American Indian recipes..............?!
American Indian recipes..............?
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2 days ago
No fish pls
Answers: 2 days ago
No fish pls fry bread
Ingredients
7 cups unbleached flour
4tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups buttermilk
1 cup water
2 eggs
1 stick butter, melted
2 pkgs dry instant rise yeast
Directions
Mix 4 cups of flour and other dry ingredients in large bowl EXCEPT the yeast. On another bowl,mix buttermilk and water and warm slightly (should make one quart). Add to flour mixture and mix. Add eggs and melted butter. Mix well. Add 2 pkgs of dry yeast. Mix all ingredients very well. Mixture will seem loose, gradually add remaining flour until dough forms. Knead dough to a good consistancy and form into a ball. Add more flour if needed. Grease a large bowl set dough in it. Cover and let rise to top of bowl (about 30 min). Punch down dough and let rise to top of bowl again. Use skillet with oil or deep frier with oil and heat. When hot pull of sections off dough, shape, and fry in oil until lighly golden brown. Flip. Done. I eat it dipped in powered sugar, or topped with lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Enjoy
3 sisters soup
Ingredients
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tsp.minced garlic
3Tbs. olive oil
1 can dry kidney beans and liquid
1 can corn or hominy and liquid
1 can pumpkin or squash and liquid
Black Pepper
Directions
This soup was inspired by some disappointing "corn soup" that I ate at a PauWau in SC.
Saute the onion and garlic in oil and add the three cans of vegetables and their liquid. Pepper to taste and heat.
Four decent servings.
http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/recipe... Source(s):
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http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/index.... To my understanding Native Americans ate what was available and easy to grow, or forage, in their area.
My Grandmother was Cherokee but she cooked typical "American" food.
For some tribes, beans, corn and squash were grown together and called "the 3 sisters". For southwestern tribes ground cornmeal and squash composed a lot of their diet.
I have read extensively about Native American diet, and would have to say that deer or buffalo jerky was used, smoked salmon for Northwestern coastal people.
To make deer (venison) jerky authentically you would have to hang strips of deer meat over a campfire and let it smoke until dry. Same with salmon.
I would suggest that you go online to check for tribal information, such as for "cherokee" or whatever tribe you might be interested in, and then ask about recipes.
Personally, I don't think spices except for sea salt and possibly the plant coltsfoot, or other native plants, would have played much of a part in Native American food until the arrival of Europeans. Preserving food would have been the second biggest consideration for any tribe after satisfying immediate hunger.
By the way, my Grandma was a great gardener and grew enough food to feed a family of 7 throughout the year, along with the farm stock my grandfather raised, and whatever the boys could hunt, including froglegs! Try Mexican food.
Most Mexicans are North American Indians. Native american? Or Indian?
Technically I am an American Indian!