Three Sisters Stew. Here's a great main dish option for Thanksgiving dinner. It's somewhat like chili, though more about the squash than beans. Corn, beans, and squash are full of healthy fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals - and when combined together become this delicious Three Sisters Stew.

All stages of raw stew can be contained in a Hand Cart. The three sisters—corn, squash and beans—merge into a delicious stew. The stew should be thick, but you may need to thin it slightly with vegetable stock or water. You can have Three Sisters Stew using 28 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Three Sisters Stew

It's of Hot soak.
Prepare 8 cups of water.
It's of Stew.
You need 2-1/2 cup of dried pinto beans.
Prepare 4 cups of winter squash.
Prepare 2 ears of corn.
Prepare 1 of large onion.
It's 2 of medium carrots.
You need 2/3 pound of ground sirloin/buffalo/ venison either one.
You need 1/4 pound of smoked bacon.
You need 48 ounces of beef broth.
You need To taste of salt.
Prepare 1 teaspoons of ground sage.
You need 1 teaspoons of whole leaf dried oregano.
It's 1 teaspoons of ground cayenne pepper.
It's 1 teaspoons of finely ground black pepper.
You need of Fall apart/ fry Dumplings.
It's 1 cup of yellow cornmeal.
You need 1 tablespoon of molasses.
You need 1 tablespoon of sugar.
It's 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper.
You need 1/2 teaspoon of ground paprika.
It's 1 teaspoon of ground sage.
You need 2 of large eggs.
It's 1 teaspoon of double acting baking powder.
It's 1/4 cup of hot water.
It's 1 cup of self rising cornbread mix.

The Three Sisters Stew is a traditional and contemporary Native American dish. The dish includes the three sister foods are the maize, beans, and squash, which are prevalent in Native American diets. The sisters are corn, squash, and beans. This is a hearty vegetable stew that'll warm you body and This comes from a great book.

Three Sisters Stew instructions

Wash and look the beans over remove any debris, bad beans, or stones. Add to a pot add 8 cups water. Bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Cover and turn off heat and let soak for 1 hour. Drain after an hour and rinse the beans. Add to a pot..
While you wait peel and remove seeds from the winter squash. Save the seeds to plant or toast..
Now that it is peeled slice and cube the squash..
Remove the corn from the cob..
Dice the bacon. Add the squash, beans, and corn to the broth..
Add the spices, the wash, peel, and dice the carrots. Dice the bacon and add them to the stew. Rest of the ingredients are added now for the stew. Let simmer for 45 minutes..
Everything is done..
Now for the fall apart dumplings. Add all the ingredients except the hot water and cornbread mix. I had a 1/2 cup of hot water, but only used 1/4 cup. The more water I had it was easier to hold heat. Ease the water in till you use a 1/4 cup..
Let rest 15 minutes so the baking powder and cornmeal can work keep covered. Add in the cornbread mix..
It will tighten up just a bit. Spoon in the fall apart dumplings till you have about this much in the picture left. That's for frying. Add 2 cups of water to the stew to help it not burn or get too thick..
Heat a skillet add the remaining mixture to the hot skillet and fry. When the bubble craters appear it's time to turn. Turn it, cover it for 3 minutes. Then just turn off the heat. Let rest in skillet covered till ready to eat. This will let it rise a bit and get done..
Let the stew rest covered and off the heat. I added the fried dumpling to the bowl and dipped the stew on top. I hope you enjoy!.

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