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Equally popular are tamales, although not exactly similar to its Mexican counterpart.

Made with corn flour, shortening and pieces of pork meat, tamales are wrapped in corn leaves and tied, boiled in salted water and served in a number of different ways.

Tamales en cazuela is almost the same recipe, although it does not require the lengthy process of packing the tamales in the corn leaves before cooking, but rather is directly cooked in the pot.

Tamales as well as black bean soup, are among the few indigenous foods that have remained part of the modern Cuban cuisine.