Janos Restaurant Green Corn Tamale Pie

Yield: about 15

Ingredients

• 6 ears corn
• 2 ounces Crisco
• 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups cake flour
• 1/2 pound grated white cheddar cheese
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 4 roasted, peeled and seeded Anaheim chiles finely chopped
• 3 jalapenos, finely diced
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Shuck the corn and cut the kernels away.
2. Melt the Crisco.
3. Grind the corn coarsely in a food processor and fold in the chiles and cheese.
4. Stir in the Crisco and add the flour, salt and pepper.
5. Roll the masa onto a sheet pan.
6. Bake in a 350 degreea F oven for about 30 minutes.
7. Let the tamale pie cool and cut into rounds using a No. 60 cutter, reshaping by hand as needed.

Attribution

Janos Restaurant, Tucson, Arizona