I was watching a cooking show- Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and there was a restaurant that specialized in tamales and they made this dessert tamale that I thought looked so good! So I tweaked my chicken tamale recipe and made these apple pecan tamales. #YUM. Top it with some vanilla ice cream or cool whip and watch out! You may serve this on holidays instead of pie!
The trick is not to use too much of the “juice” of the apple pie filling or the tamales won’t set well. Of course if you love a goopey, gooey pie you might want to make them with more of the juice but for a firmer tamale than you’ll want to just use the apple part.
The best part it’s very few ingredients and no rolling pie crust out! You can make the pie filling from scratch but canned pie filling tasted good and was so much less work.
- 9 corn husks
- 1 can apple pie filling
- 2 cups masa flour
- Pinch of Salt
- 1⅓ cup water (or apple juice)
- ½ cup chopped pecan pieces
- Ice Cream or Cool Whip to top
- Soak Corn husks i hot water for at least 2 hours (overnight is better)
- Drain husks and pat try
- Mix masa flour and water (or apple juice) until it forms a soft dough.
- Lay each husk on a clean surface. Starting about ½ inch from the wide end, spread about a tablespoon of dough down the husk, leaving a boarder on the sides.
- Place a few of the apples from the pie filling onto the center of the dough.
- Sprinkle with pecan pieces.
- Roll lengthwise into a tight cylinder. Fold husk at the narrow end, tying with a strip of husk to secure if necessary.
- Using a tamale steamer, set the tamales inside with folded side down.
- Bring the water to boil over medium-high heat and steam about 40 minutes. The dough will begin to pull away from the husks.
- Remove from the steamer and allow to rest a few minutes.
- Remove from husks and top with ice cream or cool whip while hot.
Using a tamale steamer is the easiest way- But if you don’t have one- use the largest pot you have and set a metal colander on top – being sure that the water doesn’t get into the colander. Set a small bowl in the middle and lean the tamales up on it with the folded side down. You want to steam them- not boil them.
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