December 2nd, 2014 Last Updated on: January 8th, 2020
We serve frybread in place of dinner rolls at Thanksgiving Dinner.
We also enjoy it as a dessert, topped with powdered sugar.
It's not pre-contact food, but it's delicious at powwows as an NDN Taco, topped with cheese, meat, beans, lettuce and tomatoes.
We usually make healthy choices, so we can enjoy frybread as a treat!
Frybread Power!!!
My Great-Grandma Margaret's Frybread Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Plenty of Corn Oil to Fry It In
- 2 tablespoon baking powder
- 3 cups warm water
Directions
- Stir your flour, baking powder, and salt together in a glass mixing bowl.
- Then, add warm water and stir into dough.
- Knead the dough on floured wax paper.
- Flatten the dough into palm-size pieces.
- Fry the dough in hot oil (about 350 degrees) for 3 minutes, until it is golden brown.
Let's try to eat healthily most of the time, but Frybread is sure a fun way to celebrate Native Heritage Month!
We never actually used a recipe for frybread, since she cooked by the “handful” method…”a handful of this” or “a handful of that”! So, I recreated her recipe for y'all to enjoy!
Happy Native Heritage Month!
Pass the Frybread! We serve frybread in place of dinner rolls at Thanksgiving Dinner. We also enjoy it as a dessert, topped with powdered sugar. It's not pre-contact food, but it's delicious at powwows as an NDN Taco, topped with cheese, meat, beans, lettuce and tomatoes.
Great-Grandma Margaret's Frybread Recipe
Ingredients
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My mother made this and I ask her where it came from and she told me her mother made it came from her family and that is all. We know that we were part Indian. LOVE THE FOOD SHE MADE.
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wado for sharing these nice recipes, I love fry bread
wado for sharing recipes, I enjoy them very much,
Love the Indian fry bread, I am not with Indian blood in me but love the culture and live on a street that is called CAHUILLA, and my home has many imitations of Indian lore and pictures, etc, I feel warm when at a pow wow and have nothing but love for the American Indians, the Native Indians that are here around us, we can learn so much from them..Thank you for the recipe, so easy and cheap to make and so good as taco or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. thanks again.
I love fry bread.
Fry bread both my Kaku’s and my Mama made the best. I myself never measured like my Kaku’s and mama never measured. Ura for the recipe I’m going to give it a try. I am Comanche Nation In Oklahoma” Numunu “
I thought it was funny you make it for Thanksgiving! My mom always made it too on Thanksgiving for my father who is part Native. We had it for breakfast though. She started the turkey at 5:00 am (usually about a 25 pounder) then started cooking the frybread. That’s the smell we woke up to on Thanksgiving! After I had my own family I started cooking it for Thanksgiving breakfast too (and sometimes Christmas- can you really have too much frybread?!) my grandchildren love it too. They are at least 5 generation frybread eaters!
I’ve had this ,,,,,,,,,,,, but it’s been a loooooooooooooooong time ago.. It was always in the bread box along with those biscuits that my grandmother would make.. I chopped the kinhl’n for the stove..
I’d love to have a recipe for the seasoned meat used in the taco. I love them so much!
The meat is like taco meat! Just make it to your taste.
Is fry bread the same as an elephant ear
Similar, but different.
W grew up on Fry Bread. Mom made it. My Aunt made it. Grandma made it. I’ve only made it a few times but I’m going to make it again. We like it with butter but I think I’ll make some Indian Tacos!
By the way, It is made and sold at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival as plain or as Tacos!!