A Fiesta for the Restivus

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I had quick and easy Mexican food for dinner tonight, which I state explicitly in case I'm every searching for "Mexican food" in the future.

Lazy people take note: This might've been the easiest dinner I've ever made, and damn yummeh.

Main: Chicken tamales with jalapeno and tomatillo, topped with 'guacamole'
Side: San Antonio Rice

Ingredients:

1 pkg. pre-cooked tamales with jalapeno and tomatillo
1 cup long grain rice
1 1/4 c water
1 12oz jar salsa
1/2 avocado
1/2 c corn
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp vegetable oil

Rice Cooker Method:

Firstly, if you plan to buy a 12 pack of tamales and freeze them, separate them first. It's not easy to work with biglumpafrozentamales. I used Central Market brand.

That said, making this meal is a breeze. Just mix the uncooked rice, salsa, corn, cumin, veg oil, salt and ground pepper (to taste) in the rice cooker, then cook as normal. When it's done, stir it once quickly and then let it sit in the warm cooker another 10 minutes before eating.

You can steam or nuke the tamales. I nuked since there wasn't a discernible 'tamale' (as in meat in a corn husk) left to steam after I ripped apart the biglumpafrozentamales.

Okay, for the 'guacamole' I just mashed up the 1/2 avocado with a bit of salsa and a dash of salt, then smeared it on the bigpileatamalemeat.

That's it!

Other Method:

You're on your own.

Cheers.