Easy Tamale Casserole

October 26, 2018

Easy Tamale Casserole

Hi, Sweet Friends!

It's Friday and we are making Tamale Casserole!
We buy our Tamales fresh from a wonderful lady once a month. These also freeze well in the corn wrappers, placed into a freezer bag.

On to the delicious recipe!
Ingredients:
1 dozen/12 Tamales
Stag Turkey Chili (or Regular)
Hormel Turkey low fat Chili ( or Regular)
1 quart jar/32 ounces Salsa (fresh, canned, or homemade)
Taco Seasoning Mild (you can choose the heat you like)
Shredded "Mexican Blend" Cheese

Directions:
1. The tamales are wrapped and cooked in the corn husks/corn wrappers and they should look something like the photo below.

Fresh Tamales

2. Remove the Tamales from the corn wrappers as shown below.

To do this, unroll the husk away from the tamale, carefully.

They will come out looking like this above.

3. Now cut the Tamales into chunks for the casserole.

I cut mine about 1inch pieces.

3. Place the tamale pieces into a large bowl.

Homemade Salsa goes perfectly in this casserole!

Fresh Salsa

4. Open the cans of chili and the salsa and pour them into a large bowl.

5. Open the package of Taco Seasoning. This one is from Kroger and is Mild. You can increase the heat with a stronger level of heat in the Taco Seasoning.

6. Pour the Taco Season into the bowl with the chili and the salsa. Mix well to incorporate the Seasoning Mix.

7. Either spray the 9x13 inch baking pan with Olive or Coconut cooking spray OR

Line the pan with Aluminum Foil.

For this recipe I prefer to use the Aluminum Foil for easy clean up.

8. Now layer the baking pan with a layer of chili mix.

9. Add a layer of Shreaded Cheese.

10. Add a layer of Tamales, cut into 1 inch pieces.

11. Add a layer of cheese

12. Add a layer of the Chili mixture.

13. Add a final layer of cheese.

14. Add all the remaing cheese to the last top layer of the casserole like shown below.

15. Bake the Tamale Casserole at 350* F
for 1 hour.
If you don't like browned cheese, you can cover the whole casserole with Aluminum foil to keep it from browning.

The Tamale Cassore is hot and ready. Do be careful as the cheese has a tendancy to be very gooy.

Tamale Casserole

Or you can leave it in a few minutes longer for a crispy cheesey edge!

Serve this delicious casserole topped with shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, chopped tomatoes, chopped onion, and a bit of salsa!
ENJOY!

To Make your own Tamales:
YUMMLY RECIPE HERE

Enjoy!
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