Christmas is upon us, so the time has come to make hallacas. This is a long process, so we're spreading out across today and tomorrow. Today, we prepared the banana leaves and the guiso, which is the filling. Tomorrow, we'll prepare the dough, assemble the hallacas, and cook them.
Pour boiling water over them and let it sit for a few minutes
Cooper Garcia
Dry them, trim out the veins, cut them to size and sort them.
Luis Morris
Have you considered creative an account on fiver and consuming garbage for five dollars?
David Lopez
Infuse some oil with anatto.
Asher Stewart
Start cooking some onion and garlic in it.
Thomas Lee
Add bell pepper, celery, habanero, and bay leaves. In Venezuela we would use aji dulce, which is an habanero which has been bred to have no spiciness at all while retaining all its flavor. That's hard to find in the US, so I just use regular habanero.
Carson Gomez
Add giardiniera
Kayden White
Add a couple pounds of beef, a pound of chicken, a pound of pork, and some pork fat.
Michael Miller
Add capers, olives, and green onions.
Hudson Butler
Add raisins, parsley, and cilantro.
James Taylor
Add a bunch of chicken stock and pour in a bottle of chianti
Hunter Lee
Reduce it down.
Juan Evans
And skim off the oil and a bunch of the broth. This liquid will be used tomorrow to make the dough.
Matthew Gonzalez
Can't wait for our Venezuelan Christmas feast.
Luke Lopez
Are you going to save those banana leaves so you can smell them and remember how food is like in the next couple months?
Anthony Sullivan
At least read the thread before you meme
>That's hard to find in the US, so I just use regular habanero
Camden Lewis
user, what gang did you join to get such a large portion of daily rations?
Michael Taylor
Hilarious and original
Nathaniel Morales
>Venezuelan >food
OK, now I know this has to be bait. You'd have to wait in line for years to get all of those ingredients.
Anthony Anderson
do you drain out the juice?
Carson Diaz
escualido traidor de mierda chicano de pacotilla vendepatria
Jackson Diaz
>Venezuelan Christmas Food Why is there actually anything to post pictures of? Shouldn't "Venezuelan food" just be a blank image?
Ryan Hernandez
Hah.
Jack Richardson
It is so funny how all of you swallow capitalist propaganda. Right now Venezuelans are better fed than they have ever been. Of course the only ones who post this propaganda are the rich who are angry that they have to help other people.
Lincoln Hughes
always wanted to try rabbit meat
Wyatt Martinez
...
Luis Torres
what is venezuela like anyway? i had a crush on a girl from there and i always pictured her living in a tree house and swinging from tree to tree
Anthony Robinson
...
Bentley Reed
Memes aside what are the banana leaves for? Your not gonna eat them? Right?
Sebastian Richardson
Fuck off with the no food for Venezuela meme, I want to see where this is going.
Ryan Cooper
lol venezuela is poor
Joshua Johnson
>Meanwhile in America
Elijah Phillips
I’m sure Venezuelans can’t either
Jason Butler
I'm guessing he will encase the meat in dough, wrap it all up in banana leaves and bake / steam them. Pretty standard tropical food.
Also good work on the OC op. You're a cool guy in my book.
Kayden Ward
>meanwhile in Venezuela
Mason Green
looking good OP
Landon Miller
at least we have delicious fried rats to eat, what do you have?
Christopher Baker
Yes
They're wrappers
Wyatt Sullivan
Have another (You), Maduro.
Jace Martin
Depending on how poor she was that could be the way she lives It used to be that some Venezuelans where so poor they lived in the mountains but now all Venezuelans are that poor so who knows what happened to them
Eli Adams
Fuck off you butthurt tumblerina.
Jaxon Brooks
>Maduro how has he not been gutted yet
Oliver Wright
Hallacas aren't great. I have a ton in my freezer that my Venezualan friend gave me. Not a huge fan of the raisin and green olive combo. Tamales are much better imo. But merry Christmas anyway.
Brandon Perez
Beginning dough preparation
Gabriel Martin
Adding skimmed oil and broth
Easton Johnson
Dough mixed up
Adam Nelson
And formed into balls
Jordan Green
How many are you doing bro? Part of my family are Venezuelan expats and we make about 100 every year.
Wyatt Barnes
Boiling some eggs
We're doing between 20 and 40, just a small batch
Logan Evans
what is this gonna become?
Christopher Torres
Prepping the assembly line
Matthew Campbell
Fuck, you guys go all out! Feliz Navidad!
Jonathan Diaz
I am confused, what are the eggs for? I don't remember my family using eggs.
Hunter Butler
What part of Venezuela are they from? The eggs are an eastern thing.
Lincoln Reyes
laying out the adornos, which include raw bell pepper and onion, giardiniera, wine soaked raisins, olives, and sliced boiled eggs. We'll probably also add some extra capers.
Liam Sanchez
hope the OP didnt die, really enjoying the thread
Kevin Howard
raiders broke into his home to steal his food and medicine
Henry Mitchell
Interesting. Looks like a big clash of flavours to me, but I'd eat it.
Landon White
some really weak ass jokes that only prove you arent reading the thread.
David Diaz
The only acceptable shitpost in the entire thread, fucking r/t_d destroying anything close to originality, faggots can't even read past the OP with their shit attention span and reading comprehension
Carson Evans
Yeah, it seems like a flavor clash to me too, but if it's a common holiday treat then it must be good. Either way, OP is a champ for sharing this with us.
Grayson Sanchez
Assembly. First take your spread out dough on a couple leaves
Daniel Moore
Add bell pepper, onion, a slice of egg, olives, raisins, and capers. This is the adorno.
Joseph Jackson
Add the guiso
Brandon Ramirez
Fold and tie
Eli Torres
Repeat
Hunter Cox
First batch into the pot
Noah Cook
*also giardiniera
Lincoln Gonzalez
sorry, im too busy having a working economy to listen to some stateless slave having the saddest chritmas ever
Easton Wilson
We ran out of leaves, so we mixed some filling into the dough and made bollitos with leaf scraps and corn husks
Isaac Butler
First batch draining and cooling. Yes, we cleaned the sink.
Jonathan Allen
is hallacas mexican for "dog tamale"?
Joshua Watson
They look attractive. I can't wait to see a cross section.
Adam Hernandez
Rare corbyn sighting outside /jam/
John Powell
From Caracas. Although they've been abroad for so long that the recipe has probably changed a lot.
Brayden Allen
bump. please give moar op
Dominic Adams
Drained and ready
Hunter Rogers
What they look like unwrapped
Dylan Jackson
Money shot
Nathan Richardson
Lot of work for that condiment mess
Dominic Rodriguez
Looks delicious, OP. I had to settle for tamales from a local taco joint.
Michael Collins
gj op
Lincoln Morris
10/10 would eat
Noah Mitchell
excellent thread
pleb here, what do the banana leaves do? just structural support when boiling? do they impart any flavor
Noah Green
Nice bait
Jack Morales
Delightful. Thank you.
Carson Johnson
They give it a bit of flavor while holding it together. To me, the smell of the leaves is reminiscent of green tea. The best way to do it is with smoked banana leaves, but I don't have the setup to prepare that.
Ah yeah. In Caracas they do it a bit different. Do they put tomato in the guiso? Another thing we do different is eat them with green papaya in syrup. It sounds weird but works really well.
Kevin Roberts
>raisins fuck, this seemed pretty good until that part, i personally cant stand those
Lucas Phillips
>says as he shitposts on a annonymous image board during christmas instead of being with family and friends
Landon Robinson
How'd that zebra taste?
Parker Mitchell
not a fan of the ingredients used, but great work op!
Adrian Ross
What is Bolivia?
Nathaniel Williams
I remember that thread and that looked goat af. Thx for the OC.
Wyatt Johnson
Looks interesting. Have to admit I'm not sure I'd like the texture of the dough. Is it like a firmer tamale dough?
David Morris
>escualido traidor de mierda chicano de pacotilla vendepatria I can’t translate this and now I’m curious what it is supposed to say/says