Anyone have any Native-American Indian Recipes ??!
Anyone have any Native-American Indian Recipes ??
Specifically looking for "Meat Pie"
Answers:
In the pueblos, this bread is baked in outdoor ovens called hornos. This recipe has been adapted for indoor home ovens.
Oven Bread
1 package dry yeast
1/2 tablespoon shortening
1/4 cup honey or sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup hot water
5 cups all-purpose flour
Dissolve yeast in 1/4 cup warm water. Mix well and set aside.Combine lard, honey and salt in large bowl. Add 1 cup hot water and stir well. When mixture cools to room temperature, mix well with yeast mixture. Add 4 cups of four, stirring well after each cup.Spread 1 cup of flour on cutting board and place dough upon it. Knead until dough is smooth and elastic about 15 minutes. Put dough in large bowl, cover with cloth and put in warm place until dough doubles in bulk.Turn dough onto floured surface again and knead well. Divide dough into two equal parts. Shape each into loaves or rounds.
Place the loaves on well-greased cookie sheet, cover with cloth and allow to double in warm place. Put into preheated 350
degree oven and bake until lightly browned about 1 hour. Use oven's middle rack and place a shallow pan of water on the bottom of the oven.
Pumpkin and Corn Dessert
1 small pumpkin
2 ears corn, cut from cob
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
Sugar or honey
Peel, seed and slice pumpkin. Cover with water and simmer until tender. Place corn kernels in pie tin in 350-degree oven, bake for 15 minutes. Add corn to pumpkin. Add flour, stirring constantly over low heat until mixture thickens. Add sugar or honey to taste. Serve hot.
I'm native American and my grandmother use to make meat pie all the times, I have forgotten all about that until you asked this question. Now I am going to have to find her recipe and make it again, thanks for the memory.
hope this is what your looking for
Native Amercan Meat Pie
1 lb. ground buffalo or beef
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. pepper
1 tsp. azafran
1 tsp. ground garlic
1 tbsp. celery salt
2 tbsp. basil
4 c. biscuit dough
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix first 7 ingredients. Roll dough. Cut in 2 inch square. Spoon meat mix on each. Fold in half. Seal edges. 1/2 inch apart on greased cookie sheet; bake 15 minutes. Serve immediately. May be made up to 6 hours in advance. But bake just before serving.
If using prepared biscuits, separate each biscuit into 2 biscuits.
Instead of biscuits, this can be cooked before and placed on party rye.
I don't have a meat pie recipe, but I do have one for "Indian Fry Bread."...To some Indian tribes, it is a secret. and they don't give it out. But I'm willing to share it with you...
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Navajo tacos....YUM!