Best Pork Tamales Recipe

Are you ready to create the best pork tamales ever? This traditional recipe has everything you need to know to cook pork tamales properly. Even though a tamales recipe pork will need quite a long time to be created, you will definitely love the result! This is one of our favorite Mexican dinner recipes. Let’s get right into it, shall we? 

Time:

6 Hours

Difficulty:

Best Pork Tamales Recipe
pork tamales recipe dish

Ingredients

  • 5 cups of water
  • 1 3/4 lbs (3/4 kg) trimmed pork (shoulder or butt)
  • 1/2 onion
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 3/4 teaspoon of baking powder
  • 1 1/2cups of chili sauce
  • 1 3/4 teaspoons of salt
  • 1/2 cup of shortening/butter
  • 3 cups of corn flour
  • 25 dried corn husks
  • Optional: 1 red bell pepper and 1 yellow bell pepper

Cooking a Traditional Pork Tamales Recipe

Serves

4

Type

Dinner

Cuisine

Mexican

Hot

Medium

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