This masa for tamales recipe is the starting point to making the best homemade tamales! Just 5 ingredients to make light, tender and flavorful tamale dough! In a very large mixing bowl or pot, add masa harina, salt and baking powder. Combine and mix with your hands.
Maseca tamal, as you know it, has been made faster and easier to master. Maseca can be used in a variety of authentic Mexican, Central American, and South American dishes, including maseca, corn tortillas, and tamales. Maseca is also an excellent substitute for pork tamales, or any other type of tamale.
Tamales are, of course, the Mexican dish made of seasoned meat wrapped in cornmeal dough and steamed in corn- husks. The cornmeal mixture used in tamales is called masa harina. Since cornmeal is too high in carbohydrate to eat on a low carb diet, Emily found a way to make it out of almond flour and flaxseed meal.
Here is how to modify the recipe for vegan or vegetarian tamales. Switch out the lard for vegetable shortening or vegetable oil. Fry 1/4 cup of sliced white onions in vegetable oil until golden. Cool the onions to room temperature before adding it to the masa right before the masa harina. Instead of chicken stock, use vegetable stock or water.