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INDIAN TACOS -- Sure-seller at Powwows

Indian tacos for powwows, school feasts

This is sauce recipes. Taco sauce is spread over a large flat frybread topped with shredded

lettuce and cheese. 3 versions are given, one made with hamburger, one with chicken or

turkey, one vegan (vegetarian).

Figure ingredients based on how many you will serve or think you will sell. As well as Indian

tacos, you can sell fry breads by themselves, with a berry pudding-sauce (wojapi) over it,

and if you sell a soup or stew, a small one with each bowl. This amount of taco sauce is

about right for 8-10 flat fry breads, so multiply everything accordingly.

Burger taco sauce--enough for 8-10 frybreads

Hamburger version:

Sauce:

1 lb hamburger

1 large onion minced

2 small cans tomato paste

1 big can tomatoes

1 tsp basil

1/2 tsp oregano

salt, pepper, chile powder to taste

Topping:

: 1 head iceberg lettuce shredded

1/2 lb cheese grated coarse

On the counter:

bowl of fine-chopped onion

bowl of mild green chiles chopped up fine

Fry onion and hamburger broken up loose. Sprinkle some salt and chile powder over it. Add

tomato paste and 4 cans of water and the canned tomatoes and their juice -- break up

tomatoes and stir it around. Taste for seasoning. Simmer till meat and onions are done and

sauce is thick, 30 - 40 minutes. Assembling: put the flat fry bread on a paper plate and

spread sauce over it (don't be stingy). Put a handful of cheese on it and top with a handful of

shredded lettuce. People add their own choices of chopped raw onion, chiles (and maybe

some other favorites) from the bowls. In some areas, the culture favors the addition of hot

chiles to this sauce (not in ours).

Chicken (or other bird) version: make it when you want broth and some meat for a wild rice

soup-stew too. Roast or stew chickens, turkeys or ducks. Remove meat from bones. Boil

bones, wings, backs with onions, carrots to make broth for wild rice soup/stew. Dice meat

from fowl and use in place of hamburger to make taco sauce.

Vegan (vegetarian) taco sauce--enough for 8 -10 tacos

1 large onion chopped

Native Foods -- Recipes--Indian Tacos

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