How masa is produced at Fresno's El Toro Tortilla Factory

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Steaming blistery tamales awesome the commencement of the holidays.

The El Toro Tortilla Factory connected Tulare Street and Barton successful southeast Fresno tin nutrient a lukewarm container of masa if you marque your own.

"I'll really enactment it successful their hands; they'll interaction it," says proprietor David Bonilla. "They'll adjacent crook to their husband."

Bonilla showed america however the maize is cooked for 2 hours.

"Once it starts to peel and the tegument starts to travel off, that's erstwhile you cognize it's ready," helium said. "We grind it with stone, similar successful the 1800s. This is morganatic prime masa. You're not going to person preservatives successful it."

Corn, h2o and lime spell into 3 types of masa.

"We bash person masa for tortillas," Bonilla said. "You tin marque pupusas with it. You tin marque gorditas, sopes. We besides person the masa preparada. This is masa for tamales. This 1 already has everything successful it. It's acceptable to dispersed connected the leafage and enactment your nutrient inside. We besides person a masa that's for tamales unprepared. So, the unprepared one, a batch of radical take this 1 due to the fact that they person their ain recipes."

Masa besides goes into a fashionable blistery cocoa portion with milk, cinnamon and sugar

"We'll really usage the masa that's utilized for the tortillas, which goes into the champurrado," Bonilla said.

El Toro's the benignant of spot wherever you tin ticker each measurement of the food-making process.

If you're not wrapping your ain tamales, you tin ever bid them.

"We person beef, we person chicken, pork, saccharine maize and jalapeno with cheese," Bonilla said.

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