Crazy recipe my wife came up with. She cooked an 8 pound Boston butt to make carnitas. We ate about 2 pounds of that with tortillas. What to do with the rest? Make tamales for the first time.
She used a generic masa recipe (corn flour - Maseca Tamal brand). She but she used the carnita broth instead of boiled meat water.
Soak the corn husks for two hours and lay them on a towel. Spread a thin layer of corn paste on 2/3 width. Add a couple tablespoons of meat, and roll like a cigarette. Fold over about an inch on the end.
To cook you lay them vertically in the steaming pot with the folded end on the bottom. The measuring cup in my photo is just there to fill some open space, as we didn't quite have enough to fill the pot. Steam for two hours. Almost impossible to get wrong.
Pro tip: if your steamer doesn't have enough water to boil for two hours, put a few pennies in the bottom of the pot. They will quietly jingle until the water runs out, letting you know it's time to add more.
Simple summary is just make some sort of meat prep with plenty of broth. Add broth instead of water to masa. Season according to whatever popular recipe you find on Google. Roll, boil, cool, peel eat till you pop!
If the wifey will type up her recipe, I'll post it for all to see.
