Bannock and "Indian Tacos"

The other day I had a serious craving for bannock and then that craving grew into one for a bannock taco, or Indian Taco as they are commonly referred to.  So I did some research and found so many different recipes online from different countries and tribes of native peoples.  To decide which recipe to use I basically picked the one I found that I felt connected to - an Ojibwa recipe.  I myself am not Ojibwa but my closest dearest friend is half Ojibwa, and I figure he'll probably have a piece the next time he's over so why not.

The recipe I decided to make can be found here:  Ojibwa Bannock Recipe

The first thing I did was get out all my ingredients, and take a quick snapshot.

 

After mixing all the required ingredients, you are instructed to make a "well" in the middle to put in your liquids.  

Note: an egg is not called for in the recipe I am following here.  However during all my research I found quite a few recipes that did call for one.  They claimed it made the bannock richer and fluffier.  Which only sounded more delightfully indulgent and so, the egg. 

Then began the slow adding of liquids and mixing with a fork until you have a slightly sticky dough you can handle.  As seen in my next photo...

At this point I pulled out the dough and placed it on my floured sideboard.  With floured hands I kneaded the sticky dough, adding flour as I went to make the dough more uniform and manageable.  Just using my hands I pulled off handful sized portions and flattened them to about 1/2 an inch thick.  My next photo is of these portion sized dough discs waiting to be fried.  While kneading the dough; in a large frying pan on high, I am heating up my vegetable oil.  You can also use lard or shortening but as frying is fattening enough, I went with the veggie oil. I just poured enough into the pan to cover at least half of the dough so I have no measurement for you here.

So once the oil was bubbling hot, I lowered in my first piece.  Once browned on one side, I flipped it over and allowed it to brown completely.  I removed it from the hot oil and placed it on several paper towels to allow it to soak up any extra oils.  This continued with all the other pieces until all were cooked.

 

And (drum roll please) the finished product!

 

  

Okay so this is my Taco...err....burger. ^_^  So the taco part is another recipe which you can find below.  

Cooking Cache: Indian Taco Recipe


I'd write about it too but this "taco" smells way to good to wait to eat!  The recipe I used for the Bannock was simple, straightforward and easy to recreate.  I highly suggest trying this out.  You can also make this when camping and bake it on a stick over an open flame. Yum!

This recipe gets 5 snowballs out of 5!

Happy Bannock Making!

Love,

Sno Bunee ....Kristin.

Welcome

Welcome to Eat My Thoughts!

Just a quick hello to all my new readers, as I am just about to go to the grocery store to pick up some essentials for my first blogged recipe I plan to do this afternoon.  

Stay tuned for many recipes both my own and those of others that I will review.  I hope to show you some things that you will want to try and make for yourself, or not as the case may be.

Take care and happy cooking!

Sno Bunee...Kristin