Tamale Pie

Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped cooked meat
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1 small green pepper or pimiento
• 2 cups tomato sauce
• Salt, paprika, Tabasco sauce
• 1/2 cup corn meal
• 1 1/2 cups boiling water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped olives

Instructions

1. Put meat, onion, and pepper through food chopper twice. Mix with half the tomato sauce, season highly with salt, paprika, and Tabasco sauce. Sprinkle corn meal in boiling salted water, stir until thickened, and cook in double boiler twenty minutes. Line greased baking dish with the corn meal mush, fill with meat mixture and sprinkle with cheese. Add chopped olives and remainder of sauce. Cover with mush. Heat in moderately hot oven and serve in the oven for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.