In most Latin America countries Christmas Eve is Christmas. We have had a family tradition that we haven't done for a while, but all I asked for Christmas was to make Elsalvadorean tamales. If you have eaten Mexican ones they are not the same. We made sweet and salt tamales. In the sweet ones you put chicken, raisins, plums, potatoes, hardboiled eggs. in the salt ones you put spanish olives, cappers, chicken or beef, potatoes, hardboiled eggs and on both you put recaudo on top which is blended tomatoes, green peppers, and other spices. After you wrap the tamale in banana leafs and tin foil and cook in boiling water. We had fun making them while listening to Merenque, salsa and bachata so fun! Most of my moms family came over and all of my cousins. We ate, talked, the kids did the Nativity, we sang christmas songs and then we danced until midnight. If you notice one of the wise men is really ugly its my brother wearing his Halloween mask of a old man. At midnight we all get a glass ready and yell Feliz Navidad! and give everyone a hug and drink our seven up.
In most Latin America countries Christmas Eve is Christmas. We have had a family tradition that we haven't done for a while, but all I asked for Christmas was to make Elsalvadorean tamales. If you have eaten Mexican ones they are not the same. We made sweet and salt tamales. In the sweet ones you put chicken, raisins, plums, potatoes, hardboiled eggs. in the salt ones you put spanish olives, cappers, chicken or beef, potatoes, hardboiled eggs and on both you put recaudo on top which is blended tomatoes, green peppers, and other spices. After you wrap the tamale in banana leafs and tin foil and cook in boiling water. We had fun making them while listening to Merenque, salsa and bachata so fun! Most of my moms family came over and all of my cousins. We ate, talked, the kids did the Nativity, we sang christmas songs and then we danced until midnight. If you notice one of the wise men is really ugly its my brother wearing his Halloween mask of a old man. At midnight we all get a glass ready and yell Feliz Navidad! and give everyone a hug and drink our seven up.
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