Traditional Recipes

Below you will find two traditional recipes, passed down over generations from Kiowa peoples.


Kiowan Frybread
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Ingredients:
-warm water
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-1 teaspoon of baking powder
-2 cups of flour
-1/4 cup of vegetable oil


Directions:
Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Then slowly add the warm water to the sifted dry ingredients until the dough feels like mud. Mix and knead the dough until smooth. Then cover the dough for ten minutes. Break up the dough into lemon size pieces, an roll into balls. Then flatten the balls. Heat the oil in a pan, and fry until golden brown. Best if served fresh with salt or syrup.


Spicy buffalo and spinach
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Ingredients:
-buffalo meat
-6 chilies
-19 finely chopped fresh sage leaves
-peanut butter
-spinach
-buffalo fat


Directions:
Marinate the buffalo meat in half of the chilies. Put the spinach in with the rest of the chilies, along with peanut butter, sage, and buffalo fat. Put buffalo in with the spinach, and cook until meat is well browned.