What is a Mexican traditional meal? What does it taste like? Most cultures have holiday traditions. One of our holiday traditions his having my grandmother’s tamales for Christmas Eve dinner. In my family’s culture we have tamales every year for Christmas Eve. For as long as I could remember my grandmother has been making her delicious tamales every year.
Tamales first originated in Mesoamerica. The inside is made up of a corn dough called masa, and the outside is wrapped in corn husks. You can make different types of tamales. You can use ingredients like chicken, pork, beef, cheese, or plantain leaves. It is a traditional food that has been being made for many years. Tamales were even being made as early the pre-Columbian era. Even early Aztec,
