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Indian Fry Bread Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Sunny / All my dishes 1 year, 1 month ago 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. = ) Prep:15m Cook:15m Servings:8	Sunny
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Ingredients

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

Directions

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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zena824 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Sunny.... Im going to try this even tho Im not good at making bread... thanks for the recipe
Zena824

edensong 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Looks like a winner!

krumkake 1 year ago said:
Oh, I haven't made Indian Fry Bread in years!! Thank you for rekindling a memory of making this tasty treat when our children were small. I will now have to introduce my 2 young grandchildren to this! We always dusted it with cinnamon sugar and drizzled with powdered sugar glaze, but I want to try your suggestion of using it as a tostada base - that sounds wonderful!

shirleyoma 9 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I love Fry Bread... this sounds VERY good!

sunnee2000 8 months, 1 week ago said:
I do this with Rhodes frozen rolls. When they thaw I roll them, pull them and smash them until they are thin, then I fry them in about 2" of lard. (Very heathy, eh?) Then I saturate them with butter and cinnamon/sugar combination. The kids love them and think I'm a fabulous cook.

Sunnee

heatherbudapest 8 months, 1 week ago said:
Hey, I'm so curious, Sunny -- did you take the photo of the little girl holding the bread?

efitobx 8 months, 1 week ago said:
Always enjoy Indian Fry Bread with Chili at the Meherrin Pow Wow in October. Thanks for sharing.

dianna_pwns 8 months ago said:
Ive tried a few different recipes for fry bread and this looks like the most simple yet sounds great! cant wait to try it! thank you for posting it, sunny.

invisiblechef 8 months ago said:
Sounds good. Love the pictures.. I love seeing kids cook!!

vertangie 7 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Ooh looks nice. Reminds me of indian (asian not amercian) chappati or paratha, I love stuffed paratha. I wonder if this could be stuffed with veggies and spices like they do?

kandi 7 months, 2 weeks ago said:
This looks like it will sooo good. I am going to make it for my family!! cant wait to try it..The pancakes look yummy as well...Boy I can just go crazy on you page alone!! Thanks Sunny!!!

gwennie 7 months, 2 weeks ago said:
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.

alaskacookin 7 months ago said:
Ooh ooh ooh! I gotta make this too! snowin outside ill be cookin up a storm! morning with honey and cinamon! but I have some left over turkey black bean and spicey tomato topping to put on right now!!

24thesweed 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I have been looking for a recipe for Indian Fry Bread, and look forward to trying your recipe. Have you ever made pumpkin fry bread? The Seminole Indians here in FL., made it at the local fairs and it is so good. Thanks a lot for sharing.

lynn210 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Sunny, this looks so good. I will be trying this very soon...

lor 6 months, 3 weeks ago said:
Hi again Sunny! I'm right there with Krumkake. I too have not made it in quite a long while. I often made it for my children when they were young and we loved it then just as much as we will love it now. Thank you for the gentle recipe nudge Sunny.
Fondly,
Lor

joyinabasket 6 months, 1 week ago said:
I love Naan and have not had Indian Fry bread in such a long time! Looks so easy and scrumptious! I can't wait to try it again! Yum!

indian chef 5 months, 3 weeks ago said:
I love naan bread! have never tried a fry bread before. looks yummy.will surely try making it. thnx for the post!

adacowan 4 months, 1 week ago said:
The bread looks positively yummy. However, I have to say that the little girl in the picture steals the show! =0)

patticasas 2 months, 4 weeks ago said:
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

navajojoe 2 months ago said:
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.

ravenseyes 2 months ago said:
Oh wow that looks so good cant wait to try it

analot 2 months ago said:
This bread sounds devine - I will definetly try it!

kwindancer 1 month, 2 weeks ago said:
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.

minitindel 1 month, 1 week ago said:
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

nash4343 4 days, 11 hours ago said:
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.

squirrel_nut 2 days, 23 hours ago said:
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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