Fry Bread. Combine flour, salt, and baking powder. Knead until soft but not sticky. Tips/Techniques All “fry bread” recipes vary in Native America, and no single recipe is the right one.
It’s also served in Oklahoma and Colorado as an “Indian taco,” topped with ingredients like ground beef, shredded cheddar, lettuce, tomato, and salsa that would normally be served in a hard taco shell. Crispy, doughy and totally delicious, this fry bread is fantastic with nearly any sweet or savory toppings you can think of. We love it with a little butter, a drizzle of honey and a squeeze of lemon. —Thelma Tyler, Dragoon, Arizona Authentic Indian Fry Bread. You can cook Fry Bread using 5 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Fry Bread
- You need 4-5 cups of flour (use half AP and half self rising).
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder (fresh).
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1 of & 1/2 to 2 cups lukewarm water.
- You need of Oil for frying (I used Canola).
Authentic Indian Fry Bread is a beloved tradition in the Western United States. Serve it up savory as Navajo Tacos or go the sweet side and serve it up with a little honey butter and powdered sugar. Serve up a batch of this quick and easy fry bread as a side dish or with jams, honey, or maple syrup for a decadent brunch treat. Frybread (also spelled fry bread) is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.
Fry Bread instructions
- Sift the dry ingredients together in a large bowl and make a well in the center.
- Add the water slowly while stirring the mix with your hand you may not need all the water.
- When it comes to a nice dough cover it and let it rest for 15 minutes.
- Heat your oil to medium heat you may need to turn it down after you fry the first one depending on your stove.
- Grab a small ball of dough and start flattening it with your hands and continue onto a floured surface (you can roll it if you want but it won’t be the same texture as the hand method) Make it as flat as you can.
- Poke a whole in the middle of your flat dough so it won’t poof up too much while frying it.
- Lay the piece carefully flat in the oil and only fry each side for a few seconds until Golden on each side.
- Use tongs and flip it over and fry the other side (this won’t take long).
- When ready take your fry bread out of the oil carefully with the tongs and lay it sideways up to drain and place on paper towels.
- Do each piece until dough is gone makes about 4-5-6 pieces depending on how big the dough balls you made.
- Use these to make Indian tacos they are so much better than the store bought stuff or you can just drizzle on some honey and eat it that way… ENJOY 😋😘.
Made with simple ingredients, frybread can be eaten alone or with various toppings such as honey, jam, powdered sugar, venison, or beef. Frybread can also be made into tacos, like Navajo tacos However, the fry bread in the Indian Taco photos is not the right fry bread. It’s the wrong fry bread because I messed it up. But I’d already made the taco toppings and was running out of time, so I went ahead and finished the tacos, planning to make a better batch of fry bread later. Authentic Indian Fry Bread Recipe is a classic Navajo recipe of dough deep fried until golden brown and covered in savory or sweet toppings to enjoy!