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Chuchitos

Name: Chuchitos
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Guatemala
Ingredients: 300g Precooked Corn Flour; 60g Butter; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1 tsp Salt; 300g Chicken Breast; 3 Tomato; 1/2 Onion; 1 Red Chili Pepper; To taste Parmesan cheese; 10 Corn Husks (or aluminum foil)

Snack

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Corn dough wrapped around chicken and tomato sauce and steamed in corn husks — Guatemala's little tamales.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chuchitos are Guatemala's small tamales: corn dough is wrapped around chicken or pork and tomato sauce, then wrapped in dried corn husks and steamed. The dough is firmer than other tamales and palm-sized. Topped with tomato sauce and grated cheese, they're a Saturday dinner staple.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Saturday evening in a Guatemala City home, steaming corn-husk parcels are opened one after another and topped with red sauce and cheese.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Precooked Corn Flour 300g
Butter 60g
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Chicken Breast 300g
Tomato 3
Onion 1/2
Red Chili Pepper 1
Parmesan cheese To taste
Corn Husks (or aluminum foil) 10

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the chicken and shred finely.
Char the tomato, onion, and red chili, blend, and cook down into a sauce; mix half with the chicken.
Mix the cornmeal, melted butter, lukewarm water with chicken stock powder dissolved, and salt into a firm dough.
Spread dough on a corn husk, add chicken, wrap, fold the ends, and tie with string.
Steam for 1 hour.
Open the husks and top with the remaining sauce and grated cheese.

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