Smoked&Baked
Knows what a fatty is.
It's likely been done before but my Google-fu couldn't find it so, the other day I thought of, tested, and learned: you can cold smoke masa!
So there's maybe a tip to those of you I've learned some from over the years lol. Smoke your proteins and smoke your masa - twice smoked tamales.
Highly recommend you test a few first, I've learned masa takes on smoke easily and when I first tried the masa after cold smoking it I thought I had way over smoked it, however after adding the meat sauce with all the peppers in it, steaming them, and later smothering with salsa it was perfectly well balanced with the smoke/tamale/salsa all adding up to goodness.
Feliz Navidad
So there's maybe a tip to those of you I've learned some from over the years lol. Smoke your proteins and smoke your masa - twice smoked tamales.
Highly recommend you test a few first, I've learned masa takes on smoke easily and when I first tried the masa after cold smoking it I thought I had way over smoked it, however after adding the meat sauce with all the peppers in it, steaming them, and later smothering with salsa it was perfectly well balanced with the smoke/tamale/salsa all adding up to goodness.
Feliz Navidad
Here's a pic at the start of the tamalada with the smoked masa and one of the bowls of chicken filling. The masa was used for all the proteins but we used non-smoked masa for the sweet tamales:
