HOT TAMALES IN A CAN RECIPES

Steps:

• Run onions, celery, garlic, and bell pepper through your food processor until they are finely minced.
• In a very large bowl, combine ground meat, minced veggies, chili powder, cayenne pepper, and salt. Mix together thoroughly using your hands. Add in the rotel, 1 cup of corn meal, and 1 can of tomato sauce; mix again. (You need to mix the wet ingredients in separately from the spices so that the spices don't all clump together in one spot.)
• Lay out your papers beside two baking sheets or trays. Add 1 cup of cornmeal to one baking sheet, to roll the tamales in (the other one is to stack completed tamales on.)
• Pinch off some of the meat mixture, and form into a ping pong sized ball. Roll it in the cornmeal, coating it as thick as you can. Place in the center of a tamale paper on one side, and roll. The ball should squish into a log, leaving an inch of the wrapper empty on either end. Press down the top of both empty ends, and fold the two sides of the ends in before folding them under the tamale.
• Repeat with the remainder of the meat mixture. After a few, you get the feel of how much meat it will take to fill the wrapper up enough. We got 75 tamales out of one batch, it depends on how big you make them.
• In a large dutch oven, pour in the 1/2 cup oil and 1 can tomato sauce. Cover with a layer of tamales, then a can of sauce, and a sprinkle of chili powder, repeating until you run out of tamales. Fill the pan with water until the tamales are just covered.
• Bring to a boil, lower the heat and simmer 2 - 2 1/2 hours till done, adding water if necessary.

Steps:

• "Brown the meat and drain off the fat. Add the onion, garlic and salt. Mix well and put mixture through a food grinder using the finest blade. To the meat mixture add the 5 tablespoons of chili powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 cups of beef bouillon, cayenne pepper and 2 tablespoons flour. Simmer over medium heat about 5 minutes until thick. Then it is ready to be spread on the meal. Mix the last 4 ingredients together until smooth and of a consistency to spread. Cut parchment paper into 6 inch x 3 inch strips. Spread meal mixture about 1/4 inch thick. Allow enough space at each end and down one side of the paper to turn these over. Through the center of the meal dough spread about 2 teaspoons of the prepared meat mixture. Roll up, folding sides and the ends of paper. Into clean pint canning jars pack tamales into jar. To prevent difficulty in packing the last tamale, place it between to knives and slip it into the center of the pack. (I usually get 6 to 7 tamales in a jar.) Add 1 tablespoon of water to each pint before sealing. Put on lids and bands screwing them down firmly tight, Process in pressure canner at 10 pounds of pressure for 60 minutes."