#native recipe

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Native American Recipe: Wild Rice With Sweet Potato - Unpeeled Journal

Indigenous food is under-appreciated. This Native American recipe for wild rice, mushroom and corn sauté is healthy, earthy, and flavorful.

Sounds yummy

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Corn Griddle Cakes

From the Spirit of the Harvest cookbook. ✨

Corn Griddle Cakes

Ingredients:

-2 cups cornmeal

-1/4 cup flour

-1 1/4 ounce package active dry yeast

-2 teaspoons sugar (optional)

-1/2-1 teaspoon salt

-1 pint milk

-maple syrup to taste

Directions:

In mixing bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, yeast, sugar, and salt.

Stir in milk until mixture is smooth.

Sit for 15 minutes.

Drop mixture in large spoonfuls onto hot, greased griddle.

When bubbles form at top, turn over until golden brown on each side.

[khangi]

I made fry bread and wajopi!! ❤️

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Buffalo Stew

A recipe from Uncle Jay-jay ✨

Buffalo Stew

Tankamealo

“Good with rabbit or deer, too. Don’t use bear because it’s too greasy”

Ingredients

2 stalks celery, cut mouth size

1 can stewed tomatoes

2 lbs buffalo meat, cut small

4 quarts water

2 lbs red potatoes

1 cup barley

Instructions

-Brown the buffalo on high heat until seared about 3 minutes.

-Add 4 quarts of water, potatoes and boil until veggies are tender.

-Add stewed tomatoes and celery and barley cook an additional 5 minutes.

-Remove from fire and place into baking dish.

-Bake at 425°F for 30 minutes.

-Remove from oven and enjoy.

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Caddo Fish Relish

A recipe from Uncle Jay. ✨ This WILL create a lot of relish, so be prepared to can the remainder, or give it away!

Caddo Fish Relish

Ingredients

1 1/2 gallons green tomatoes (chop coarsely)

3/4 cup salt

1 gallon onions

1 quart bell pepper

1 pint hot pepper “(may be too much for you)”

Some red pepper of both kinds for color

3 quarts vinegar

8 cups sugar

2 tbsp black pepper

Ingredients

-Put green tomatoes into the churn. Put salt over these and let stand until other ingredients are prepared.

-Drain off salt water but don't rinse.

-Combine all ingredients in cooker or large pot.

-Peel and chop the onions, bell pepper, hot pepper, and red pepper.

-Mix with the vinegar, sugar and black pepper.

-Stir with wooden spoon and cook only until vegetables change color. Do not over cook or let get soft.

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Pan Cornbread

A recipe from Uncle Jay-jay ✨

Pan Cornbread (10 inch)

Ingredients

1 cup stone-ground cornmeal

3/4 cup all purpose wheat flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 Tbs sugar

1 tsp salt

2 Tbs butter, melted

1 egg

1 egg white

1 cup buttermilk

1 Tbs Canola oil

Instructions

-Preheat the oven to 425

-In the medium cast iron skillet, add the Canola and place in the oven to heat

-Sift together the wheat flour, soda, baking powder, sugar and salt until thoroughly mixed.

-Add the cornmeal and mix thoroughly.

-In a separate bowl beat the egg and egg white

-Add the buttermilk and the melted butter to the beaten eggs and stir until fully mixed.

-Pour the egg and buttermilk mixture into the dry ingredients and stir gently with a large spoon, just enough to put together the liquid.

-Remove the cast iron skillet from the oven and pour the batter into it. Place in oven and bake for about 20 minutes until golden.

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Fruit Pemmican

A recipe from Uncle Jay-jay ✨

Fruit Pemmican

Ingredients

3⁄4 cup dried apricot

3⁄4 cup pine nuts

3⁄4cup sunflower seeds

1⁄2 cup dried apple

2 eggs, beaten

1 1⁄2 cups fresh strawberries or 1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries

1⁄3cup brown sugar

1/3 cup blueberries

1⁄2 cup flour

Instructions

-Preheat oven to 375.

-Put apricots, apples, pinenuts, and sunflower seeds in a food processor.

Process until apricots and apples are in fine pieces and nuts are fine. Transfer mixture to a bowl and add remaining ingredients.

-Mix well and spoon into a buttered 9 X 13 baking dish. Bake 30 minutes.

-Cut into bars.

[khangi]

Native Recipes: Oven Jerky

Labeled as “Jayjay’s Jerky”, from @spellsinsugar ‘s uncle. ✨

“Eat with grape jelly to make Little Jay make a weird face!”

Notations preserved for full impact.

Oven Jerky

Ingredients:

-2 lbs meat (Beef, buffalo, etc) (“Just make sure it’s good meat, without a lot of fat pockets.”)

-3/4 cup of Worcestershire

-2/3 cup soy sauce (“my dad used salt water but soy sauce makes it taste better”)

-1 tsp liquid smoke

-1 tbsp brown sugar

-Onion powder

-Cayenne

-Garlic powder

-Paprika

-Extra pepper (“if you’re strong like me”)

Directions:

-Freeze meat for a few hours, then cut really thin, about 1/8th inch

-Mix up marinade in a bowl and then put in a bag

-Add meat to the bag

-Let sit overnight

-Take meat out of the bag and dry off with a paper towel

-Lay on a baking sheet, make sure nothing touches

-Bake in the oven at 175 for three hours

-Rotate the sheets every half hour or so to make sure it cooks evenly

-Once fully dried out, pull out of oven and let cool

-Store in a tight jar for up to three or four weeks