Jocon - Pumkin Seed Sauce

You can use the Jocon sauce to serve over green beans, chicken or to use as tamale sauce.


Ingredients:

• dry pumpkin seeds
• sesame seeds
• steamed corn dough (about 5oz)
• chili
• salt
• oregano
• ground annato
• pepper
• cumin

Preparation:

Slow roast the pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds. Ground to a fine powder with the chili and mix with the annato and the steamed corn dough. Add the cumin, oregano, pepper and salt. You can add some water to make the mixing easier. Cook at low temperature for about 10 minutes and add more water. Let it simmer. It must have a thick sauce consistency.

Amaranth Tamales

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds of amaranth seeds.
• 1 t of anise
• 4 T packed brown sugar
• powder Cinnamon
• 1/2 lb corn dough
• corn husks

Preparation:

Let the amaranth seeds soak for a few hours then grind them with the anis and cinnamon. Mix with the brown sugar and the corn dough. Roll the mix and cut into 3" balls. Roll each ball into an oval shape and wrap with the corn husks. (can wrap in aluminium foil to hold the corn husks in place). Steam cook for 1 hour. Serve.