Recipes

Tamale with Alabama White Sauce

yields

4-6 servings

    Ingredients
  • 6 cups masa
  • 1 ¼ cup lard
  • 4 cups chicken stock or water
  • 2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 4 hearty pinches salt
  • Masa
  • 2 ½ cups ketchup
  • ½ cup Dijon mustard
  • 1 ½ cups apple cider vinegar
  • 2 limes, juiced
  • 1 cup Worcestershire sauce
  • ¾ cup whole grain mustard
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 jalapeño, split
  • Alabama White BBQ Sauce
  • Your favorite BBQ Rub
  • 4 chicken thighs, reserve skins to finish dish
  • Hickory and Oak Chips,Your favorite BBQ sauce (we use house made at Hog & Hominy)
  • Fried kale, for garnish
steps

For the Masa

In a large mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients. Using your hands, incorporate the lard, slowly add the water and knead until formed. Set aside.

For the Alabama White BBQ Sauce

  1. Mix all ingredients until well combined. Set aside.
  2. For the Filling
  3. Rub chicken with BBQ rub.
  4. Smoke chicken thighs for two hours at 200 degrees over hickory and oak chips to add flavor.
  5. Pull the leg meat and add BBQ sauce to your desired moistness.
  6. To assemble tamale, in a corn husk, flatten masa and fill with the smoked chicken thigh. Fold the masa over the nest and steam in large pot for 45 minutes.
  7. Top with the Alabama white BBQ sauce and fried kale and chicken skins and serve.
  • from Chefs Michael Hudman and Andrew Ticer of Hog & Hominy in Memphis

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