Indian Fry Bread Recipe

Indian Fry Bread

From sunny 18 years ago

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15 minutes to make
Serves 8

This is an American Indian Staple. Much like the Tortilla or Naan. It's fabulous serverd as a side to Chile Verde or used as a base for tostada or drizzled with honey and eaten as dessert. = )

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- 3 C Flour
- 2 T Baking Powder
- 1 T Sugar
- 1 t Salt
- 2 T Lard or Crisco
- 2 C Cold Milk
- Crisco or Oil for frying or deep frier
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Ingredients

3 C flour shopping list
2 T baking powder shopping list
1 T sugar shopping list
1 t salt shopping list
2 T lard or Crisco shopping list
2 C Cold milk shopping list
Crisco or oil for frying or deep frier shopping list

How to make it

Mix all dry ingredients - cut in lard. Add milk to make a thick dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and kneed till it is elastic and not sticky.
Heat enough Crisco or Oil in a deep pan to fill bottom 1/2 inch of pan - or use deep frier.
Break off egg sized handfulls of dough and press between your fingers till they are 1/4 inch thick all over. Deep fry till golden brown on one side and turn over and fry for a few minutes on other side.
Place between paper towels to cool a bit and absorbe excess oil.
Serve warm as a side to stews, salads, Carne Asada or use as a base for tostadas.
Option - use golf ball size pieces of dough and when they are cooked you can drizle them with honey and or powdered sugar as a dessert.

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" It was good "
cayennedor ate it and said...
tried it .very good indeed
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" It was excellent "
10hooperj ate it and said...
it was like eating a laptop
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dreamer1459 13 years ago
delicious!!!
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Terry50 14 years ago
these are very good & when they are done & still hot you can put them in a bag of sugar & cinnamon & shake them till coated.very good snack or dessert.
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duffyflo 14 years ago
This is not Indian Fry Bread..it's flat funnel cake. Indians don't put sugar or milk in their recipes..please name it something else instead of Indian Fry Bread.
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" It was excellent "
ariadnebarzane ate it and said...
Yummy!! Honey & powdered sugar....Fresh from the pan...WOW!!
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colleencups 14 years ago
I like to use this bread for eating chole (THE BEST asian-indian delight! You just need a bag of mix you can get at a grocery store and a can of chickpeas!) and I bet this would be EXCELLENT GF! good call caramia!
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sunflower48386 16 years ago
this little girl is so cute. I love fry bread. my friend and I went to wapole island powwows. so much fun
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falafel_fanatic 16 years ago
I will try it but without the lard of course! I like frybread!
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" It was excellent "
caramia ate it and said...
Oh Im trying this one GF sound delicious,and a 5 to you my friend

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squirrel_nut 16 years ago
thats a really nice point, kwindancer. peanut oil
in a cast iron pan. dont start frying until oil is 350-375 degF. the cast iron will help keep the oil at a high enough temperature to limit absorbtion. my family loves fry bread with green chili stew. i usually make the puffy style
but have been wanting to try this type of flat bread. thanks for the recipe!
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nash4343 16 years ago
I get these when I am at the fair with beans, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, salsa, and olives on it. Just like a big tostada. It is AWESOME!!! I miss them.
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minitindel 17 years ago
i have several fry bread recipes we used to make it alot when i lived in montana and oklahoma lots of indians there and was at all of events and pow wows, that they served it i love it thanks
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kwindancer 17 years ago
3 C Flour
2 T Baking Powder
1 T Sugar
1 t Salt
2 T Lard or Crisco
2 C Cold Milk
Crisco or Oil for frying or deep frier
The way I make my fried bread is to leave out the lard /crisco you don't need it it will weight the bread down. And mainly don't over work the flour. If you cook it in oil use Peanut oil it cooks at a high temp. You need to cook the bread fast so it dosen't take in the oil. To make the dough easy to fry spread oil on a platic chopping broad and spead it out with your fingers then drop into a deep fryer until golden brown. At some of the powwows in Va I have my fav cooks and I've learn how to make it from them. To also make it lighter you can add fast active yeast to the mix. Then top with the buffalo or hamberger meat lettice, tomatoe, cheese it better if you ask for more juice on it.

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analot 17 years ago
This bread sounds devine - I will definetly try it!
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" It was excellent "
ravenseyes ate it and said...
oh wow that looks so good cant wait to try it
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navajojoe 17 years ago
This recipe tastes good, but it does not taste like Indian Fry Bread. Instead, it taste like a funnel cake, or a pancake. A mexican sopapilla taste more like Indian fry bread than this recipe. Again, the bread tastes good, but something is not right with this recipe. It may be the sugar - perhaps taking out the sugar would have made it taste less like a funnel cake or pancake.
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patticasas 17 years ago
Hi Sunny, this looks delicious! I will try to make it this weekend. What i really like about this naan bread is that the recipe is very easy to follow and the best part is that i have all the ingredients.
ThanX's
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adacowan 17 years ago
The bread looks positively yummy. However, I have to say that the little girl in the picture steals the show! =0)
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indian chef 17 years ago
i love naan bread! have never tried a fry bread before. looks yummy.will surely try making it. thnx for the post!
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Reviewed by 17 people

I love Fry Bread... this sounds VERY good!

shirleyoma in Cove loved it
You know this is such a comfort food and it is great to eat alone or even with a stew or main dish. what a wonderful piece of culture. Thanks for the recipe share.

gwennie in Puyallup loved it
oh wow that looks so good cant wait to try it

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