Coffee Filter Hot Tamales

Tamale Balls

1 lb Pork sausage
8 oz Tomato sauce
1/2 Onion; minced
4 Cloves garlic; minced 1 3/4 c Yellow cornmeal
1/2 c All-purpose flour
2 tb Chill powder
Salt and pepper


For Sauce

2 20-ounce cans tomatoes; mashed
2 tb Chill powder
1 pn Sugar
Salt and pepper


Combine first five ingredients. Mix dry ingredients and add. Shape into about 40 small balls. In large Dutch Oven combine sauce ingredients. Drop balls into sauce and simmer, tightly covered, for two hours.