Typical Costa Rican Tamales for Christmas

Ingredients:

2 ½ kg of banana leaves
1 kg of corn flour
½ kg pork post Tamales Típicos de Costa Rica para Navidad
½ kg of green beans, cooked
4 cups mashed potatoes
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup vegetable oil
1 cup lard
1 cup rice, cooked to taste with achiote
6 chicken broth envelopes
4 garlic cloves, minced
2 sweet peppers, cut into strips
1 cilantro roll
1 chicken breast
1 celery stalk
1 thyme sprig
1 hot pepper
1 carrot, cooked and sliced
1 can petit pois
1 wick roll
Salt and ground cumin to taste

Preparing:

Cook pork with garlic, thyme, celery, hot peppers and salt.
Remove meat from broth and crumbled.
Reserve the broth and strain.

Cook chicken in a little oil with achiote, hot peppers, cilantro and broth.

Separately, mix well in a pot corn flour with the mashed potatoes, oil, lard, chicken broth, salt, a little chicken and meat broth and any other condiment of your choice.

Trim the leaves and wash them well.

Place a big tablespoon of dough on two banana leaves.
Add a spoonful of rice, a piece of meat, a piece of chicken, 2 carrots slices, 1 strip of pepper, 2 green beans, petit pois, a sprig of cilantro and any other ingredients you want.

Wrap each tamale well, leaving no or too tight or too loose.
Join 2 tamales and wrap them well.
Cook in boiling water for 45 minutes.

* Reserve a bit of pork and chicken broth to the end, if the mass that gives very dry.
* The dough should be well mixed and wet, if it becomes too dry the tamal can be hard.

Christmas Special Tamales

Ingredients:

Mass:
2 kilos corn breaking mass
1 1/2 kilos lard melt
1/2 kilo pork rib
1 goose of 1 1/2 pounds

Filling:
4 cups cooked rice
3 cans chickpeas
2 cans peas (petit pois)
1 jar olives stuffed
1 pound cooked carrot, sliced
1 k vainicas cooked
4 chilli peppers, chopped
60 plums

Preparation:

Mass:
Cook
meat with all the desired condiments, and sift the broth.
Add broth to the dough and mix well with wooden spoon.
Place in the fire and cook until it boils, while moving.
Add the lard melt and season with salt to taste.
Remove from the fire.

Place one tablespoon of the dough on banana leaves.
Decorate with all ingredients.
Wrap the tamale in the leaves and tie.

Cook tamales in a large pot with boiling water for 35 minutes.