Native American Fried Squash Bread

Native American Fried Squash Bread
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Recipe Rating:
 (4)
Categories: Vegetables, Savory Breads, Quick & Easy, Vegetable Appetizers
Serves: depens on size (15-30)
Prep Time: 25 Min
Cook Time: 25 Min

Ingredients

1 1/2 c corn meal
3 summer squash (diced)
2 lg eggs
water
1/3 c buttermilk
OIL FOR FRYING
x4
Colleen Sowa
Well Seasoned
La Crosse, WI (pop. 51,320)
colleenlucky7
Member Since Apr 2010
Colleen's Notes:
I never made this recipe, my grandmother use to make it. She made them kind of like a biscuit one time and kind of like a pancake another time...

She told me that this was an old recipe that her parents learned from Native Americans.
 
 

Directions

1
Put diced squash in a large pot. Boil until cooked tender. Drain (saving 11/4 cups of water from the pot).

Put squash and water into pot.
2
Put remaining ingredients into the pot and mix together.
3
Put oil in a skillet and when hot, put batter into skillet and fry until golden brown.
4
This recipe comes out two ways (unless you make adjustments)
1. Depending on the moisture of the squash, it comes out like a dough that can be formed into patties.
2 Depending on the moisture of the squash, it comes out like more of a batter like making pancakes...

Try it both ways, and adjust the recipe to your liking.
Comments

1-12 of 22 comments on "Native American Fried Squash Bread"

Bakerella
Kimberleigh... Bakerella
Jan 11, 2011
Colleen, is it yellow squash that is used here?
kimijo
Kimi Gaines kimijo
Jan 11, 2011
THIS SOUNDS INTERESTING COLLEEN!!
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Susan Feliciano frenchtutor
Jan 11, 2011
Colleen, I saved this one because it's so different from anything I've seen before. Next time I go to the store, I'll look for some good summer squash. I would think yellow crookneck, or the little pattypan squashes would work fine.
colleenlucky7
Colleen Sowa colleenlucky7
Jan 12, 2011
You can use any squash! The yellow squash and zucchini are both good... I have also made it with pumkins, acorn and others... That is partly why the consistancy changes... the use of different types of squash... and you get such varried flavors... but yellow and zucchini were probably the original ones.... xo Colleen
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Susan Feliciano frenchtutor
Jan 22, 2011
Colleen, I fixed this for supper this evening. I used yellow crookneck squash. YUMM! It goes really well with the ham and beans. I've sent you a couple of pictures. Thanks for a great recipe.
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Colleen Sowa colleenlucky7
Jan 22, 2011
Thanks for trying this recipe out! And for posting the photos!!! xo
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Susan Feliciano frenchtutor
Jan 22, 2011
Colleen, do they look like yours? You can set one of the photos to be the image that comes up - pick "use as main image."
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Colleen Sowa colleenlucky7
Jan 22, 2011
This looks like the zuccini or yellow squash version...!!!! The pumpking, acorn and other orange squash ones look different.. also, sometimes they are made as a fry biscuit.
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