Holiday Recipes

Discover holiday recipes for festive mains, comforting drinks, sides, and desserts. Browse the collection below, or start with a Mexican tamale meal.

Plan a Tamale Meal

Make red pork tamales with guajillo-ancho filling, or choose green chicken tamales. Each recipe has its own masa, yield, and steaming instructions. For the pork version, plan about 4½ hours and roughly 24 tamales; assembly pace can add time.

Split the work by preparing the pork filling the day before and refrigerating it promptly. On tamale day, soak the husks, prepare the masa, assemble, and steam. Follow the recipe’s cooling and storage guidance for anything made ahead.

Serve with champurrado de galletas Marías and finish with cinnamon-sugar buñuelos. For more seasonal choices, browse the pumpkin desserts, breads, and sides below.