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Pine Nut Encrusted Catfish
Pine Nut Encrusted Catfish
Pine nut catfish is a popular recipe of indigenous tribes of New Mexico and Arizona. The pine nuts get toasted and ground with cornmeal, flour, and spices. Then catfish is dredged in the mix and fried in oil. If pine nuts are too expensive, walnuts or pecans are a suitable substitute.
Equipment
- Spice grinder
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup pine nuts
- 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 cup corn meal
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp salt
- vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Dry toast the pine nuts in a small skillet over medium heat for 2 minutes until golden brown. Let cool.
- Grind the pine nuts in a spice grinder. Mix the ground pine nuts with the flour, cornmeal, cayenne, cumin, and salt.
- Dredge each of the catfish fillets in the pine nut/flour mix.
- Heat up a 1/2” of vegetable oil in a sauté pan over medium high heat. Place the catfish into the oil.
- Fry for 4-5 minutes a side until crispy.
- Place the catfish on a rack to drain any excess oil.
Green Chili and Hominy Stew
Green Chili and Hominy Stew
Corn, beans, and chilies are important staples of Indigenous tribes of the southwest. This stew contains a base of onions, garlic, and celery, with roasted chilies, hominy, and pinto beans simmered for an hour. It’s simply seasoned with cumin, coriander, and sea salt. Then at the last minute of cooking, spinach and cilantro are stirred in. This stew is very filling and full of flavor considering that it’s vegan and contains no colonialist ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 medium onion diced
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 4 cups hominy
- 2 cups pinto beans
- 2 poblano peppers
- 2 fresno chilies
- 1 small green bell pepper
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp ground coriander
- 4 cups water
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 bunch spinach washed and chopped
- 1/2 cup cilantro chopped
Instructions
- Place the peppers on a wire rack. Broil in the oven for 4-5 minutes a side until the skins have been charred. Peel the skins. Seed. Dice all of the peppers. Set aside.
- Heat up the oil in a large pot over medium high heat. Sauté the onions, garlic, and celery for 10 minutes.
- Add in the hominy, beans, diced peppers, cumin seeds, and ground coriander.
- Pour in the water. Season with salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. Cover. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for an hour.
- Stir in the spinach and cilantro. Cook for a minute, then turn off the heat.
Bison Fry Bread Tacos
HISTORY AND CONTROVERSY OVER FRY BREAD The fry bread links generation to generation, connecting the painful narrative of Native American history. Fry bread can be traced back to the 1860s, created by the Navajo. The U.S. government forced Natives in Arizona to relocate to New …
Cherokee Pepper Pot
Cherokee Pepper Pot
Pepper pot comes in many forms. Originally made by southern Indigenous tribes such as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, etc, dishes like pepper pot became a huge influence on soul food; introducing ingredients like corn, okra, peppers, and tomatoes. The traditional recipe uses beef tripe, which I’m honestly not very fond of. Beef, venison, or bison short ribs are all acceptable meats to use.
Ingredients
- 2 lbs beef short ribs or venison; bison
- 8 cups water
- 1 large onion
- 2 tomatoes diced
- 1 large red bell pepper diced
- 1 cup frozen okra
- 1 medium potato peeled and diced
- 1 medium carrot peeled and diced
- 1 stalk celery diced
- 1/2 cup corn
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Cut the short ribs between the bones.
- Add the short ribs to a large pot of water with the onions. Bring to a boil. Cover. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 3 hours.
- Scoop out the beef from the pot.
- Remove the bone from the meat. Dice the short ribs into small pieces.
- Return the beef to the pot along with the rest of the ingredients. Simmer for another 90 minutes.
