Turkey Tamales Recipe

Recipe By The Spruce Eats

This recipes makes good use not only of the little miscellaneous pieces of leftover turkey meat, but also of the turkey bonesand all this goodness is wrapped up in a batch of fragrant tamalesBoiling the carcass of your holiday turkey gives you not only one of the richest broths known to man, but also yields turkey lard or fat, which will go into your tamales instead of pork lard. What a wonderful way to take advantage of a part of the bird that so often just gets discardedOf course, after having helped prepare a holiday feast, you may not feel like cooking again for a while. Thats okayturkey meat, broth, and fat can be very successfully frozen, provide you package them separately and use within three months. Take them out again in late january, say, to make tamales for the feast of the candelaria, an occasion on which tamales are traditionally eaten by one and all in mexico.

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4hr 45minstotal
45minsPrep
4hr Cook
4hr 45m.total
45m.Prep
4hr Cook
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Ingredients for Turkey Tamales Recipe

  • 0.08 Roasted turkey carcass
  • 2.08-2.50 Dried corn leaves
  • 0.17 cup Masa Harina
  • 0.08 teaspoon Baking powder
  • 1/25 teaspoon Salt
  • 0.17 cup Shredded turkey meat
Nutrition
value
38
calories per serving
2 g Fat5 g Protein< 1 g Carbs< 1 g FiberOther

Current Totals

  • Fat
    2g
  • Protein
    5g
  • Carbs
    < 1g
  • Fiber
    < 1g

MacroNutrients

  • Carbs
    < 1g
  • Protein
    5g
  • Fiber
    < 1g

Fats

  • Fat
    2g

Vitamins & Minerals

  • Calcium
    7mg
  • Iron
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin A
    0mcg
  • Vitamin B1
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B2
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B3
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B6
    < 1mg
  • Vitamin B9
    3mcg
  • Vitamin B12
    0mcg
  • Vitamin C
    0mg
  • Vitamin E
    < 1mg
  • Copper
    < 1mcg
  • Magnesium
    6mg
  • Manganese
    < 1mg
  • Phosphorus
    49mg
  • Selenium
    5mcg
  • Zinc
    < 1mg
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. All nutritional information presented are estimates and not meant to substitute professional dietary advice or treatment
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Recipe By The Spruce Eats