Description: Tamales are a popular traditional food in both Native American and Latin American cultures, often eaten around Christmas. They are prepared with corn meal dough, filled with spicy shredded meat, wrapped in corn husks, and then steamed. Keywords: american beef central chicken christmas corn dinner dough ethnic filling food harina hispanic husk latin lunch masa meal meat mexican mole native pastillitos pork sauce shredded snack south southwestern spicy steamed stuffed tamal tamale tamales traditional wrapped
