What if anything do you top your tamales with.

Meat sauce

And it's tamal or tamales. No such word is tamale

Chuy's creamy jalapeño salsa. We buy a quart of their red salsa and creamy jalapeño every Christmas Eve and use it on the Tamales too. Legit

Homemade salsa (when it is still warm) and some avocado crema or just plain crema.

Not topped but tamales with black beans in the same dish is what I like. Let the get a bit of bean/juice on each tamale bite

rilloaggie said:

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Tomatillo salsa with little chunks of avocado, best served out of a Gatorade bottle

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This is the way.

Over easy fried egg and salsa

Chili gravy or con carne

In our house, tamales are the topping for chili, not the other way around.

Chili con carne with shredded cheese

queso or chilli...depends on my mood. today was queso

Either chili or taqueria style jalapeno salsa. I've also been known to chop them and toss them into some scrambled eggs.

Tamales and eggs is a god-level breakfast.

Queso

Distant 2nd is salsa

Haha been eating them that way since abuelita first served them to me in Robstown in the early 80s. Been a minute.

Fresh salsa, Queso, or chili gravy (enchilada gravy)

New favorite is Salsa macha though

I did the red chile sauce from the video above, with a few variations:

I didn't measure the dried chiles I collected a the Mexican grocery store, just grabbed a handful of 4 different kinds and went with it. So my "red chile sauce" was more of a chocolate color.

Variations:

I added a handful of cilantro to the blender and the squeeze of one small orange.

After blending, it was fantastic but HOT, so I stepped on it a bit with liquid butter (Wings N More technique for tempering heat). It mellowed out a bit, especially after straining out the stems and seeds.

Final product was fantastic on tamales Christmas Eve and will also look really good on some enchiladas or grilled chicken later.

cmoney00 said:

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Chuy's creamy jalapeño salsa. We buy a quart of their red salsa and creamy jalapeño every Christmas Eve and use it on the Tamales too. Legit

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We love mixing those together. Didn't know they sold those by the quart.

Chili or salsa are the only two acceptable answers.