Vegan comfort food that doesn’t taste vegan? In individual servings? With a cheese option as well for non-vegan (although vegan cheese could be used)? Keep reading…..
Mini Tamale Pies
Ingredients:
- 1½ cups or 15 ounce can pinto beans, rinsed and drained, preferably organic
- 15 ounce can diced tomatoes, preferably organic
- 2 green bell peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- 1½ cups frozen corn, preferably organic
- 1½ tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp granulated garlic
- ½ tsp ground cumin
Cornmeal Topping –
- 1 cup cornmeal, preferably organic
- ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 cups water
Directions:
Add the pinto beans through garlic to a small saucepan, heat over medium-low for 40 minutes, stirring periodically. Taste for salt, add as desired.
Near the end of the time preheat oven to 350° and place baking dishes on a rimmed baking sheet.
Add the cornmeal topping ingredients to a tall saucepan, bring to a boil over medium heat, whisk until thick.
Divide the filling between the dishes, spread the cornmeal on top, with a small spatula.
Bake for 45 minutes, or until golden on top.
Non-Vegan option:
If desired, top with grated cheddar cheese before baking,
Makes 4 to 8 pies, depending on size. I made 4 individual size ones and 2 in custard size ramekins. This served 3 adult appetites, 1 toddler plus leftovers for me the next day.
~Sarah
I totally want to dig into that! I love anything tamale!
this sounds yummy! and pretty easy at that – thanks for the idea 🙂
I can’t remember if I’ve all ready asked you if you would be willing to consider joining the Virtual Vegan Potluck on Nov 1st, World Vegan Day. I’m co-chair 🙂 I’d love to have you there. It’s really simple and should drive a fair amount of traffic and new blogging friends to your site.
http://www.virtualveganpotluck.com
Yes, you did! 🙂 I was looking at the site yesterday and forgot to send my thingie in!! Will go do now 😀
Sorry, I’m asking all my best blogging buds and couldn’t remember who I’d asked 😉 Yay!
All signed up! Thank you so much for the invite 🙂
Awesome Sarah! You’ll love it!!! Thanks!
This looks great. I love the idea of a corn topping rather than a layer that gets a little soggier than I usually want it too. Thanks!
Yes! The pies I had before were always lumpy/soggy under 🙂
Cute! Love tamales, hate the work.
No kidding….tasty to eat, not to make 😉
Love tamales!! But the usual TexMex version with…um, pig…really grosses me out. You think they make non-gmo cornmeal? I would totally try this!
Yes! Supposedly all of Bob’s products are. http://www.bobsredmill.com/faqs.html#GP4 So now I am feeling good about using their polenta.
http://www.bobsredmill.com/organic-medium-grind-cornmeal.html
http://www.bobsredmill.com/medium-grind-cornmeal.html
http://www.bobsredmill.com/corn-grits_polenta-organic.html
http://www.bobsredmill.com/gluten-free-corn-grits_polenta.html?&cat=
OH! Good to know!
If you keep this up…you may turn me vegan! Wow – this looks amazing!