Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes
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Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes
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These Sweet Corn Tamale Cakes taste EXACTLY like the infamous appetizer from Cheesecake Factory! This is a copycat recipe like no other! It's spot on. Best part is... they're gluten free just like the restaurant serves.
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Ingredients
Salsa Verde
- 2 tomatillos diced, large
- 1 mild green chilies 4-oz can
- 1 green onion minced
- 4 Tablespoons cilantro fresh
- 1 1/4 /4 teaspoons sugar
- 1/2 /2 teaspoon cumin
- 1/4 /4 teaspoon salt
- black pepper pinch
Tomato Salsa
- 1 tomato diced, medium
- 2 Tablespoons onion diced
- 2 Tablespoons cilantro fresh
- 1/2 /2 teaspoon lime juice
- 1 jalapeño seeded and minced, small
- 1/4 /4 teaspoon salt
- black pepper dash
Southwestern Sauce
- 1/2 /2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon water
- 3/4 /4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 /2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 /4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cayenne pepper pinch
- 1 onion powder pinch
- 1 salt Dash
- 1 garlic powder dash
Tamale Cakes
- 1 cup corn coarsely chopped in food processor, frozen, sweet
- 1/2 /2 cup corn kernels frozen, sweet
- 3 Tablespoons sugar
- 6 Tablespoons butter softened
- salt pinch
- 1/2 /2 cup corn flour NOT corn meal, aka masa harina flour, 2 Tablespoons
Garnish
- sour cream
- avocado diced
- cilantro chopped, fresh
Instructions
- Prepare salsa verde by combining all ingredients in blender by pulsing until smooth with small amount of chunks. Chill.
- Prepare tomato salsa by combining all ingredients. Chill.
- Prepare southwestern sauce by combing all ingredients and whisking until smooth. Chill.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Prepare tamale cakes by adding all ingredients, except kernel corn, together and mixing well. Add kernel corn last and mix by hand.
- Lightly spray 5 muffin tins with cooking spray. Add 1/2 cup wet mixture to each tin. Press firmly into tins without packing too tightly.
- Bake for 25 minutes on middle rack.
- Invert muffin tins onto baking sheet to release tamale cakes after cakes are fully cooked. (hint- let them sit for about 1 minute when they come out of the oven to prevent them from breaking).
- Serve warm with salsa verde underneath cake, Southwest sauce drizzled on top and tomato salsa spooned over sauce. Garnish and serve.
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