Flour for Tamal Maseca

Maseca Tamal Flour by the Maseca brand can be bought online on the Mexsabores website, which ships from Milan across Italy and Europe. The product comes in 1 kg packs, ready to make authentic tamales right at home. Ordering online is the easiest way to find this original Mexican product in Italy.

Yes, Maseca Tamal Flour is designed for both sweet and savory tamales, as stated by the producer Maseca itself. The basic dough is prepared with hot broth, lard or vegetable oil, salt and baking powder, and for savory tamales it can be enriched with cumin or paprika, while for sweet versions you just adapt the filling to taste. The result is soft tamales, wrapped in corn husks and steamed.

Maseca Tamal Flour has a delicate flavor, typical of nixtamalized corn, a neutral base suited to both savory and sweet fillings. It is made from white nixtamalized corn flour enriched with folic acid, iron, zinc and vitamins B1, B2 and B3. The product may contain traces of gluten, so anyone with intolerances should check the label before use.

To make tamales with Maseca Tamal Flour, mix 500g of flour with 300ml of hot broth, 150g of lard or vegetable oil, one teaspoon of salt and one of baking powder, until you get a soft, spreadable dough. Spread the dough on the corn husks, fill it with meat, cheese or vegetables, fold it closed and steam it for about an hour. For a more creative variation you can add cumin, paprika or pepper purée.

Maseca Tamal Flour is a white nixtamalized corn flour made in Mexico by the Maseca brand, which in 1949 founded the world's first nixtamalized corn flour plant in Nuevo León. It comes in 1 kg packs and is used to make the masa for tamales, sweet or savory, just as it is done in Mexico. Maseca is today the world's leading brand in this sector.