The parfait at Nacho Mama’s comes topped with a Native American berry sauce known as wojapi.
Nacho Mama’s Fry Bread Cafe serves breakfast with the beneficiant heat and sassy spirit of a sitcom diner. Proprietor Debra LeComb pours espresso and chats with prospects sitting all the way down to the Delridge restaurant’s titular nachos and fry bread. However sticking to these stars means lacking out on a particular dish, listed with out description underneath the breakfast facet dishes part: wojapi parfait.
The fry bread that stands in right here for tortillas within the taco, bread within the cheesesteak, bun of the burger, and the biscuit with gravy comes from current Native American delicacies. Wojapi, the thick berry sauce on the heart of the parfait, goes again a lot additional, lengthy earlier than the arrival of Europeans, when it was primarily made by the Lakota folks.
At Nacho Mama’s, LeComb makes it by cooking down blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and—when she will discover them—the normal chokecherries. The fruit condenses all day with solely honey added to it, and the result’s chunky and simply barely candy. The massive dollop on high of granola and yogurt within the wojapi parfait swirls the entire bowl into a superb berry-stained breakfast. And one simply mild sufficient to tack on a facet order of fry bread to spherical out the meal.
