Nac nac, nacatamales!

While my good friend Sara was here visiting us, she was set on trying Nacatamales (apparently Wikipedia informed her that they were delicious). I told Doña Aracely about Sara's dream, and she set out to find us some nacatamales para probando. Well, she ran into a couple of problems, one being that she couldn't find any that didn't use pork lard (she is convinced it is like the worse thing for your heart), and number two, no one was making them because they were all vacationing (in was Semana Santa). So what is the only solution? Making them ourselves! Thus the nacatamale tutorial began!

Nacatamales consist of maiza, which is like corn flour mixed with water, a piece of chicken, a red sauce made from achote, tomatoes, potatoes, and rice. After all of these ingredients are combined, the banana leave that you made it on is rolled up with tin foil, then tied all together. After that, they are put into boiling water for two hours. Then, when morning comes, you warm them up again and eat them, because believe it or not, nacatamales are a breakfast food!

Here are Dylan and Sara adding various ingredients to their Nacatamales




Doña Aracely showing us how to wrap them up


All of the completed and wrapped nacatamales