This is a picture of a traditional Colombian tamale - nothing like Mexican ones, these are much bigger and are wrapped in some kind of leaf.
I have encountered these in Colombia before, but wonder if they are related to Easter at all.
Oscar's Tia gave us these - with the leaves on, you sit them in a pot of boiling water for about 20 minutes, unwrap and wallah! inside you'll find chicken, corn, carrots and, you guessed it, an egg!
Very cool... how did it taste?
ReplyDeleteoh, it's good!
ReplyDelete...except, that there are too many corn kernals inside - very big korn kernals, and it just got to be too many.
but overall, very good.
how fun an easter tamale
ReplyDeleteIn Chinese cuisine we have something very very very similar called a "zongzi".
ReplyDeleteWe eat it to commemorate one of our oldest poets who jumped into a river after being labeled a traitor. The legend says that townspeople threw these "zongzhi" into the river to deter fish from eating his body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zongzi