For the rest of the ingredients, I was able to find them at other grocery stores or already had them at home, so I proceeded to the first step of the recipe: soaking the corn husks.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe corn husks sat in a pot with hot water for an hour, so while they were soaking, I proceeded to make the salsa verde. First, I placed 2 poblanos, a serrano, 2 jalape\u00f1os, a garlic clove, and tomatillos on a baking tray and put them under the broiler for about ten minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Unfortunately, the garlic got burnt, so I used an unroasted garlic clove for the next step, which was actually what the recipe called for, but I personally like my garlic roasted. However, I think it stayed under the broiler longer than a garlic clove can stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the next step, I allowed the roasted vegetables to cool before peeling their skins off and throwing them into a blender. Along with the roasted vegetables, I added salt, water, chopped onion, and a fresh garlic clove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAfter that had blended, I skipped a couple of steps in the original recipe, which calls for boneless skinless chicken thighs. My wonderful mom had made roasted chicken the night before, so I used that instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next thing I did was I put some vegetable oil in a pan and then heated up my salsa verde mixture until it was boiling. At this point I added the cut up chicken to the sauce and allowed that to simmer while I prepared the masa dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor the masa dough, I added masa flour, salt and baking powder, and mixed that with my hands. Then, I added in vegetable oil and mixed that with my hands. All this point, the dough felt like wet sand, which is exactly how Isabel described it.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThen, to fully form the dough, I added in chicken broth until it felt like dry hummus as Isabel described.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMe kneading the dough<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>The finished masa dough<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe last thing I had to do before assembling the tamales was drying the corn husks that had been soaking in hot water.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd just like that, (not really, this process took about 3 hours), I was ready to assemble the tamales! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCheck back for Making Tamales: Part Two where I assemble, steam, and finally, eat the tamales!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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