How to make vegan Sagamite

Hey there! I wanna find out how I make my Native American dishes more vegan and salt free for daily meals. I'm also looking to find out how to cook it without oil to become free from more fat and things of that nature. You all heard of Sagamite? Sagamite is a French word  for one of Native American dishes that's being dinned by the Miami, Illinois and Quapaw nations. Please drop in some feedback and stuff on page for chat. Happy Winter!

I had to look up Sagamite on google. An interesting dish to make vegan, here is what I would do. Use a crockpot or other slow cooker to stew the vegetables. Or roasting vegetables in the oven would also be good to do. As for meat analogue I would use butler soy curls flavored to taste like meat.  If  you want to avoid soy try seitan (vital wheat gluten) or five grain tempeh.  

I don't have experience with that dish but I'm almost certain mushrooms would be a great meat substitute here. There are a lot of different edible mushrooms I can see working well with something like that. Portobello would be awesome to test out if no other good ones are readily available and affordable, or even if others are available. One difference with mushrooms that you may already know is that to lock in the right level of moisture for them, it's good to start them in a hot pan without any fat, then add broth/other ingredients once the mushrooms are cooked as much as they can without burning. Should be fine without oil!

I wanna find out if I can cook some without wood chips. Which ways I can cook without using woodchips to make Sagamite?

Blake Lenoir wrote: I wanna find out if I can cook some without wood chips. Which ways I can cook without using woodchips to make Sagamite?

Are you using wood chips as fuel? If so check out the rocket stoves forum https://permies.com/f/125/rocket-stoves. I have cooked with a rocket stove and I like it a lot.

Can you explain what you mean when you say sagamite, Blake?

When I look it up online, it seems like at its most basic it's a soup or gruel made from hominy, whole or ground. Then there are probably endless variations on it, depending on what else you have available or what your family traditionally made.

If I'm correct about what it is, it seems like it would be easy to make vegan - just don't put in any animal products. Is there a particular variation or recipe you're thinking about?

Sagamite is a Native American stew made from corn, wild rice, brown sugar, meat and stuff. It has been eaten by the Peoria, Quapaw, and few other tribes. The Peoria served the French explorers the stew in 1673 when they went up the Mississippi.