tamalito

plural tamalitos

1. A small tamale

   The perfect corn husk for a tamalito is about 5 inches wide at its midpoint.

   1995, Marjie Lambert, Recipes from the Pacific Rim: Regional Specialties from the West Coast, Mexico and Hawaii, Edison, N.J.: Chartwell Books, →ISBN, page 28

   4 more examples

   They make, freeze, and market Elena’s famous tortillas and tamales, tacos, enchiladas, and tamalitos.

   1958, Helen Evans Brown, “Introduction”, in Elena Zelayeta, Elena’s Secrets of Mexican Cooking, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page xii

   In the plaza there are people selling many things to eat, such as coffee, tamales, tamalitos, and tacos with cabbage, lettuce, onion and garlic added.

   1989, H[arvey] Russell Bernard, Jesús Salinas Pedraza, Native Ethnography: A Mexican Indian Describes His Culture, Newbury Park, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 548

   Sometimes the woman would say, “I’m just making tamalitos. Would you stay and have a tamalito?”

   1998, Emma Sepúlveda, From Border Crossings to Campaign Trail: Chronicle of a Latina in Politics, Falls Church, Va.: Azul Editions, →ISBN, page 147

   Beginning at one end, roll the patty or tortilla into a tamalito like a jelly roll and place it in the center of two or three overlapped chaya leaves.

   1998, Cherry Hamman, Mayan Cooking: Recipes from the Sun Kingdoms of Mexico, New York, N.Y.: Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 134