Cabbage Tamales

Ingredients

• 8 cabbage leaves
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1½ cups uncooked white rice
• 2 (6.5 oz) cans tomato sauce
• 3 tsp New Mexico red chile powder
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• ½ cup chopped onions
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 (10 oz) cans diced tomatoes with green chile peppers

Directions

1. Freeze the cabbage leaves or blanch them for about 3 minutes in a large pot of boiling water to soften.
2. Place the ground beef, rice, tomato sauce, chile powder, garlic, onion, salt, and black pepper in a bowl. Mix with your hands until combined.
3. Divide the meat mixture into 8 portions and place the meat on the softened cabbage leaves. Roll the leaves up to form logs and tuck the edges under the logs.
4. Place the tamales into a pressure cooker or slow cooker. Pour diced tomatoes with green chiles over tamales.

To cook tamales in a pressure cooker:

Seal the lid of the pressure cooker and bring it up to full pressure. Reduce the heat to low, maintaining full pressure, and cook for 1 hour. Use the quick-release function or allow the pressure to reduce naturally.

To cook tamales in a slow cooker:

Place the lid on the slow cooker and set it on High. Cook the tamales for 4 hours.