Hunter's Stew

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This earthy and sumptuous stew, adapted from "The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen" by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley, reflects the mode of eating that Native Americans thrived connected for generations earlier Europeans arrived. Traditionally made with people lean, exceptionally eco-friendly crippled meat, on with a savory premix of dried and caller mushrooms and onions, seasoned with sumac, juniper and oregano, and served implicit agleam orangish mashed squash, it makes for a beauteous and nourishing meal. You tin usage immoderate stew chopped of crippled nutrient you person entree to, but if you are relying connected the market store, your champion options volition astir apt beryllium farmed bison, venison oregon lamb.

Refrigerate for up to 4 days.

Juniper berries and sumac tin beryllium recovered astatine well-stocked supermarkets, spice shops and online.

Adapted by cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger from “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooely (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

Ingredients

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Servings: 4-6 (makes astir 6 cups)

  • 1 ounce dried mushrooms, specified arsenic chanterelles, trumpet, morels oregon immoderate benignant you choose
  • 1 cupful boiling water
  • 3 tablespoons sunflower oil, oregon different neutral oil
  • 2 1/2 pounds stew nutrient from bison, lamb oregon immoderate crippled nutrient specified arsenic venison, chopped into 2-inch cubes
  • 1 spoon crushed juniper berries (may substitute 3/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper)
  • 3/4 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped leeks, oregon diced yellowish onions oregon shallots
  • 8 ounces caller mushrooms, coarsely chopped
  • 1 tablespoonful minced caller oregano, positive further leaves for garnish
  • 2 teaspoons crushed sumac, positive much to taste
  • 1 cupful low-sodium rootlike broth
  • Mashed cooked wintertime squash, for serving (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (about 1 cupful stew), based connected 6

  • Calories

    325

  • Fat

    12 g

  • Saturated Fat

    3 g

  • Carbohydrates

    7 g

  • Sodium

    416 mg

  • Cholesterol

    161 mg

  • Protein

    46 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted by cookbook writer and registered dietitian nutritionist Ellie Krieger from “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” by Sean Sherman with Beth Dooely (University of Minnesota Press, 2017).

Tested by Hattie Ulan.

Published January 25, 2023

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Updated March 17, 2026

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