Cabbage Tamales
World Cuisine Latin American Mexican
These are a combo of German and Mexican food that are very good. You can cook these in a pressure cooker, slow cooker, or oven, as well as prepare them to freeze and fix at a later time.
Servings per recipe: 8
Calories per serving: 341
Preparation time: 35m
Total cooking time: 1h 35m
Ingredients:
- 8 cabbage leaves
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 1/2 cups uncooked white rice
- 2 (6.5 ounce) cans tomato sauce
- 3 teaspoons New Mexico red chile powder
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chile peppers
Directions:
- 1 Freeze the cabbage leaves or blanch them for about 3 minutes in a large pot of boiling water to soften.
- 2 Place the ground beef, rice, tomato sauce, chile powder, garlic, onion, salt, and black pepper in a bowl. Mix with your hands until combined. Divide the meat mixture into 8 portions and place the meat on the softened cabbage leaves. Roll the leaves up to form logs and tuck the edges under the logs.
- 3 Place the tamales into a pressure cooker or slow cooker. Pour diced tomatoes with green chiles over tamales.
- 4 To cook tamales in a pressure cooker: seal the lid of the pressure cooker and bring it up to full pressure. Reduce the heat to low, maintaining full pressure, and cook for 1 hour. Use the quick-release function or allow the pressure to reduce naturally.
- 5 To cook tamales in a slow cooker: place the lid on the slow cooker and set it on High. Cook the tamales for 4 hours.
Nutrion facts:
| Total Fat | 15.6g | 24% |
| Saturated Fat | 6.0g | |
| Cholesterol | 48mg | 16% |
| Sodium | 579mg | 23% |
| Potassium | 490mg | 14% |
| Total Carbohydrates | 36.4g | 12% |
| Dietary Fiber | 3.1g | 13% |
| Protein | 13.7g | 27% |
| Sugars | 3g | |
| Vitamin A | 761IU | |
| Vitamin C | 21mg | |
| Calcium | 54mg | |
| Iron | 3mg | |
| Thiamin | 0mg | |
| Niacin | 8mg | |
| Vitamin B6 | 0mg | |
| Magnesium | 40mg | |
| Folate | 113mcg |
