Coffee - Prune - Cream Of Wheat Sweet Tamales

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/2 liters milk
• 160 g sugar
• 1 tablespoon coffee
• 160 g uncooked cream of wheat
• 1/2 cup butter
• 8 egg yolks
• 8 egg whites, beaten to soft peak stage until ready to use
• 300 g prunes, without pits chopped
• slightly toasted banana leaves or presoaked corn husk, for wrapping

Recipe

• 1 boil milk with sugar and coffee.
• 2 once it has started to boil, add the cream of wheat gradually , stirring with a wooden spoon, until it has a compact doughy consistency.
• 3 withdraw from stove top and add the butter and egg yolks, mixing well.
• 4 next add the beaten egg whites to soft peak stage, in gradual folding motions. .
• 5 have the banana leaves lightly toasted over a stove top or burner grill , or presoaked corn leaves ready for filling.
• 6 spread about 1 scant tablespoon of dough on the center of each leaf , placing 2 or 3 chopped prunes in the center.
• 7 wrap and secure tamales and cook in a tall vapor pot for an hour.