tamalito
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edittamalito (plural tamalitos)
- A small tamale
- 1958, Helen Evans Brown, “Introduction”, in Elena Zelayeta, Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page xii:
- They make, freeze, and market Elena’s famous tortillas and tamales, tacos, enchiladas, and tamalitos.
- 1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 548:
- In the plaza there are people selling many things to eat, such as coffee, tamales, tamalitos, and tacos with cabbage, lettuce, onion and garlic added.
- 1998, Cherry Hamman, Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdoms of Mexico, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 134:
- Beginning at one end, roll the patty or tortilla into a tamalito like a jelly roll and place it in the center of two or three overlapped chaya leaves.
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edittamalito m (plural tamalitos)
- diminutive of tamal
- (Belize) duckanoo
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