I need names of Navajo Food please?

Question

Im doing a project for language arts. Im almost finnished, but I need named of some foods. Its due Monday. P.S i already have fry bread. And pps could u please tell me why this navajo food is important enough for u to mention it? plz!!! This is worth 100pts. Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

The modern Navajo eats about the same kind of thing the rest of the inhabitants of the United States eat.

The traditional Navajos farmed beans, squash and corn and hunted deer, pararie dogs and other animals. Corn was the most important food. Mutton (meat from sheep) and fry bread was a favorite food. Traditional Navajos usually cook by memory, measuring their ingredients with hands or fingers. If there is no modern stove, most food is cooked over an open fire.

Traditional cooks still use wild plants and vegetables such as spinach, onions, turnips, berries, cactus and cedar brush. For instance, cedar brush is used to add color, a flavor to a popular Navajo delight called blue corn meal pudding.

Here are the major Navajo dishes:

* Frybread (also spelled fry bread)
It is a flat dough fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard. The dough is generally leavened by yeast or baking powder.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry_bread
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/frybread.html

* Dried Corn
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/drycorn.html

* Dried Corn Stew
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/cornstew.html

* Dried Corn Soup
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/cornsoup.html

* Hopi Corn Stew
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/hopicorn.html

* Cheese and Green Chili Soup
Recipe: http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/chilisup.html

* Garbanzo Soup
Recipe:http://waltonfeed.com/peoples/navajo/recipes/garbanzo.html

* Mutton stew
Recipe: http://www.nativetech.org/recipes/recipe.php?recipeid=145

Answer 2

Navajo Mutton Stew

Answer 3

Lived around Navajos for a short period. Besides beans of any sort, they supplemented their diet with cacti. Yucca is very popular. Also they made a type of flat bread, (like a tortilla) which they would pound into a pancake shape (flour, water and lard (shortening) and cook it in a hot griddle. Then they would put meat, Verge's of any sort, peppers, (jalapenos or chilies), and a light red sauce (I called it enchilada sauce.) Made with a tomato base. It was served like a small pizza and called Navajo taco. Also they liked refried beans, which are light brown beans, cooked then smashed, and then refried again in a cast iron skillet with a little oil. Also they do a very nice rice, (the worlds most stable food), In a skillet, with 2 TB. fat stir up 1 cup of rice, lightly browned, add 2 cups water, 1/2 cup chilies, 1 cup diced tomatoes, 1/2 c. corn, 1 cup beans,(kidney or red) bring to a slow boil, simmer slowly stirring occasionally for about 20 minutes.Add a little water if needed. I hope this helped a little.

Answer 4

Well, there's al'kahn which is the corn cake made for the kinaalda puberty ceremony. There's corn stew, mutton stew, and dumpling stew. There's naniskaad which is a tortilla, kneel down bread, and blue corn bread. Sheep head is a delicacy as well as a'chee which is sheep fat wrapped around with intestine. This all can be washed down with Navajo tea - a tea made from a local plant (not to be confused with Mormon tea).

Answer 5

blue corn meal mush, kinda like malto meal(needless to say its blue) mutton stew, lots of mutton and nunishkada its another kind of bread, however you spell it, i can't believe i don't remember anything else! well our mom is navajo and we go out and visit her a couple of times a year the rest of the family is choctaw how funny. hope it helped. i have no idea what that other person(jaqui) it talking about. a navajo taco is re-fried beans lettuce tomato taco meat, on navajo fried bread, you know taco stuff on fried bread. another one is uh-cheet, that's how it sounds but i don't know how its spelled. it's lamb meat and looks weird, the zuni call it the navajo "shock absorber", it looks like one. well that's all i got. we like to eat at the chinese place alot!

Answer 6

Corn = maize.