How to cook tamalus:

• Cook peanut in water for 40 minutes. Sauté atsuete to extract color.
• Remove seeds and brown garlic and onion. Add peanut, vinegar, one teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper.
• Cook until peanut sauce is thick enough to spread.
• Add the remaining seasonings to the water and mix flour to form a ball of dough.
• Divide equally into two portions.
• Put one portion on a banana leaf and roll out with a rolling pin.
• Form a rectangle 10" x 5 x 1/8. Steam 5 minutes. Remove carefully from hot steam with a turner.
• When cool, slip dough on another leaf. On the dough, arrange half of the pork and top with peanut sauce.
• Fold dough neatly and spread top with peanut sauce.
• Wrap with a piece of banana leaf and tie securely with a string.
• Repeat the same procedure with the other half of the dough. Steam for two hours.
• Before serving, divide each tamalus into 5 slices.