A sweet tamale filled with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, raisins and pecans.
Pronounced [oo-CHEH-pohs ] Uchepos are fresh sweet corn tamales from the Michoacan region of Mexico. To make them you cut the fresh corn kernels off the cob and mix the fresh corn kernels with the masa dough. This mixture is applied to the fresh green corn husks (not dried husks like typical tamales) The tamales are steamed and served with just a little bit of crema of queso fresco. The tamales...
First made popular at San Francisco's Johnson's Tamale Parlor in the 1920's. Cup Tamales are little quick tamales made in small cups rather than wrapped in the customary corn husks. Tamale parlors were very popular in San Francisco in the early 1900's. Roosevelt Tamale Parlor is still open today and in fact was remodeled and reopened in June, 2006. The recipe below is from the San F...