This time we offer you the best recipe for Veracruz barbecue that you have ever tasted thanks to our friend Noemi Garcia Lopez, and it is about delicious chicken barbecue tamales to repeat and repeat without stopping because they are delicious.
These Veracruz-style barbecue tamales are typical in this region of Mexico when it comes to making a typical meal such as a chicken barbecue, so if you feel like it, try them and tell us what you think.
Ingredients to make Chicken BBQ Tamales:
- 1 kilogram of thigh or chicken leg
- 1 banana leaf roll
- 50 grams of butter
- 100 grams of guerilla chili
- 50 grams of dried chile de arbol
- 3 leaves of holy herb
- 1 avocado leaf
- 1 pinch of ground pepper
- 1 pinch of Cloves
- 1 pinch of herbs
- 3 tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 pinch of salt
How to make BBQ Chicken Tamales:
Start the recipe for Veracruz-style barbecue tamales by preparing your sauce: in a saucepan, bring to a boil the guajillo chili, the dried tree chili, the tomatoes, the onion, the garlic, the cloves, the aromatic herbs and the 2 leaves of holy herb. Once your ingredients are cooked, grind them in the blender (all together without removing anything).
Now your sauce for the chicken barbecue tamales is ready, in a saucepan or large dish, put your raw chicken with salt and pepper, pour the strained sauce on it and let it marinate for at least 30 minutes. If your banana leaf is not cured, divide your roll according to the size of your barbecue tamales (per roll is enough for approximately 10). You pass the sheet already to the measure by the flame of your stove until it becomes soft, then it will take on a lighter green color.
Tip: The blade has to be smooth or it will break.
Once everything is ready, put the marinated chicken on your banana leaf with very little butter, half the holy herb, an avocado leaf and your chicken with sauce, not much or it will come out when steamed. You can tie your Veracruz-style barbecue tamales with thread or with strips of the same banana leaf but passing them through the same fire procedure so that they do not break, and you do this until you finish making the chicken barbecue tamales. Once ready, in a steamer put them to cook for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to release the flavor. If you do not have a steamer in a large pot, you can place stones, pour your water and put a ceramic or sheet plate as a base. After some time, uncover and enjoy your delicious Veracruz -style chicken barbecue tamales!
