In reply to Leticia Renee Perez.

In Guatemala they make some tamales with potatoes instead of corn and they are wrapped in banana leaves.

I believe it’s the spices. You could ask Dora on her blog, it’s her recipe.

Ooh, found it! Actually from a link on this site, yay!
If you go to the page for Kathy’s book here

When you are there, you should see a pic of the cover of the (Yum, I want this book!!) book, and to the RIGHT of that it shows that it is available as a Kindle or Paperback book. Under where it says “Kindle”, click “read with our free App”, and that will show you all the places it works and how to do it. Hope that helps!!

Hi, I am a li’l sleep-deprived but I think I can help with at least one of your questions 🙂 I copied this from the top of the page, I know a lot of people who are allergic to corn, so I appreciated that they added this:

“She gives you other options to wrap your tamales in case you can’t get corn husks where you are, like Swiss chard or parchment paper”. So I guess in the book it will explain how to use one of those options.

And about not having a Kindle – do you have any kind of e-reader? Most of those and tablets (even smart phones I’m pretty sure, I’m poor so I have the cheapest Kindle Fire and a phone that just is a phone 🙂 Anyway, even if you have a home computer, there should be a place/app where you can read the book. I recommend going to Amazon dot com (I sort of live there, since I have the Kindle Fire, 🙂 I do love free books!) and they should have directions there for how to read Kindle books without a Kindle.

If you can’t find (and sorry I don’t have a link, I’ll go look in a bit and see what I can find) anything at Amazon, if you have Windows 10 there is a Kindle App, IIRC.

Hopefully one of those will work for you!! 🙂

My grandmother used mashed plantain or sweet potato, look up recipes for Pastaeles like this

Hi Marcia,

The book is also available on iTunes if you have a Mac or iPad. If you have a PC you can buy the kindle format and just download the kindle for PC app.

You can make tamales with rice flour. I would keep the same proportion of flour and fat, just substitute corn flour for rice flour. Add the liquid gradually in case you need more or less. The batter should have the consistency of a thick cake batter. Tamales can be wrapped in Swiss chard, banana leaves, foil or parchment paper. All would be good substitutes. I hope this helps.

I don’t have a Kindle, is there another format for people like me?

My husband is allergic to corn in all forms. Is there something else I can use instead of masa and husks? I know I’m asking a lot, but I know he’d LOVE to be able to eat them and I’d LOVE to be able to make it happen!

Thank you so much, Marcia