Sioux Stew

tags: , , , ,

For those of you who might be worried that I am not eating properly, I just thought I'd show you an example of the home-made cuisine I get to eat every day;

Sioux Stew (made with ground bison meat),
without any garnish (I added dried blueberries and shredded cheddar cheese
after I snapped this picture).

Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].

The recipe is below the fold;

Sioux Stew
courtesy of Elizabeth Dodd.

1.5-2lbs ground bison meat
2c diced onions
garlic, minced
3 cans diced tomatoes
1 can chicken broth
3 Bell peppers (red, yellow, orange, or green or all of these colors), diced
2 4-ounce cans diced green chili peppers, drained
2 cooking apples (Granny Smith is what we used), cored and diced
3 T chili powder
3 T unsweetened cocoa powder
1 T curry powder
1 t ground cinnamon
2-3 c cooked red beans

Garnish with slivered almonds, raisins, dried cherries, dried cranberries, or cheddar cheese.

Preparation Instructions:

Brown bison meat with onions and garlic ina large kettle (may need to add olive oil). Stir in tomatoes, chicken broth, peppers, apples and seasonings. Bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for one hour. Add beans and almonds and heat thoroughly. Serve with suggested garnishes.

Diced Bell peppers for Sioux Stew (yummy!)

Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [larger view].

More like this

I forgot to take a picture of this dish - so Physioprof, shut up :-) I don't even pretend that this is an authentic mexican mole. It's something that I whipped together because I felt like a mole, and I worked from very vague memories of a mole recipe I read years ago, and ad-libbed this. So it's…
Please allow me to assure you that with this entry, I will not be veering into regular essays on the trappings of banal domesticity. However, I think this is a damn fine minestrone. I typically make it during the cooler months of the year, so as a nod to the recent autumnal weather here in the…
Today is the first week of Fall quarter at UC Davis and the Student Farm has harvested some glorious vegetables. The tomatoes in the CSA (community supported agriculture) basket today came mostly from the farm's Seeds of Change variety trial. The green striped, red striped, orange, dark striped,…
I do all of the cooking in my house; my wife amazing at baking, but she's just totally lost when it comes to cooking. But given my commute, it's hard to start making a nice dinner when I get home, and have it done in time to be able to eat, and have some time with my kids before they go to bed. So…

Pre-Columbian Americans would not have had access to cheddar cheese, apples, cinnamon, curry powder, and several other of those ingredients. Also, some Indians (native Americans?) consider the term "Sioux" to be racially derogatory. Otherwise, enjoy your meal.

By Tegumai Bopsul… (not verified) on 28 Mar 2008 #permalink

There is little question that there is a lot of discussion about the use of the word Sioux but, I do not think it would be the case here.:) It is very offensive when the University of North Dakota calls their athletic teams the Sioux and have logos on the floor, of their multimillion dollar hockey pavilion, that people walk on.

By PaWalleye (not verified) on 28 Mar 2008 #permalink

Blueberries?

As an addition to a meat stew!!? I'll have to try that. Normally it's Vanilla ice-cream and blue berries.

Just out of interest, is there such a thing as bison cheese? (buffalo cheese is Mozzarella) Cheddar cheese should, of course, come from cows living in the Chedder gorge but seems nowadays a generic term for a type of cheese.

By Chris' Wills (not verified) on 28 Mar 2008 #permalink

Wot, no chili peppers?

By Bill the Cat (not verified) on 28 Mar 2008 #permalink

Wot, no chili peppers?

The recipe contains "chili powder," which is a powdered mix of chili pepper and cumin.

By Tegumai Bopsul… (not verified) on 29 Mar 2008 #permalink

Cool -- I've been seeing Bison meat in my supermarket, now I know what to do with it.

Tegumai: No apples? Hmm, those have certainly settled in since. In any case, they'd probably have had a bunch of ingredients that would be uncommon nowadays. (They might not have had chilies, for North American Indians.)

I've been collecting "wild garlic" from my local hiking trail, but in fact, the stuff has been popping up all over the place here, including ornamental flowerbeds and lawns.

By David Harmon (not verified) on 30 Mar 2008 #permalink

Tegumai: No apples? Hmm, those have certainly settled in since.

They're native to Kazakhstan. North American dispersion is generally credited to Johnny Appleseed.

By Tegumai Bopsul… (not verified) on 30 Mar 2008 #permalink