Native American Recipes as promised!!?!
Buffalo stew
2 lbs buffalo
1/4 cup oil
1 large chopped onion
2 cloves of minced garlic
2 cups of corn
8 cups water
1 tsp.salt; 1 tsp.ground mint; 1/2 tsp.pepper
4 carrots, sliced
3 potatoes, cubbed
1 green pepper(optional)
Nokake Bread
2 Cups cornmeal
2 Cups water
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Teaspoons salt
1 Tablespoon fresh dill, chopped
Preheat oven to 375o F.
Bring water to boil in a saucepan.
Add cornmeal, butter, salt, and chopped dill.
Place mixture in buttered 8 inch by 8 inch cake pan; bake for 25 minutes or until done.
Cut into squares and serve.
Coopee' (Berry soup)
1 cup of dried Sarvis, June, Service Berries
4 cups of water
1/2 cup flour, approx.
Sugar
Directions
1. Boil berries in the water until soft.
2. Slowly stir in flour until it begins to thicken.
3. Sugar-sweeten to taste.
(We modernize it some by adding a handful of blueberries for sweetness and color.)
Note: Serve warm with your favorite bread (ours is fry bread).
Berries can be used fresh too. The nuttier and sweeter the berries the better the flavor.
In my grandmother's day bits of cooked/dried meat were added to the soup.
Answers: I promised to share some Native American Recipes and I am a Woman of my word. These are traditional plains (blackfoot) in origin, my tribe.
Buffalo stew
2 lbs buffalo
1/4 cup oil
1 large chopped onion
2 cloves of minced garlic
2 cups of corn
8 cups water
1 tsp.salt; 1 tsp.ground mint; 1/2 tsp.pepper
4 carrots, sliced
3 potatoes, cubbed
1 green pepper(optional)
Nokake Bread
2 Cups cornmeal
2 Cups water
2 Tablespoons butter
2 Teaspoons salt
1 Tablespoon fresh dill, chopped
Preheat oven to 375o F.
Bring water to boil in a saucepan.
Add cornmeal, butter, salt, and chopped dill.
Place mixture in buttered 8 inch by 8 inch cake pan; bake for 25 minutes or until done.
Cut into squares and serve.
Coopee' (Berry soup)
1 cup of dried Sarvis, June, Service Berries
4 cups of water
1/2 cup flour, approx.
Sugar
Directions
1. Boil berries in the water until soft.
2. Slowly stir in flour until it begins to thicken.
3. Sugar-sweeten to taste.
(We modernize it some by adding a handful of blueberries for sweetness and color.)
Note: Serve warm with your favorite bread (ours is fry bread).
Berries can be used fresh too. The nuttier and sweeter the berries the better the flavor.
In my grandmother's day bits of cooked/dried meat were added to the soup.
have you ever been to recipezaar.com? you can post your wonderful recipes and see what other people are cooking, and you can rate them after you try 'em, and even tell them what they are doing wrong (or right!). i have found some nice authentic native recipes on there! you will love it.
Thank you so much!!! That buffalo stew sounds amazing!
my half-cousin's mom made buffalo stew for me. She's blackfoot, but I'm Cherokee....among other nations.
I like Fry Bread, but Pumpkin Fry Bread is crazy delicious! Could I use your basic recipe and add pumpkin (canned?) and how much? I guess you would have to cook fresh pumpkin and then either puree or mash it before adding it to the dough. Would 1 c of pumpkin mash or puree work? Do you add anything to the pumpkin other than s&p? I am Indian, so we love our spices! Maybe cinnamon or nutmeg?
THANKS for the great recipes!
If they are authentic, why aren't they called 'American Indian recipes', then? I've only heard of Indian Reservations, not Native Reservations. 'Native American' is another white man incarnation, attempting to be politically correct. How 'bout asking the Indians what we should call them? All the ones I've known -- hundreds -- prefer Indian over Anything American. I'm part Navajo and have spent a lot of time with Indians actually asking them this stuff.
Also recommend people look up a good recipe for Wojapi (wo-zha-pee, word is 'Sioux', is a pudding of sorts from Plains tribes), make it with whatever berries you like...very good eaten with fry bread dipped in it.
that look good to me