Tamale tradition amid the holidays in the Central Valley

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- In the midst of Holiday Cheer, tamales are the 1 repast astir families look guardant to.

"It's portion of the tradition, it doesn't substance wherever you are at, erstwhile you deliberation astir tamales, you deliberation astir Christmas, you deliberation astir the season, you deliberation astir family," said Coke Lozano.

Eating tamales during the vacation play is simply a contented successful astir Hispanic homes, and making them is portion of it.

Coke Lozano from Visalia remembers learning the creation down the tasty trade from her precocious mother.

"She had her ain recipe, which she ne'er wanted to share, truthful I utilized to get up early, spell to her house, and ticker her," said Lozano, "Eventually, I was capable to maestro the mode she made her tamales."

The process is lengthy, but Lozano says it's ever worthy it, particularly due to the fact that it brings families together.

"A full speech erstwhile we are making tamales is astir my mom. You are making memories that past forever."

When Lozano can't marque them, she orders from Bobby Salazar's Taqueria successful Fresno...and isn't the lone one.

For much than 25 years, hundreds of orders person been placed for tamales.

Owner Bobby Salazar says their look is personal, dating backmost decades.

"Something that I got from my grandparents, their recipe, they taught my ma and dad, and it each goes into preparing masa and mole and the meat," said Bobby Salazar.

Every tamal is made from scratch successful their factory, from reddish pork to greenish chili and cheese.

"I americium ever close successful determination making them astatine the parties, oregon sometimes I spell to the factories wherever we marque them," said Salazar.

Salazar is arrogant of the authenticity of their nutrient and invites the assemblage to effort their well-known tamales, which are disposable year-round.

"I marque my own, but if I don't marque them, I volition travel to Bobby's," said Lozano.

If you would similar to bargain tamales from Bobby Salazar's Taqueria, you tin telephone the edifice to spot an order.