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I can never find banana leaves to make tamales or pasteles. I usually wind up making them with corn husks. I have made an order for them online in the past but they always show up half rotted away. Does anybody know where to get these that are good quality?
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I've never gone looking for banana leaves. I have heard you can buy them fresh or frozen at Asian grocery stores. In my area we have lots of ethnic grocery stores - Asian, Hispanic, African, etc. I don't make tamales so I don't really know, but is making them with banana leaves typical or traditional? If so I would think that you could buy them at a Hispanic grocery store. If they don't sell them, they may have a good suggestion on where to buy them locally.
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Some areas make the tamales with corn husks, but others use banana leaves. Personally, I think the banana leaves make all the difference. I'll try to get together a tamale recipe and post it. Pasteles I consider even better, but there is A LOT of prep work involved in them.
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Speaking of banana leaves, I read somewhere that Dennis Rodman was once given some dish wrapped with banana leaves at some dinner/press conference. The problem is, nobody told him that the leaves are actually NOT edible--so he ate the whole thing, banana leaves and all. Poor thing. He was reportedly mad as hell.
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