Category: Native American Recipes
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Native Americans looked to the earth for their foods and ate things that may not be considered common today. For example, acorns were a major North American Indian Food. California's Native American Indians were mostly hunters and gatherers. Throughout California, there was a steady supply of deer, fish, rabbits, foul, vegetables and fruits in the form of native plants and seaweed. And they made good use of all of it. Still, acorns are believed to have been a main food source for many native California Indians. Acorns were everywhere from north to south, were easy to gather and stored quite well as long as storage containers and places were squirrel resistant. Some clans buried baskets of acorn nuts until they were needed. White acorns, it was also believed, were the most preferred because they were sweet and could be eaten without leaching, a processing method traditionally used to remove the acidic tannins of the acorns. In any case, read through the Indian recipes you find here to discover some unique hearty meals. In some cases, though, you may note that ingredients had to be exchanged to meet the times. Otherwise, many are as authentic as when originally conceived. Enjoy our Native American food recipes.
Ojibwa Baked Pumpkin
Cherokee Succotash
Seminole Fried Green Tomatoes
Osage Bread
Acorn Bread
Seminole Corn Stuffing
Onondaga Corn Sticks
Pemmican # 2
Pemmican
Indian Spice Cake
Indian Pudding
Choctaw Hunters Stew
Acorn Stew
Comanche Stew
Canadian Sioux Fish Chowder
Hopi Corn Stew & Blue Dumplings
Seminole Pumpkin Soup
Black Bean Soup
Seminole Seafood Corn Pudding
Seminole Roast Rabbit
Indian Salmon Cakes
Roasted Wild Turkey