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Chicken Tomatillo Tamale Filling

{ September 22, 2006 @ 4:52 pm } · { Fillings }
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  • Shredded chix (from breast, a whole one, or whatever way you want to get it)
  • About 8-9 tomatillos (diced).
  • 3 cups of cooked black beans OR cooked spinach OR zucchini
  • Salt, pepper
  • 1, 2, or 3 pasilla chiles
  • 1 onion (chopped or jullienned)
  • 4-5 cloves garlic
  • 2 limes

If you need to cook the chicken to shred it, just boil with carrot and celery and a little oil until it starts to fall off the bone. Let it cool and put it in the refridgerator until you can pull the meat off)
Heat up saute pan, add onion, garlic and pasilla. Cook till the onion is soft. Add the diced tomatillos. Pour in a couple tablespoons of beer or water and let this cook down for 5 minutes or so. Add the beans or veggies, and salt and pepper this until it tastes good. Add whatever spices you might like. Squeeze in the juice from 2 limes. You may want to strain this in a colander, cause you don’t want a lot of liquid going into the tamales.

Vegetarian Tamale Filling

{ September 22, 2006 @ 4:51 pm } · { Fillings }
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  • 2 bunches spinach
  • 3 cups cooked black or pinto beans
  • 3-5 cloves garlic (chopped, minced, whole…whatever works)
  • 1 small onion (chopped or julliened, depends on the texture you’re going for)
  • 2 limes
  • 1 bunch cilantro (chopped)
  • Chiles…this is up to your tastes and how hot you want it (I use 2 jalepenos)
  • Salt and pepper
  • Any other veggies you have in the fridge that you need to get rid of

The filling is the main flavor of the tamale. Keep tasting it and make sure there is enough salt, or your tamales will be tasteless and boring.
Cut up the spinach and make sure to rinse it off well, steam or saute it, and put it in a colander and squeeze out all the excess water. Put this in a mixing bowl.
Start a hot saute pan, add the garlic onion and pepper. Cook this until the onion is soft. You can add some beer here to deglaze the pan if you want some extra flavor. Add the beans, and any other veggies, salt and pepper until it tastes good. Put this in the bowl with the spinach. Make sure to add salt until it tastes good.
Squeeze the juice from the two limes into the bowl. Add the cilantro. There you go!