Sweet tamale made w/ real fruit and cream cheese?...?

Question

Even though the sweet tamales come out only during the holiday season, my son and I went to the Indio(CA) International Tamale Festival last December and came across a vendor from Temecula(southwestern Riverside County) that sold this type of sweet tamale...We fell in LOVE w/ this tamale immediately, and wanted to find where in Temecula the restaurant was so that we could order a dozen tamales to take home to Monrovia(a 1 1/2 hour drive)...we looked all over the City of Temecula(and nearby City of Murrieta) for the restaurant, only to be told by the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce that the restaurant didn't exist;instead it was a home-based business!...we were disappointed...

But now the hard part:is there a Mexican restaurant anywhere in the L.A. area that serves a sweet tamale similar to what we ate in Indio(real fruit and cream cheese wrapped in a corn husk!)???...

Can anyone help us...

Thanks...

So far, the first two answers SUCK!!!...

C'mon, people, get w/ it!!!...I'm SERIOUS!...

Answer 1

I can't believe how dumb those first two people are!...

I remember going to Indio every December and eating a sweet tamale like the one you described at Temecula Tina's vendor booth...I also went down to Temecula in a frantic search for Temecula Tina's Restaurant(even in the Old Town district), w/ NO success(despite help from the TVCC)...

I doubt that you'll find ANY Mexican restaurant in L.A. County that specializes in those mouth-watering tamales...

Good luck, and please stop by Indio again this December!...

Answer 2

Hmm, I have not heard of a tamale with sweet fillings. I thought you were referring to a quesito, which I had several times in Puerto Rico and which is filled with cream cheese and jam or fruit filling. Guess I would need to know if the outer layer was the same as a regular meat tamale or not. Thanks for asking this question, as I have been to Temecula several times although it was a couple of years ago.

Answer 3

Sorry but wads a tamale man.i tot a tamale is a sweet hot girl with a fine body.but dat sounds oh so good.mnaybe u cud get a recipe from the net.

Answer 4

the sweet tamales are realy delicios, we can eat them in many countries, in Mexico and all Central America too, but we can eat another kind of them for example on Cristmas we eat meat tamales.

Answer 5

I don't know of any restaurants that serve them but I know you can make them at home.


They aren't that hard and probably easier than savory tamales.

google..

I have had them made with raisins, coconut and pineapple.. no cream cheese though