A delight for your senses with the aroma and flavor of the hierba santa, the pumpkin seed and the ground head of dried shrimp with beans. A dish of Zoque origin that you have to try..
Preparation time: 2 hours
Ingredients
- 1 kg Nixtamalized corn dough
- 500 gr lard
Filling
- 100 gr. Onion
- 250 gr. Black beans
- 30 gr. Simojovel Chili pepper
- 150 gr. Dried shrimp head
- 250 gr. Ground pumpkin seed
- 10 pcs. Hierba santa leaves
- 20 gr. Lard
- 5 pcs. Banana leaves
- Salt
Preparation
- Add the lard and salt to the dough; mix perfectly and knead until smooth and does not stick to your fingers and save.
- Cook the beans, then fry them with the onions and then blend them with the pumpkin seeds and the shrimp head to prepare a bean sauce.
- Wash and disinfect the holy grass leaves.
- Cut the banana leaves into rectangles and pass them through a comal until they have a homogeneous shine.
- Place a hierba santa leaf on the banana leaf and spread the dough over it, then spread the bean sauce on the dough.
- Roll up and wrap in the form of a sweet and tie with strips of the banana leaf The edges.
- Cook in a steamer for approximately 50 min.
Tips:
Leave the beans with a consistent texture so that it is not difficult when making the tamales.
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