This recipe was featured in the following Buzzfeed video about Native American Foods and many of the taste testers felt like it reminded them of other soups they had tasted before . As explained in the video, the name of the soup stems from the agricultural practices of certain tribes […]
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Wild Rice Salad
Wild Rice is a traditional food in various Indigenous tribes. Wild Rice is “extremely nutritious, with twice the amount of protein as brown rice“. This would explain why in Ojibwe the word for wild rice is manoomin meaning “good berry” or “good seed“. Wild Rice Salad is one of the foods featured in the following […]
Indian Fry Bread (Bannock) and Navajo Taco (Indian Taco)
The Indian Taco a.k.a. Navajo Taco, may be something that you have seen at carnivals, fairs, rodeos or other such places that are famous for innovations in deep-fried foods. An Indian Taco is a disk of Indian fry bread or bannock, smothered in ground meat, baked beans and other typical taco toppings such as lettuce, […]
Indigenous Cuisine Collection
If you opened your Skip the Dishes app you would find a plethora of international cuisines to choose from. You could find anything from Japanese, Cantonese, American, Ethiopian, Ukrainian, Italian etc. However, you would find it very difficult to find an option for Indigenous Cuisine. It may seem surprising that Indigenous Cuisine is underrepresented, but […]