Tamale Pie

A family recipe for Tamale Pie

• Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
• Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 3 1⁄3 cups chicken broth
• 1  cup white wine
• 1 1⁄2 cups yellow cornmeal
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• 1  lb ground beef
• 1  onion, chopped
• 1  green pepper, chopped
• 1⁄8 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (13 ounce) can corn, drained
• 3⁄4 tablespoon chili powder

Directions

1. Heat broth ina saucepan almost to a boil. Combine cooking wine and yellow corn meal. Stir into hot broth until thickened.
2. Set saucepan containing corn meal mixture in about 1 inch of hot water in a large skillet. Cook over medium heat, covered, for 20 minutes.
3. Stir a bit of hot corn meal mixture into the eggs, then quickly stir them back into the hot corn meal mixture. Beat well and stir in Parmesan cheese.
4. Saute onion and green pepper with ground beef, stirring often.
5. Stir in garlic, salt, tomato sauce, corn, and chili powder. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
6. Heat oven to 350.
7. Grease a 3-quart casserole dish.
8. Spread 2/3 of corn meal mixture over bottom and sides of casserole dish, then fill with meat mixture. Use remaining corn meal mixture to spread over the top of the meat.
9. Bake for 50 minutes.