NATIVE AMERICAN FRY-BREAD TACO
It’s the bread that is the secret ingredient that makes this taco so delicious!
Fry-bread is a native American all time favorite. It is the “Fry-Bread concessions that have the longest lines at the Pow Wows and Native American Dance and Drum Festivals. Fry-bread and especially fry bread Tacos will vary from tribe to tribe, band to band and family to family. Below is a recipe that is common to the Navajo and neighboring tribes.
RECIPE PRINTED FROM: THEGUTSYGOURMET.NET©
NATIVE AMERICAN TACOS
The secret to these is the fry-bread bread. Basically its just a taco, but served with awesome bread makes them a family favorite.
INGREDIENTS: MAKES 2 - 4
INGREDIENTS FOR FRY-BREAD MAKES (4 ) "6 - 7" or (2) 8" INCH FRY BREADS
● 1 Cup(s) unbleached flour
● ½ Teaspoon(s) Salt
● 5 or more Cup(s) Warm Water
● 1 Tablespoon(s) powdered milk
● 1 ½ Teaspoon(s) baking powder (add another ½ Teaspoon for more rise)
● ½ Cup(s) water
● 2 Cup(s) Cooking Oil for frying
Makes 3-4 fry-bread depending on the size you make the bread)
INGREDIENTS TACO TOPPING Suggestions**SEE COOK'S NOTE**
● 1 lb. Ground Drained Hamburger
● 1 Packet Taco Seasoning or use your own recipe (cumin, garlic salt, New Mexico chili powder)
● 1 can Cooked Black Beans or Pinto Beans
● ½ cup corn kernels
● Chopped Tomatoes
● Shredded iceberg Lettuce
● Grated Cheddar Cheese, Monterey pepper Jack, or Mexican cheese.
● Salsa, your favorite blend, red or green, hot or mild (salsa verde goes well)
● Sour Cream
 COOKS NOTE*
✸ Feel free to alter this recipe to your own tastes, especially the topping. Change the salsa, make it hotter or milder, use your favorite
beans, use pork, chicken or fish for the meat. Add Jalapeños or Chipotlè or load it up with your favorite cheese.
DIRECTIONS FOR FRY-BREAD:
1. Put all the dry ingredients in a large bowl together and whisk them together thoroughly.
2. Pour the water over the dry ingredients and stir them together with a fork until the mixture starts to clump up. I used a whisk in the video
and that’s OK! to start with but it gets messy when the clumping starts so I have elected to always use the fork in the future.
3. Now while the mixture is still in the bowl flour your hands.
4. Now use your hand or hands and begin rolling the dough or moving it about the bowl to pick up all the excess flour in the bowl to coat
the outside of the dough. Don’t knead the dough. You want to form a ball that is well floured on the outside and still doughy on the inside.
Kneading this dough will make the resulting product heavy and take away from it’s flexibility and chew. You want the inside of the dough
sticky after the ball is formed.
5. Cut the dough into 4 equal pieces and using your freshly floured hands you can stretch and shape and press the dough into any shape you
want. Navajo Taco’s do not have to been perfectly round as they are not a perfect dish. If you want to roll the dough into a ball and use a
roller for uniformity that is fine too. Form your dough into 6 to 7 inch rough diameters.
6. Heat your oil in pan. You want a minimum of ½ inch of oil in the pan. The skillet should be 10 -12 inches in diameter. Heat to 375℉.
7. Take your formed dough, and cooking each fry-bread one at a time gently place the dough into the hot oil so you don’t get any splatter.
8. Press your dough down with the flat of your spatula to get the fry bread to submerge in the oil to get some of the hot oil on the top of
the dough. You may want to do this a couple of time for each side of the fry-bread.
9. Fry each side until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Make sure they are golden brown on the outside. They will be chewy on the
inside.
10. The fry bread you make will stay warm in your oven while you make the filling. Do not heat in the microwave unless you know what you
are doing, as this will make the fry-bread tough and impossible to eat.
11. Now this recipe will make 3 to 4 fry 6-7 inch fry-breads. This is for an open face taco. If you want to fold them like a usual taco, you will
get two fry-breads about 8 inches in diameter from this recipe.
NOTE: ALTHOUGH NOT THE EXACT RECIPE PRESENTED, THE VIDEO BELOW MIGHT BE OF HELP TO YOU.
 U-TUBE VIDEO - HOW TO MAKE A FRY-BREAD NAVAJO STYLE TACO
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