Red Tamales Filling(Pork or chicken)

* Exported from MasterCook II *

RED TAMALES FILLING (Pork or chicken)

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Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Fillings & Frostings Mexican
Main Dishes

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 kilogram pork (the part as you wish) -- cut into strips
9 cloves Garlic
5 each sweet peppers
1 tablespoon cumin seed -- freshly ground
4 chiles colorados (dry red chiles)
salt
1/4 cup vinegar, cider

Boil the pork in wate with salt and keep the broth for to use when prepare the
"masa" for tamales.

Prepare a sauce with chiles, put in hot water one hour or cool water all the
night, wash the chiles and discard the seeds, add the chiles and ground with
the vinegar.

Mix and ground the garlic cloves, cummin seed and sweet peppers, fry them in a
little amount of vegetable oil, add the salsa maded with the chiles and
vinegar, cook 20 min, add the pork meat and some broth. Cook for 20 min more.
Let cool and use for tamales.

You can prepare this recipe with chicken.

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