tamale balls

If you wouldn't mind sharing your recipe, I'd appreciate it. Happy New Year!

These are very good,my aunt makes them for new years eve!

Sure, no problem...

Tamale Balls

Ingredients

1 pound ground round or chuck
1 1/2 cups corn meal
1/2 cup flour
2 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 pound lean hot pork sausage (hot breakfast sausage will work as will hot Italian sausage-minus the casings)
3/4 cup V-8 juice
1 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons cumin
1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper (more or less depending upon how hot you like them)

(Mix above ingredients together - see directions below)


THEN:

7-8 cups V-8 juice
3 teaspoons cumin
3 teaspoons chili powder
3 teaspoons salt

(Mix above ingredients - see directions below)

Directions

Mix the first 10 ingredients above (listed through cayenne pepper) thoroughly. Roll into balls of desired size and place into pot.

Mix the second set (last 4 above) ingredients together, then pour over the tamale balls in the pot and cook over medium heat for 1 hour. Rearrange often so tamale balls don’t stick and burn on the bottom of the pot during cooking.

Yields: 7 dozen

report back.

Covered or uncovered on the stove?

Uncovered. Just make sure they don't stick and burn on the bottom of the pot.

i may do these for the LSU game

I just went pick up the ingredients. I am cooking these bad boys tonight. Gonna substitute some home made sausage my brother made for me

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I use a couple of cans of the hot V-8 juice in the gravy.

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Yea I used the Hot & Spicy V8

Thinking about trying these...Legit