Beat the lard in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until very fluffy and fully aerated, about 3 minutes. It may take longer if your mixer is not powerful. (A heavy-duty machine such ...

DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) -- It's that time of year when many Latino families are loading up on a golden item: masa dough for tamales. Many customers are turning to a popular Los Angeles grocery chain, ...

If you think about it, tamales are simply bundles of holiday love. Around this time of the year, scoops of masa filled with savory surprises are swaddled in corn husks or banana leaves and steamed.

DOWNEY, Calif. -- On the day before Christmas Eve, many people waited in line up to three hours to buy a holiday favorite, masa (tamale dough), at Amapola Deli and Market in Southern California.

I can see my tia drop a small ball of masa in a glass of water. It sinks to the bottom. She gets back to the giant bowl of corn dough and adds a little more broth, another measure of rendered lard.

DOWNEY, Calif. (KABC) -- On the day before Christmas Eve, many people waited in line up to three hours to buy a holiday favorite, masa (tamale dough), at Amapola Deli and Market. "Usually we would ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Time to pull out the tamaleras, crank up the Christmas tunes and get your hands in some masa. Although many of us eat tamales year-round, December is when the corn husks really fly as ...

Tradition. It's a word that gets thrown around quite a bit during the holidays -- honoring them, creating new ones and sharing them with friends and family. Inevitably, many of these traditions center ...

I have a secret skill I’ve honed over the past decade: I am an expert tamale dough maker. This may be surprising, coming from an Indian American daughter of immigrants, born and brought up in the ...

And the trick to cooking them without plantain leaves. Tamales are synonymous with Hispanic cuisine and while each country wraps, fills and cooks each version differently, the taste of tradition is ...