Select Amish Country Dinner Recipes
For more than 200 years Amish cooking has been part of traditional rural cooking and recipes. Odds are, at least one of your grandmother’s favorite home style dishes were based on a traditional Amish recipe.
— Amish Oven Roasted Chicken —
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup flour
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
3 teaspoons salt
1 cut up broiler chicken or young roasting chicken
1/4 lb butter
DIRECTIONS:
Mix the dry ingredients well in a plastic bag, then coat the cut up chicken parts with the mixture.
In a cake pan, melt the butter.
Place the chicken parts in the pan, but do not crowd them.
Bake the chicken at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until done.
— Amish Sweet & Sour Ham —
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup thinly sliced carrots
1/2 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 cup fresh or frozen pea pods, thawed
1 beaten egg
1 cup bran flakes cereal
1/3 cup skim milk
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 pound ground veal or lean ground beef
1/2 pound ground fully cooked ham
16 oz can of pineapple chunks
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons honey
DIRECTIONS:
In a large mixing bowl combine egg, bran flakes, milk, and ginger. Let stand 5 minutes. Add meat and mix well. Shape into 24 meatballs.
Arrange meatballs in a baking dish. Bake, uncovered, in a 350 oven for 30 minutes. Spoon off fat. Meanwhile, for sauce, drain pineapple, reserving juice. Set both aside. In a large saucepan cook carrots in chicken broth, covered, for 5 minutes or just till tender. Do not drain.
Combine vinegar, cornstarch, honey, and soy sauce. Stir into carrot mixture. Stir in reserved pineapple juice. Cook and stir till thickened and bubbly. Stir in pea pods and cook 2 minutes more. Stir in pineapple; heat through. Gently stir in meatballs to coat with sauce.
— Amish Hamburger Casserole —
INGREDIENTS:
12 ounces broad egg noodles
3 lbs hamburger
1 medium onion, diced
1/2 cup brown sugar (more or less to taste)
1 (26 ounce) can tomato soup (family size)
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cheddar cheese soup
1 (10 3/4 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
3/4 cup milk
6 american cheese slices
DIRECTIONS:
1. Brown ground beef with onions; drain.
2. While hamburger is cooking, prepare noodles according to package; drain.
3. Mix tomato soup and brown sugar into hamburger.
4. Mix cream of chicken and cheddar cheese soups, and milk into noodles.
5. Put noodle mixture into a 9×13-inch pan or casserole dish, top with cheese, then the hamburger mixture.
6. Bake, covered, for 40-45 minutes at 350°F.
—- Amish Farm Style Beef Stew —
INGREDIENTS:
2-3 lbs boneless beef or steak cube
2 tablespoons shortening
1 large onion, sliced
4 cups boiling water
1 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
1 dash allspice and 1 dash cloves
1 lb peeled baby carrots
6 potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
1/2 cup cold water
1/4 cup flour
DIRECTIONS:
Melt shortening over high heat in a large pot or dutch oven.
Add beef cubes and brown over medium heat, stirring occasionally, about 15-20 minutes.
Add onions, boiling water, salt, lemon juice, sugar, worcestershire sauce, pepper, paprika, allspice and cloves.
Simmer, tightly covered, for about 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
Add vegetables and simmer another 30 minutes (covered), or until tender.
Note: if your lid is not tight on the pot, you may not have enough liquid left to just about cover everything after you add the veggies.
If this is the case, add more water to barely cover ingredients.
Mix cold water and flour together and blend until smooth.
Push meat and veggies to the side of the pot and add flour mixture slowly, incorporating into liquid.
When gravy thickens, stir all ingredients gently to distribute gravy evenly.
Simmer another 5 or 10 minutes and enjoy!
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