then say you already cultivated a lot

of corn.

They could also reuse the corn leave to wrap the

dough for you to create its own steam inside a

clay pot and so recorded paintings.

Historians believe that the miners were also made to feed

soldiers, since they were easy to story in a pouch,

and it's easy to believe what they look like this.

But that's not all that we know about tamales.

In fact, when Mexico was being colonized by the Spaniards,

the Spaniards brought Christianity to the country.

Some believe that the Spaniards adopted the usage of due

to its convenience, and it's not so hard to believe

that this was the meaning of how that, and it's

not so hard to believe this when the meaning of

the now has more of a religious connotation.

Most Hispanics cooked tamales around Christmas time on this tradition

has been adapted and adopted to current times, since it

has now become a family tradition to make when everybody

gets together.

But the tamales are also cooked in the first week

of February, and this is right after we'd another bread

that is called a rosca Onda Rosca has a more

religious connotation due to Jesus.

In reality, the tamales were in in February by the

indigenous on the colonizer decided to keep that tradition as

in good faith of combining both Christianity and pagan traditions.

Nowadays, it's a dish that is mainly eaten during the

holidays, but you can still find them in restaurants.

One interesting thing to mention about tamales we saw, is

how it's cooked and its history is how in different

regions in Mexico they make the in very different ways.

But this dish is not exclusive to just Mexico.

You can find this dish a swell in Central and

South America, however, just like how different regions in Mexico

make the is differently.

So do they in other countries to start off in

the region of Michoacan, which is that the Mexican state

they call the tamales on their smaller in size usually

sphere size and they're more likely wrapped in banana leaves

the way to get robbed.

However, I either triangular circular in shape.

And then there's also in the state of Oaxaca.

The tamales are also wrapped in banana leaves.

However, those airway bigger usually the ones that people recognize

the most are the corn leaves on.

That's the ones that get used and cook the most.

But if we start comparing them to the automatics in

other countries, then we start seeing bigger differences.

For example, in Nicaragua, the tamales are wrapped in plantain

leaves on their feelings are more complex.

Just of how we picture a main dish refers as

a has a full division side with rise onion, tomato,

peppers and potatoes.

And then we have the Guatemalan tamales referred us to

Cheetos. These somebody's air different due to the way the

dough is made.

A tradition Mexico has planed, though, while on Guatemalan tamales

has a tomato spiced sauce mix in with the dough,

which changes the color to our orange hue.

But they still come with meat fillings.

So out of all the dishes in Mexico and in

other Latin American countries that the man has become one

of the most versatile dishes.

Today, not only has this dish been adopted to a

different time for a different use, but it's a dish

that has retained tradition amongst a large culture.

We see this dish in other countries, too, not just

in Latin America constantly evolving but also keeping that spark

of uniqueness for keeping the tradition alive for centuries on,

also making it a great bonding experience between friends and

family.

The tamal

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