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Tamale pie

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Tamale pie, from the video Makes 12
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Ingredients
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Techniques
▶ 9:06
  • 2 tbsp cooking fat
Melt two tablespoons of cooking fat over medium to medium high heat.
Tamale pie: browning the beef in lard
▶ 9:21
  • 1 cup chopped onion
  • 1 cloves garlic
  • 1 lb ground beef
Cook the chopped onion and minced garlic, then add the ground beef, breaking up the block, and brown it.
▶ 9:39
  • 1 tsp salt
  • black pepper
Season with just under a teaspoon of salt and a couple of cracks of black pepper.
▶ 10:20
  • ¾ cup cornmeal
  • ¾ cup whole milk
  • 1 can diced tomatoes
  • ¾ tsp salt
In a second pot combine the cornmeal, whole milk, canned tomatoes and three quarter teaspoon of salt.
Cooking the cornmeal with milk and tomatoes
▶ 10:50
Cook over low heat, stirring often, for half an hour.
▶ 11:10
  • ½ can cream-styled corn
  • ½ cup sliced ripe olives
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
Stir in the cream-styled corn, the sliced ripe olives and the chili powder.
Corn, olives, chili powder and the long bakeBaking
▶ 11:58
Mix the beef mixture into the cornmeal mixture and turn it into a greased baking dish.
▶ 12:40
Bake at 300F for an hour and a half, less if the recipe has been halved.