My family was blessed to have Navajo neighbors that taught us how to make fry bread. When we would struggle and wouldn’t have any money to buy some food we would make fry bread and add whatever we had in fridge. That for sure saved my family and I from starving. God bless The Navajo people💙
@@RalphReagan problem is I tried this one and no one liked it. I found the traditional version but it uses milk and I know for a fact the one I learned doesn’t use milk.. but it looks exactly like the one I learned and loved
As a Creek Indian, you just made my day. I can tell you something you can do, cook hamburger thick patties, dip them in the batter mixture then fry them. Its frybread hamburger pies.
No one ever given me that idea before! I've had this since childhood and Indian fry bread hamburgers sounds like nearly the best possible thing I can make! I just wanted to say thank you for your comment cause that just made my day!! I know that all of my reading of comments on not just my posts but on others posts as well has a purpose!! Thanks again
Many years ago I was traveling the back roads in Arizona. I saw a small truck by the side of the road with a sign and an older woman and two beautiful young girls. The sign said Navaho Fry Bread so I stopped. As the woman fried it up the girls were talking in what I presume was Navajo. It was enchanting listening to them. It was like they were singing. I'll never forget that experience!
@@terryboyer1342 Hey Terry! I live in Illinois, so I have made several trips to Michigan. The farthest north I have been is Charlevoix-- and yes-- it is a beautiful state. I also love northern Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan are both very unsung states-- unless you live around hear and know their natural beauty. I think that's why I like New Mexico so much. You have the best of both worlds-- the beauty of the desert and the forest up in the Sandia mountains.
Many yrs ago my late Mother in law was making this patting out her dough with her small brown hands. Her family was extremely poor and extended back to the Oklahoma trail of tears. She didn't say much but on this day as she cooked her fried bread & a pot of beans she was smiling & humming. I asked why she was so happy this day & without ever looking up she said " because i have people that i love that I am sharing my meal with" ! And truly the bread was the best i have ever had. Those simple words in her small run down kitchen left an impression on me & taught me a valuable lesson.
@@lulumoon6942 yes she kept her Indigenous nation close to her soul. After the death of my husband ( her only son) her & her husband were never the same. They both have passed. 😥
My brother had a job in New Mexico and brought back the recipe for fry bread. So good! Later, I lived in Canada where the native people made "bannock", the same thing. Nothing better than a shore lunch of fresh-caught fish and bannock. Later, I lived in Greece and invited an Australian girl for lunch. "You made damper!", she exclaimed. That's what the aboriginal people of Australia call exactly the same thing. Fry bread around the world!
Fry bread is how you intend to cook it. We call it fried bread because thats how it was cooked. You dont call toast, toast bread. When its cooked its called toast!
The best Thanksgiving I ever had is when we were invited to stay on the Navajo rez. Good company, stories around the campfire, I was taught by the Navajo women how to make the fry bread on a rocket stove. Just was one of the best memories in my life. I make sure to tell others about the beauty and hospitality of the Navajo culture and its people ❤
The best fried bread I've ever had was at the flea market in Gallup, NM. There used to be this old red travel trailer set up there, you'd go in the door and there were two long tables. Everyone sat together and ate. I'd take my Grandfather sometimes and we'd have Navajo tacos and coffee. I have great memories of sitting with strangers and sharing a meal with them, and it helps me stay connected to my Grandfather who passed away many, many years ago.
I must say that the memories of eating fry breads from different cultures and backgrounds on the comments here have been an absolute delight! Very uplifting! Thank you!
I went on a camping trip with my family years ago and we happened upon two women at the camp grounds who were making fry bread in a great big iron kettle. It was truly one of the absolute best things I have ever eaten in my entire life. I was about 7 or 8 and I still remember it . I just loved those two ladies. They were so kind and so friendly. I’ve dreamed my whole life of learning to make that bread. Unforgettable.
So, have you made them yet? I was born in New Mexico and I grew up on them, but I'm Hispanic and they are called Sopaipillas. You can also cut them into squares before cooking them, and afterwards have a bowl of sugar and cinnamon ready to put them in. Get them covered with the sugar and cinnamon and you're golden
My Irish grandmother used to make this occasionally and called it "fried dough". We ate it with butter and jam on it, with boston baked beans on the side. That was our dinner. We looked forward to it.
They look delicious. I would eat that. But we have to keep going. Maybe it is only my problem, but ever since my brother got killed in an accident at Scenic, Arizona, i don't trust these people. Scenic is a place outside of Mesquite, nevada. Fuck them, what you see as you drive by on the interstate is all you are going to get. You all can stop here and drop a few lawyers.
Love this. I am a South African. We make something much the same. Dough, made into balls. We then fry the whole ball in oil. We then cut the fried dough open, half way, and fill it with cooked ground beef, spicy, or how ever you enjoy ground beef, and what ever else you enjoy . WHY not try it 😁🙄🤗
That's a yummy idea. I've made frybread and, what I call "fryballs" many times but never thought to make them big enough to stuff. I'm going to try it!!
Hi, use standard bread dough, with yeast That has risen.. Roll it out, and make about 15 balls of dough. LET rest for about 10 min. Warm oil on a stove to medium to hot, and add some balls of dough, cook to golden brown and turn around for the top part to also cook golden brown. Ou cooked rolls onto paper towel to drain oil. Cut opeen, CUT open, butnot through into 2 halves Filling, from cheese and jam, to mince meat, as in shepherds pie. ENJOY
I have been making fry bread for years. My husband is Native American and needs his fry bread at least three times a week. We either have tacos or he uses it in place of bread. He will wrap a hot link with it or open it and stuff with beans and cheese. Whatever his heart desires.
Add some brown sugar or cinnamon, Sometimes i add fruit for a sweet treat. other times I just Stuff with cooked meat & cheese always does the trick for me.
@@LG-xs7ud Flour, corn, potato, carbs are the blank canvas for the chefs of the world to paint on. The ingredient is simple, yet so many ways to prepare depending on the culture. I grew up with grits seasoned with salt, pepper, some butter, and cheese if we are feeling hedonistic. I've traveled a lot, learned new cooking techniques, then used what I learned to put my own spin on grits. I've since seasoned my grits with everything from Sichuan peppercorn to sumac. (The Sumac was pretty good, something I learned about from a Middle-Eastern buddy of mine.) I even once tried making Japanese curry, but swapped the rice for grits, worked pretty well. I love trying a new spin on something I am familiar with. This is a bit tangential I'll admit, but your comment reminded me of my own experiences. Cooking can really be an art, a way to share culture that anyone can appreciate. I've gone back to being a college student, I think I'll try my hand at fry bread since I got a lot of flour from a friend who graduated.
My sister in law made the best fried bread with a fried pork chop or mutton stew green chili yum. Blue bird flour is the best to use with the blue box of lard can't remember the name. OK made myself hungry
I went through some slim years and figured out if you use some flour, baking soda and maybe chili powder plus garlic, basil, and put water in, I fry it like a pancake. Or drop spoonfuls in boiling water that has a little seasoning from a ramen packet, or a little spaghetti sauce and touch of bouillon in it, that's good. If you're hungry, and use some whole wheat flour with regular or unbleached, that's filling and has good fiber. The unbleached flour is hard to tell from regular all purpose flour and is same price. It does not raise your blood sugar nearly as much.
When my daughter was small we lived in New Mexico, I learned how to make fry bread from my Navajo sister in law. When groceries had to stretch we would have Navajo tacos a few times a week. Since I had home canned pinto beans and tomatoes. It cost almost nothing for a hearty meal. Thanks for reminding me how much I love fry bread.
I. experienced Pinto beans when I was younger. If you've got the right cook. So many food pantries and Hospitals, and the food is so bland. I'm on a mission to change that !!!
I am Oglala Sioux and I grew up eating frybread with wojopi or Indian tacos until I moved to Florida at the age of 11 and completely disconnected from my culture and I’m so excited to make this for my husband and my son who are Guatemalan 🩷 thank you for this recipe.
I truly appreciate and love how so many different cultures around the world have commented that they have similar types of fry bread! If only we all allowed more sharing of knowledge! Blessings to all who positively shared! You show what humanity should be able to do!
I Have learned about cultures through food. It's amazing. Every culture has a form of fried or flat bread. Every culture has a form of yellow rice. I found this to be amazing!
@@maryfalco9368 The human body doesn't need it. We evolved eating animals, nuts, berries, and raw plants. Wheat, pasta, bread and processed starches came much later in our evolution. We are putting processed starches into stoneage bodies. This is what causes weight gain and diseases like diabetes along with processed sugars.
During my summers of high school, I worked with my cousins at Ft. Defiance, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation, teaching VBS. We went from house to house, and hogon to hogon, inviting the Navajo children to VBS. I remember my first year, we were invited inside an old Navajo woman's hogon to ask permission for her grandkids to attend VBS. She didn't (or wouldn't) speak English. Her grade school grandson translated for us. She was sitting in the middle of the dirt floor making fry bread. She cooked on a fire bed. I was amazed and inspired by her generosity and her values in keeping the old ways alive. She looked to be around 80+ years old. Wearing multiple layers of clothing over a long thick skirt, with a pipe next to her. Outside the hogon was a blanket being weaved, draped on rods of spool woven multi-colored thread. Nothing but the hogon and several miles of dusty hillsides and hard land for her homestead. She poked a hole in the fry bread before laying it in the sizzling pan. This was to allow the spirits to pass thru. Her voice quivered as she spoke a beautiful language. She bore the years of a long hard life. Yet I felt such peace in her presence. She was happy. She was tired. She was spiritual. She offered us some fry bread as a gift of thanks. I cherish my memoirs.
I can relate to this eighty-year-old Navajo grandmother. I'm 77 now and this year I decided to go back to long dresses or skirts layered this winter. I roll my own tobacco in cigarette papers but I do have a catalog that I buy my tobacco from and they have lots of pipes. In the past when I ran out of cigarette paper, I cut up notebook paper and it works just fine. You just have to use slobber all along the way to make it stick. I live a simple life and I am happy. I don't have the energy I used to have but then I was never one to want to run marathons. My face is weathered by the Southern California sunshine. I have an ancestor that probably walk the Trail of Tears and had their share of fry bread along the way. I think I've always been a little hard of hearing due to spending my first two months in an incubator. Learning to speak a second language later in life would be very difficult for me and frustrating for anyone trying to teach me. I tried both German and Spanish but had to give up. Unlike her I never had children, but if I did I would likewise try to pass on the old ways.
Ingredients: 3 c flour 1Tsp salt 2tsp baking powder Water appropriately 1 cup warm water Mix until fully incorporated add flour slowly until stickiness goes away Cover Let rise 20-30mins Divide dough into large egg size portions Parchment paper is best alternative can be floured wax paper Grease simmering during preparation in a frying pan Stretch out dough like a tortilla or small pizza by hand making it thin- fry until golden brown on both sides- drain Add desired toppings (chili beans, cheese,lettuce, tomatoes (sour cream) ) Say Grace in Jesus’s mighty name and enjoy! Makes 8 servings
Me and my Dad had Navajo tacos at a little truck stop in Tuba City, AZ. We were on a motorcycle trip on the way back from Sturgis SD one year. It’s one of the best meals I’ve had on the road. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
@@LAVIN20 yes this maybe true but it has happened in every culture in the world the strong preying on the weakto be honest i dobt think it will ever stop humans are a greedy race not like animal s which only eat what they need dont you agree
When I was in third grade, we were studying Native Americans and out teacher did a demonstration in class of how to make fry bread and I still remember how good it was. She fried the dough right in class and we all got a piece. This looks very much how I remember it, thanks.
My wife had dreamed of visiting the Grand Canyon for almost 50 years and so finally we went, for Thanksgiving, and her daughter and son in law who live on the W. coast met us there. Our first day in Arizona we were told in Holbrook not to just blow through town and miss the Navajo Taco at Mr. Maesta's cafe and it was fantastic! Then on the drive back to New Orleans from the Grand Canyon (and painted desert and petrified forest and all the other mandatory tourist stuff) we passed through Holbrook again and had another go at the Navajo Taco and resolved to look for a recipe on youtube to make fry bread and make it correctly, not just a deep fried flour tortilla. Well, I forgot all about it and your vid popped up in my youtube feed. So thanks for making the video! We will be making some, probably tomorrow or the next day. And of course topping them with beans, ground beef, cheese, and red chile. It's gonna be awesome.
We went to the Grand Canyon years ago in the 1990’s n there was a restaurant down in the Canyon with an old motel near it, we got these fajitas and we’ve never tasted any better n it was still sizzling and not soggy when it came to the table. Everything tasted great! We didn’t get the tacos. Bummer. Thanks for sharing that.
I’m a Southerner, from Alabama. We of course love our “soup beans” and cornbread. Isn’t it nice knowing how similarly people live, even separated by miles and nationalities. Such simple foods kept us alive in hard times, and still nourish us today. 😊
I'm multiple native American and German. So I know a few ways to make this! It's always good.. we ate ours with cinnamon and sugar. Or just butter n salt. Just like a pancake, the edges get done its time to flip! Mom never made cute circles. She just stretched the bejesus out if it, tossed it on the stove. We actually had a cast iron cook stove. Had to get wood before you cooked anything. I was about 13 when we moved from the farm, got a real stove and a real bathroom.
My daddy was Cherokee/Blackfoot I was raised on this bread He is deceased many years now and left no recipe.. I’m so grateful to have found you making this.. 😋 I will be making some later this evening.. Thank You so much 😊
I went to college in the southwest. I have fond memories of stopping at roadside stands when driving through the Navajo reservation with my best friend and buying Indian tacos for lunch. We'd sit at the picnic tables and just devour them before hopping back on our motorcycles and heading off again. The Navajo people were so kind and welcoming. I should try to make these myself one of these days. Thank you for the demonstration, Rhonda!
Having lived in southeast Arizona several years, we often had Apache frybread. We traveled north through to Canyon duche, Chinle to Four corners. Sometimes up to Showlow. Get Navajo fry bread wherever we could find it. My wife made it but while stretching it dropped hers. OOPS, good laughs her and the ladies prepping for gatherings. Nothing like frybread and blade steak. Shake powder sugar on a piece, better than cake for dessert. Thank you for sharing a tradition that needs shared and kept alive.
Thankfully, many cultures have some wonderful type of fried bread. I’ve had beignets, sopapillas and Navajo fry bread. Thanks for sharing information about yours.
WOW! I am Hungarian but we call this "lángos". Although over there it is eaten with garlic and salt, cheese and sour creme, cheese and ham and sour creme, sometimes with shredded sauteed cabbage with black pepper and salt sealed inside the dough and fried. Look up "langos" or "lángos" in correct spelling. Amazing how so different people have so similar recipes! Although they tend to use yeast for leavening agent rather than baking powder. Congratulations to the video! I'll be definitely trying this. Looks and sounds delicious! Lángos is a very common and fairly cheap street side fast food, commonly available in Hungary.
OMG I had Langos at Lake Balaton ,it was the best thing apart from the BBQ which was basically the best smokey bacon fat heldover a flame dripped onto a yummy bread chunk and the topped with chunks of the freshest crispest capsicum....I love Hungary so much I am from New Zealand and long to go back......
100th like! I saw that too, what a great idea! My stove is a complete mess, the only way I could clean it would be to sandblast it! 😅. I just don’t care anymore cuz it’s such a cheap stove, if there’s anything in the oven, you can’t touch any part of it without hot pads. Anyway, fry bread looks great! Thank you!
I added some olive oil to the dough and some rosemary, used olive oil to barely cover pan bottom. Put my stretched dough in, covered, checked when bottom brown, flipped over to brown other side while adding my pizza sauce, mozzarella, already sauted mushrooms to the top w parsely, yum, awesome crispy pizza!
@Sunshine 🌠 Sunshine 🌠 sounds like they used the stovetop. I imagine covering the pan with the lid would build up some steam to cook the top. Plus when flipped, the residual heat will help melt the cheese. Just make sure to cook/saute the toppings since it's not heating the top like a typical pizza.
@Sunshine 🌠 Sunshine 🌠 no prob! Prob should've included: if you're using the amount of oil in the video, be careful about covering it with a lid. The steam causes water droplets to hit the oil, which can get...dicey lol. I toe a fine line everytime I pan-fry dumplings. If you're just using a bit of olive oil, like just enough to coat a bit of the pan, it should be fine.
Man thank you I am so glad I ran onto you because my grandmother used to make fried bread when I was a little girl and I have been craving that for the past 45 years and it's a true blessing that I found you so now I know the how to make what she used to make for me you are a blessing
I am so glad this popped up in my feed. My grandmother was part Cherokee and could pop out lots of fry bread on saturdays...with a little honey for treat. Haven't had it since she passed 30 years ago!
I remember a neighbor making this when I was a teen. Her husband was a native Indian living in Alabama. I don’t know what tribe he was from. His wife made this everyday with other stuff and man it was delicious. I thought it was fried cornbread being in Alabama but I am realizing it was this fried bread! Awesome. My daddy is from New Mexico and lived on an Indian reservation but he never talks about his youth or Vietnam as a soldier other than being really poor.
Some of my best memories are of visiting my best friend's house as a kid and her mom teaching me how to make frybread. I don't make it very often but when I do I always have great memories of their warm inviting home and the traditions they shared with me. Thanks for the early morning dose of nostalgia. I think I need some frybread now. ❤️
My husband and I ate at a Bosnian restaurant in Houston and the bread was my favorite thing. It tasted just like a bread my mom made when I was growing up, but she can no longer remember. I'm so pleased to know this is the same.
Wow! I love fry bread. My grandmother made fry bread for breakfast when I spent summers with her. Fry bread was used as a substitute for pancakes, and bacon and eggs on the side. In my opinion, fry bread taste better than pancakes.
I’m not Native American but i grew up with something similar that was passed down through my grandparents which was frying up our yeasted bread dough just like you did with your Navaho frybread. We’d flatten yeast bread dough and fry it until golden brown and cooked in the middle then spread butter and sprinkle sugar on the hot fried bread. It’s a treat I love to make once i. A while but I’ve not yet tried this recipe. I’ve had frybread made in LaConner Washington by the local Swinomish tribe there and it was wonderful.
@watrgrl2: La Conner is the cutest area. :)...Your comment reminded me of the one above, by @derrydownbeat, talking about the different fry bread around the world. 😊
This is too cool! Just a few years ago, when I was 20, I got laid off for several months from a minimum wage job...$3.35/hour. Okay more than a few years ago, it was 38 years ago. I was pretty destitute, just had a bag of flour and some potatoes. I hunted for meat every day, squirrels, rabbits, and grouse. I came across a recipe in a Mazola corn oil cookbook for "fry bread". That recipe got used so many times over the next few months before going back to work. I plan on making this for my grandkids since running past this video. Thanks!
NO, it' wasn't just a few years ago. The US Federal Minimum Wage has been $7.26 since 2009. THAT'S 14 YEARS. It hasn't been $3.35 since 1990. That's 32 YEARS. If you have "GRANDKIDS" then also, NO, you weren't 20 "just a few years ago".
@huitrecouture I don't suppose you understood the humor.....if you did, you surely would have understood the mention of a few years ago as older people humor. I was 20 just a few years ago too😂 (I'm 65)
I lived on the rez for a few years when I was very young, and I loved fry bread. It's been a long time, and I had no idea it was this easy to make. Going to have to try it myself!
This makes me travel back to playing in the Pawnee dirt while my grandmother and the other War Mothers filled the air with the smell of hundreds of fry bread in preparation of the 4th of July Powwow.
When I was a kid, we were on a monthly budget (my father only got paid once a month). I remember my mom making fried bread adding cheese and folding it over to make an empanada de queso towards the end of the month when we were down to the last week or so. I'm Puerto Rican and I loved it! If you seasoned the flour with sazon, and pepper, etc. Made the batter more to a liquid, add bacalao (soaked in water and drained salted cod to take the salt out) and fried it, that is a bacalaito! Funny how cultures around the world (and even within our own countries) are sooooo similar. Thank you for showing us your recepie.
It's amazing to me what parents do to MAKE-DO. Making the money stretch for an entire month is not easy, but creative people always find a way. God bless your parents for raising you in such a creative way. And you had FUN. Many more live in poverty and despise it and become thieves. But your parents taught you better.
My daughter-in-law is Navajo and I've had Navajo fry bread many times at get-togethers especially. She, her husband (my son) and their son live in Colorado so I don't see them often. When I'm there though I'm treated to Navajo cooking and it's all been delicious. Thank you for making this video. Her mother showed me how to make it but I didn't write it down so this is awesome.
My mother is Seneca & Nanticoke. I remember my grandmother making fry bread with us when I was little but sometimes she would have us make a hole in the middle with our thumb for our wishes to pass thru. She'd sprinkle cinnamon sugar on them or drizzle honey in them. My mother never did any traditional cooking so all I ever learned was my gran's fry bread.
I am Italian and we make these and called them fried dough pizza, we top with tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese. You really can top them with whatever your imagination comes up with. I'm so hungry now...!
I’m from NM and when we’d go fishing there were little stands on the side of the road where these tacos were being made. I loved it. No one makes red chile the Native Americans. Soooo good.
This video inspired me to give it a try. I made them a little too thin, but overall these were fantastic! For anyone reading this, fresh honeybutter is easy to make and tastes amazing on fresh fry bread,
First time I ever had it, it had cranberry salsa on it. WOW! Later had an Apache friend who taught me lots of Indian and Mexican foods like this. I still can see him eating serrano peppers like candy bars. RIP, my friend.
yum. had my first indian taco at a little cafe outside Badlands NP in South Dakota after visiting the park with my mom. That was 40 years ago and i remember that meal clearly today. It was absolutely delicious, and the cook came out and watched us eat and didn't want to charge us for it when he saw how much we enjoyed his food. It was much more than a meal it was nourishment for the soul.
Some of the best food I've eaten was during the powwow in kayenta. The Navajo are great cooks! The fry bread is excellent, Navajo tacos and tamales were so good. The people didn't care for a white guy living there, until they got to know me. Then they warmed up and accepted me into the people. Awesome people there!
I'm from the Caribbean and every single adult had this for breakfast as a kid at some time in their life...It was a staple along with fried fish and cocoa tea made from 100% ground cocoa beans. The exact, same recipe...Some called it "fried bake" some called it "floaters" or other names, depending on which part of the Caribbean you were from.
I’m Caribbean too (Jamaican) and this is almost the same as fried dumplin (Johnny cakes) and eaten with Jamaica’s national dish: Ackee and salt fish. Lovely execution on the bread. So much like my mom’s technique.
My grandmother used to make this when we were kids. We just called it fried bread. But she was Cherokee. We never thought much of it. It was just who she was.🥰
Cherokee. Some believe one of the 10 lost tribe's of Israel.that may have migrated here long ago. A recipe that was more than likely brought with them. Never had this. Is it similar to flat bread ? Something I love so I'm sure I would like this.
It's basic fry bread. A recipe that's practically instinctive for the Native Peoples. Unleavened bread of the Bible, has no yeast and stays fresh for a couple days before bleah. I thought everyone knew it. I discovered I was wrong when I moved to a city in Texas, where NOBODY EVER had heard of it or eaten it... except for the Hispanic community, where it's almost as much a staple as tacos (flour tortillas wrapped around pretty much anything that will fit and taste decent).
@@Bitterstone3849 I'm part Cherokee and remain open to these ideas, but it seems like the tribe originated as a segment of the Iroquois that split off about 4,000 years ago.
My precious daughter in law, is a Native American. She is Lakota Sioux. And she shared with me how to make their bread. It's amazing. I call it fried biscuits! You can put just about anything on it. Or in it. It's really good!!!
This is awesome ! In India we tend to eat different kinds of flat bread (roti, naan, kulcha, puri, batura, paratha, stuffed-paratha, etc). This recipe looks closest to a 'Batura'. They are so yummy. Chole (garbanzo) bature looks close to the preparation presented here, although the red kidney beans are closer to the Indian 'Rajma'. Thanks for showing the details to prepare the Navajo fried bread.
I just watch a video on Roti. It's literally the same thing minus baking powder, and not fried. This is definitely going in the cook book. It's so simple
@@osirisasar2392 Also, Roti is made from whole wheat flour, and not refined flours. It is the more traditional version that large section of people from northern regions of India ate for ages. Roti has two version, one which is made in a 'tandoor' oven, the tandoori roti (this version is usually not made at home, but more in restaurants) and another which is made at home with normal wood or gas stoves (versions are called 'phulka', chapati, etc). There are also non-wheat based 'roti' that are also common in India. For example, 'roti's made from sorghum, millets, etc, (often called 'bhakri' in central India), are also very nice and often more nutritious than wheat based 'roti'.
My fondest memory of my dad was his plate sized fried bread,,, so good, and hot peppers. I'm thankful that he taught me when I was young. In turn I've taught my sons, whom now make it like dad.
This is an amazing treat, when you don't have much food in the house, a few simple ingredients and it's just so good! For the kids, I like to brush it with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar 😋
Us Mexicans call those buñuelos, I had never seen how to make them till now that my son sent me the recipe, he went to the university in New Mexico and just loved them.
Try dry herbs and a bit of salt dusted over the fry bread right when it comes out of the oil. It's great with lunch or dinner and the whole family loves it.
Nice to see other Native cultures make Fried bread. We Alaskans have been making this for what seems like forever. Ours is made using full bread dough, and we eat it with butter, honey, and/or karo-syrup. Has always been one of my favorite treats over the past 55 years. Happy to see we all keep up with our traditions, no matter what Nation we come from. Thank you for sharing!
I’m from East Indian heritage and it’s the same way I use my hand to enlarge each roti… never need to use a rolling pin. I felt really connected to your style and heritage Rhonda😊. Thanks for sharing!
Being from Southern California I've known and worked with a lot of Navajo. I've had fry bread from my friend's wives and an old girlfriend, but never more than general instructions on how to make it. Since the ingredients are so simple the technique is everything. Thanks for showing how to do it. I'll never be as good as a Navajo but I think I can make an acceptable substitute thanks to you!
The best meal I ever had was this after a 9-mile round trip hike of the Grand Canyon. Never so hungry, never so happy a tummy! I also got some while driving through Navajo Country on the same trip but with topped with just honey. Sooooo gooooood! Thank you for sharing your family recipe.
@@richardpena7153 He is right though. Full of flour, salt, and cooking oil. The very worst combination. Top them sugar, butter and jam like some people are doing, and you've probably got the most terrible food in the world. Seriously, I wouldn't eat these more than once a month!
I’m so happy to see this recipe! I had this in Arizona as a young teen. There is nothing like good Navajo fry bread, and I haven’t had any of this since 1978!!!!! I have thought about it for a lifetime, but nothing came close. Thank you!! Im going to make it today!
I was introduced to fry bread when I lived in Colorado. I think Navajo tacos are one of the best things to eat. The seasoning in the meat/beans, is different than Mexican tacos, and it is delicious. Of course, I still eat tacos from everywhere else. They truly are a great meal with everything in one bite!!
Seeing people from all over the world commenting that they make a similar thing at home reminded me of an argument I witnessed years ago. A Chinese fellow was saying that Marco Polo stole Pizza from the Chinese, who called it "Pinza". After a short argument my mother in law said, "Baloney, nobody invented pizza. For as long as there has been any kind of bread made from any kind of flour there's been cooks that flatten a piece of dough, put some stuff on it, and throw it in the oven!" LOL! She shut everybody up.
Pretty amazing how people need to "denounce cultural appropriation" nowaday everytime someone does something ^^" You mother in law is right and she seems to be a fun personn to talk to :D
My grandfather called it pinza; we never knew where he got it from though. (Asking him while he was alive would have been like questioning his authority!)
@Free HongKong Yes, because wheat came from the Middle East by way of Europe. But indigenous Americans did develop the secret to nixtamalization of maize, which is an amazing process and renders the maize much more nutritious and delicious for use in baking and other types of preparations. It's unfortunate that when colonisers carried maize to other parts of the world, they did not share this process, whether through ignorance or indifference.
+David Allison poor people that do not understand the difference between a "flatten piece of dough, put some stuff on it, and throw it in the oven" and Pizza... that's why china will never produce anything good... the closer ppl get to God, greater is the spirit and sensitivity for quality... Europe did not flourish because of the weather, but after they became Catholic, then they've gotten the gift of intelligence, from there universities, art, engineering, etc etc reached its top... to prepare a really tasty and great pizza requires knowledge and practice... it is not just a flat dough... pathetic. It is same as saying oh the pieta de Michel Angelo Buonarotti is s piece of stone... really sad that your mother lived a life of ignorance and was transferred to you since you celebrate that! hope you will find light in your spirit soon... appreciate art... develop sensitivity for beauty... only then you will enjoy life, including food.
The first time I tried fry bread was at the solstice celebration in my city. It was fry bread with peameal bacon sandwiches. I was in heaven. I wanted to marry the sandwich. I will try this at home. Thank you!
Growing up in AZ we had Navajo fry bread a lot. It was always my favorite thing to eat. We had it with refried beans instead of chili beans and for a treat we would have it drizzled with honey and powdered sugar. I'm not sure which one i love best. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I once went to the Lac du Flambeau area of Wisconsin, in July, and there was a small-town 4th of July parade. The Ojibwa of that area danced in the parade, and one of the elders saw me and waved. Later that day was a pow-wow, featuring the BIGGEST fry bread I've ever seen, frying away in big iron kettles. Each was $1, and for 0.50 more, you could get a ladle full of stewed, fresh wild blueberries on it! During the pow-wow, the MC announced that the dancers would choose members of the audience for a "dancer's choice" dance. The elder man who'd seen me at the parade chose me! We danced, and we smiled, and he held my hands in his...it was a beautiful day with beautiful people, fry bread, and the memories of a lifetime.
Yá'át'ééh! How I miss Navajo Taco’s!! My parents lived in Showlow and I couldn’t leave until I had one! At one restaurant there was even some Wind Talkers there. Talk about history right before my eyes! 💞 One of my favorite places was also Monument Valley! I even met Susie Yazzie and watched her spin wool and she was working as she weaved. At one point she had me sit on the ground and she used a corn brush to brush out my hair and than but it in a traditional Navajo Bun with the wool she made from her very own hands. It was an experience of a life time. To be on such sacred ground and having such a beautiful woman share a tradition like that. My Great Great Grandmother was Cherokee. I felt like she was smiling down on me that day. Thank you for sharing your recipe! It brought back some beautiful memories! 💞
Patty, you put a huge smile on my face with your wonderful story. My husband and I have raised alpacas and llamas for 22 years, and I learned to spin their beautiful fiber into what people know as wool that they use for knitting and weaving. I am going to make this recipe for Fry Bread. When we lived in Idaho, one of my son’s teachers made fry bread for the class, and my son said it was delicious. I would love to share this recipe with him. Thank you so much for sharing.
When I lived in New Mexico I would stop at road side stands on the res and by their Navaho taco. Oh my my, what a treat. I could eat myself sick on them. My mouth is watering just thinking about them.
I'm South African of Asian origin. We make flat bread we call roti. Sometimes we put a filling of potato spiced and mashed. Rolled and put on the griddle. We also brush with butter while on the griddle. Yummy
Some friends and I tried 4 different recipes, this being one of them. This recipe was the best in our opinion, but the recipe was really improved by letting the dough sit for an hour and allowing the baking powder work its magic. The dough became way more fluffy and elastic (made it much easier to stretch out), and made it more chewy after frying (less crispy, so better for tacos). The other recipes we tried used extra ingredients, such as powdered milk, shortening, and yeast. The shortening one was pretty much unusable and came out like pie crust. Yeast worked well but was a fluffier, more bread like interior. Not sure that the powdered milk made much difference for the two recipes asking for it.
I live in New Mexico. All my life and my children’s life have loved and eaten fry bread often. My friends taught me how to make it but it’s never as good as there’s. Great job patting it!
I remember my uncle Gale Morningstar making this. I completely forgot about those memories of watching him make some for us while we (and the deer, Peggy and Sue, who always chilled out on his porch that had a big sliding door into the kitchen) ate some apples from his tree in the yard he sliced up for us. Good memories.
My mother taught me this when I was a kid. I love fry bread. I eat it with nice pot of beans. My daughter likes it with powered sugar. We also do this for tacos. It’s been a long time since I made it. I think it’s time.
I'll never forget when I was visiting family in new mexico and stopped at what I thought was a taco truck, they sold mutton sandwiches, frybread, a green chili with grilled lamb omg the best thing I ever had, I wanna make some fry bread! Thank you for the tutorial!
I'm Mexican and I'm a 76 year old grammy. I discovered the delicious flavor of Fry Bread at a country fair in St. Charles Illinois in the 70's but there they were calling it Elephant Ears because they were as huge as a 16 inch plate and they covered them with cinnamon sugar. I was HOOKED. But then something occurred to me. We also have a very popular Mexican dessert called bunuelos. It's the same recipe as your fried bread but when they are done, we stick the bread in a thick syrup made of our Mexican PILONCILLO, you can see what that looks like by looking for it on another youtube channel. This makes the fry bread very soft and very sweet and absolutely delicious with a white ATOLE made with corn masa that has NO SUGAR so it balances the very sweet BUNUELOS. It never occurred to us in Mexico, to turn that bread in to a taco. Our Mexican tacos are very different. But please also remember that Mexico had much more territory that went up thru California, Arizona, New Mexico and more. Santa Ana sold the territories of these states to America to pay all the soldiers that he took to invade the Alamo. SO it doesn't surprise me many Navajo foods are offshoots of Mexican recipes and if you add the Muslim influence from the Moors, we developed the use of 27 spices used in MOLE LIke cinnamon. but I still love fry bread and will make them like you do. I think you're really good in making them. Others use rolling pins, but your way is authentic. I love that.
I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and when I was a kid my grandmother made this bread all the time. Hers used to puff up quite a bit. She would cut in quarters and fry them and would slit an opening on the top and stuff with green chili and refried beans. They were the bomb.
I received a gift of Navajo fry bread mix from someone who bought it on the Rez, but never made it, so I found your recipe here. All I need to do is add water, mix, wait, then make the bread. You make it look easy! Enjoyed the video!
I tried one of those frybread mix, super salty and the texture was not nice and soft as it should be. I’m Navajo, that’s not how it’s supposed to be. Lol It was a gift from a casino near flagstaff, Az.
Come from a Cherokee family. But my grandma and her sisters would make this when they all got together at my great grandpa's house. We just dipped our bread in the chili. Or honey butter. Man I miss this!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
I just want to applaud the use of foil coverings in the kitchen. GOD BLESS YOU! 😂😂😂You are low key the smartest person for that!! All my life I have slaved cleaning the stove top, what was I thinking?!
I live in Utah. One of our favorite restaurants many years ago was called The Diné, after the Navaho peoples. The owner and chef would make Navaho burritos, fry bread filled with cooked and seasoned ground beef, the raw bread was then sealed around the edges like a hand pie, frieand served smothered with chili verde and cheese. Oh my goodness, it was so delicious!!
I grew up eating this as my mom cooked it whenever we had dried bean soups or potato and corned beef soup. She called it Irish Potato soup. We just use Self Rising flour and water. pat to the size of a biscuit and fry it. Her mom used to prepare the same when she was a child. Fried Bread is awesome.
That's exactly how my beautiful loving ❤ Grandmother used to make them the fun part I remember so clearly thank you perfect lesson teacher 😃 covering the stove with aluminum foil brings back memories also 😃 😊...
My family was blessed to have Navajo neighbors that taught us how to make fry bread. When we would struggle and wouldn’t have any money to buy some food we would make fry bread and add whatever we had in fridge. That for sure saved my family and I from starving. God bless The Navajo people💙
thanksgiving all over again XD i love your PFP btw
I learned from the Chippewa Cree but it’s been so long since I’ve made it I can’t remember what was used to make it
I had a similar experience
@@RalphReagan problem is I tried this one and no one liked it. I found the traditional version but it uses milk and I know for a fact the one I learned doesn’t use milk.. but it looks exactly like the one I learned and loved
Great story. Sounds like good neighbors.
As a Creek Indian, you just made my day. I can tell you something you can do, cook hamburger thick patties, dip them in the batter mixture then fry them. Its frybread hamburger pies.
Yum!!
Nice, that would be a great idea the next time I make Fried Bread.
Great idea. Thank you 😊
That sounds delicious
No one ever given me that idea before! I've had this since childhood and Indian fry bread hamburgers sounds like nearly the best possible thing I can make! I just wanted to say thank you for your comment cause that just made my day!! I know that all of my reading of comments on not just my posts but on others posts as well has a purpose!! Thanks again
Many years ago I was traveling the back roads in Arizona. I saw a small truck by the side of the road with a sign and an older woman and two beautiful young girls. The sign said Navaho Fry Bread so I stopped. As the woman fried it up the girls were talking in what I presume was Navajo. It was enchanting listening to them. It was like they were singing. I'll never forget that experience!
What a nice memory.. I don't know why, but it gave me chills... Maybe just because it was a heartwarming memory/moment
Nice memory Terry. I love driving through the southwest-- probably my favorite part of our country.
@@LunaWolf29 I'll always love my northern Michigan best but I've found the southwest is a close second.
@@terryboyer1342 Hey Terry! I live in Illinois, so I have made several trips to Michigan. The farthest north I have been is Charlevoix-- and yes-- it is a beautiful state. I also love northern Wisconsin. Wisconsin and Michigan are both very unsung states-- unless you live around hear and know their natural beauty. I think that's why I like New Mexico so much. You have the best of both worlds-- the beauty of the desert and the forest up in the Sandia mountains.
Sounds magical🙂
Many yrs ago my late Mother in law was making this patting out her dough with her small brown hands. Her family was extremely poor and extended back to the Oklahoma trail of tears. She didn't say much but on this day as she cooked her fried bread & a pot of beans she was smiling & humming. I asked why she was so happy this day & without ever looking up she said " because i have people that i love that I am sharing my meal with" ! And truly the bread was the best i have ever had. Those simple words in her small run down kitchen left an impression on me & taught me a valuable lesson.
Oh my heart! Bless her! 🙏😍
@@lulumoon6942 yes she kept her Indigenous nation close to her soul. After the death of my husband ( her only son) her & her husband were never the same. They both have passed. 😥
She knew of truth of a good life... It doesn't take much to be happy.
food and laughter unites all people!
food and laughter are the medicines for the soul it's universal.
My brother had a job in New Mexico and brought back the recipe for fry bread. So good! Later, I lived in Canada where the native people made "bannock", the same thing. Nothing better than a shore lunch of fresh-caught fish and bannock. Later, I lived in Greece and invited an Australian girl for lunch. "You made damper!", she exclaimed. That's what the aboriginal people of Australia call exactly the same thing. Fry bread around the world!
Nono, it is almost Hungarian langocz
I had a friend from Uruguay and they call it tortas fritas, fry bread in Spanish.
Fry bread is how you intend to cook it. We call it fried bread because thats how it was cooked. You dont call toast, toast bread. When its cooked its called toast!
I mean, it is pretty hard to screw up fried dough, no matter what country you come from.
@@gbwildlifeuk8269 Who is "we"? The people on the reservation near me call it fry bread.
The best Thanksgiving I ever had is when we were invited to stay on the Navajo rez. Good company, stories around the campfire, I was taught by the Navajo women how to make the fry bread on a rocket stove. Just was one of the best memories in my life. I make sure to tell others about the beauty and hospitality of the Navajo culture and its people ❤
Hey, I know you would like Che Jim's channel on UA-cam. He's Navajo. And his fry bread videos are hilarious.
The best fried bread I've ever had was at the flea market in Gallup, NM. There used to be this old red travel trailer set up there, you'd go in the door and there were two long tables. Everyone sat together and ate. I'd take my Grandfather sometimes and we'd have Navajo tacos and coffee. I have great memories of sitting with strangers and sharing a meal with them, and it helps me stay connected to my Grandfather who passed away many, many years ago.
I actually went to Gallup New Mexico one year to see the Indian Pow Wow. I also has fried bread and it was the best...
Lol know the one your speaking of I use to stop there to 😁
Lovely experience❣️
What do we become without those fond memories?
Been there and they were great. I miss real Navajo Tacos living up in Colorado. Also used to get them at the rest stop by Laguna btw Grants and Albuq
Farmington Flea always had great FB. I've had a lot of different fry bread, but Navajo was always the best. Fluffier, flakey. mmmmmmmm
I must say that the memories of eating fry breads from different cultures and backgrounds on the comments here have been an absolute delight! Very uplifting! Thank you!
I went on a camping trip with my family years ago and we happened upon two women at the camp grounds who were making fry bread in a great big iron kettle. It was truly one of the absolute best things I have ever eaten in my entire life. I was about 7 or 8 and I still remember it . I just loved those two ladies. They were so kind and so friendly. I’ve dreamed my whole life of learning to make that bread. Unforgettable.
That's beautifully stated.
Thanks for the new thing to try. Is it better with the powdered milk, and how much should be added.
Beautiful story
@@carlfurman4299 about 1/4 cup
So, have you made them yet?
I was born in New Mexico and I grew up on them, but I'm Hispanic and they are called Sopaipillas.
You can also cut them into squares before cooking them, and afterwards have a bowl of sugar and cinnamon ready to put them in.
Get them covered with the sugar and cinnamon and you're golden
My Irish grandmother used to make this occasionally and called it "fried dough". We ate it with butter and jam on it, with boston baked beans on the side. That was our dinner. We looked forward to it.
Fry dough, fry bread, empanadas, sopapillas, beignets all types of fry breads used for tacos or desserts. Love them all.♥️🎇❤️💕
They look delicious. I would eat that. But we have to keep going.
Maybe it is only my problem, but ever since my brother got killed in an accident at Scenic, Arizona, i don't trust these people.
Scenic is a place outside of Mesquite, nevada. Fuck them, what you see as you drive by on the interstate is all you are going to get.
You all can stop here and drop a few lawyers.
@@christienelson1437 your bitterness is yours and yours alone. They owe nothing to you
Kat k , she stated nothing with malice. Only kindness.
@@katk9484 Uh, I think you responded to the wrong message. I was talking about how I loved fry dough! ♥️🎇💕❤️❤️
Love this.
I am a South African.
We make something much the same.
Dough, made into balls.
We then fry the whole ball in oil.
We then cut the fried dough open, half way, and fill it with cooked ground beef, spicy, or how ever you enjoy ground beef, and what ever else you enjoy .
WHY not try it 😁🙄🤗
That's a yummy idea. I've made frybread and, what I call "fryballs" many times but never thought to make them big enough to stuff. I'm going to try it!!
Ernst van niekerk can you post a recipe?
This is an awesome idea. It might even work in an Air Fryer Oven (now I'm super hungry)
South Africa must be Conquered for the Anglo/American Empire!
Hi, use standard bread dough, with yeast That has risen.. Roll it out, and make about 15 balls of dough.
LET rest for about 10 min.
Warm oil on a stove to medium to hot, and add some balls of dough, cook to golden brown and turn around for the top part to also cook golden brown. Ou cooked rolls onto paper towel to drain oil. Cut opeen, CUT open, butnot through into 2 halves
Filling, from cheese and jam, to mince meat, as in shepherds pie. ENJOY
I have been making fry bread for years. My husband is Native American and needs his fry bread at least three times a week. We either have tacos or he uses it in place of bread. He will wrap a hot link with it or open it and stuff with beans and cheese. Whatever his heart desires.
❤
Add some brown sugar or cinnamon,
Sometimes i add fruit for a sweet treat.
other times I just Stuff with cooked meat & cheese always does the trick for me.
@@LG-xs7ud Flour, corn, potato, carbs are the blank canvas for the chefs of the world to paint on. The ingredient is simple, yet so many ways to prepare depending on the culture. I grew up with grits seasoned with salt, pepper, some butter, and cheese if we are feeling hedonistic. I've traveled a lot, learned new cooking techniques, then used what I learned to put my own spin on grits. I've since seasoned my grits with everything from Sichuan peppercorn to sumac. (The Sumac was pretty good, something I learned about from a Middle-Eastern buddy of mine.) I even once tried making Japanese curry, but swapped the rice for grits, worked pretty well. I love trying a new spin on something I am familiar with. This is a bit tangential I'll admit, but your comment reminded me of my own experiences. Cooking can really be an art, a way to share culture that anyone can appreciate. I've gone back to being a college student, I think I'll try my hand at fry bread since I got a lot of flour from a friend who graduated.
My sister in law made the best fried bread with a fried pork chop or mutton stew green chili yum. Blue bird flour is the best to use with the blue box of lard can't remember the name. OK made myself hungry
I went through some slim years and figured out if you use some flour, baking soda and maybe chili powder plus garlic, basil, and put water in, I fry it like a pancake.
Or drop spoonfuls in boiling water that has a little seasoning from a ramen packet, or a little spaghetti sauce and touch of bouillon in it, that's good.
If you're hungry, and use some whole wheat flour with regular or unbleached, that's filling and has good fiber.
The unbleached flour is hard to tell from regular all purpose flour and is same price. It does not raise your blood sugar nearly as much.
When my daughter was small we lived in New Mexico, I learned how to make fry bread from my Navajo sister in law. When groceries had to stretch we would have Navajo tacos a few times a week. Since I had home canned pinto beans and tomatoes. It cost almost nothing for a hearty meal. Thanks for reminding me how much I love fry bread.
Look so fun
would you post the recipe?
I. experienced Pinto beans when I was younger. If you've got the right cook. So many food pantries and Hospitals, and the food is so bland. I'm on a mission to change that !!!
Love fry bread.miss it do much.The Navaho language is like a beautiful Hymn.
I live in New Mexico... and we love our Fry Bread.
and Hatch Green Chile
Important rule I learned from my mom and the ladies is you have to be in a good mood or it won't turn out, great video thank you !!
True for all cooking or crafts, wise words 😊
@@marijoheitman2577 If you don't put love into the food, you don;t get any out of it.
Thank you! It's 12:09am and I cannot sleep..I got the covid blues...but fry bread cheered me up😊
That is true. I hate cooking.
Food is spiritual made tangible. This is one reason I don't eat what I call "angry food" :)
I had navajo fry bread ONCE, at a county fair when I was about 4 years old. I am 50 now, and to this day I have not forgotten how delicious it was.
So what most desserts are delicious. Still very bad for health reasons. Especially the obese.
@@alfonsoamador958 You must be fun at parties.
@GITMachine, ask him if he eats Navajo Tofu 😅
I am Oglala Sioux and I grew up eating frybread with wojopi or Indian tacos until I moved to Florida at the age of 11 and completely disconnected from my culture and I’m so excited to make this for my husband and my son who are Guatemalan 🩷 thank you for this recipe.
I truly appreciate and love how so many different cultures around the world have commented that they have similar types of fry bread! If only we all allowed more sharing of knowledge! Blessings to all who positively shared! You show what humanity should be able to do!
I Have learned about cultures through food. It's amazing. Every culture has a form of fried or flat bread. Every culture has a form of yellow rice. I found this to be amazing!
Magnificent gratitude 4 Ur truth sharing, I agree food with LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY ❣️❣️❣️
Jerry, we do allow sharing. Nobody is stopping anyone from sharing. That's what the internet is for!
Breads, rolls, potatoes ,rice.....all people eat some sort of starch food.
@@maryfalco9368 The human body doesn't need it. We evolved eating animals, nuts, berries, and raw plants. Wheat, pasta, bread and processed starches came much later in our evolution. We are putting processed starches into stoneage bodies. This is what causes weight gain and diseases like diabetes along with processed sugars.
During my summers of high school, I worked with my cousins at Ft. Defiance, Arizona on the Navajo Reservation, teaching VBS. We went from house to house, and hogon to hogon, inviting the Navajo children to VBS. I remember my first year, we were invited inside an old Navajo woman's hogon to ask permission for her grandkids to attend VBS. She didn't (or wouldn't) speak English. Her grade school grandson translated for us. She was sitting in the middle of the dirt floor making fry bread. She cooked on a fire bed. I was amazed and inspired by her generosity and her values in keeping the old ways alive. She looked to be around 80+ years old. Wearing multiple layers of clothing over a long thick skirt, with a pipe next to her. Outside the hogon was a blanket being weaved, draped on rods of spool woven multi-colored thread. Nothing but the hogon and several miles of dusty hillsides and hard land for her homestead. She poked a hole in the fry bread before laying it in the sizzling pan. This was to allow the spirits to pass thru. Her voice quivered as she spoke a beautiful language. She bore the years of a long hard life. Yet I felt such peace in her presence. She was happy. She was tired. She was spiritual. She offered us some fry bread as a gift of thanks. I cherish my memoirs.
In case no one's told you... you're a writer. It's very clear.
I can relate to this eighty-year-old Navajo grandmother. I'm 77 now and this year I decided to go back to long dresses or skirts layered this winter. I roll my own tobacco in cigarette papers but I do have a catalog that I buy my tobacco from and they have lots of pipes. In the past when I ran out of cigarette paper, I cut up notebook paper and it works just fine. You just have to use slobber all along the way to make it stick. I live a simple life and I am happy. I don't have the energy I used to have but then I was never one to want to run marathons. My face is weathered by the Southern California sunshine. I have an ancestor that probably walk the Trail of Tears and had their share of fry bread along the way. I think I've always been a little hard of hearing due to spending my first two months in an incubator. Learning to speak a second language later in life would be very difficult for me and frustrating for anyone trying to teach me. I tried both German and Spanish but had to give up. Unlike her I never had children, but if I did I would likewise try to pass on the old ways.
Ingredients:
3 c flour
1Tsp salt
2tsp baking powder
Water appropriately 1 cup warm water
Mix until fully incorporated add flour slowly until stickiness goes away
Cover Let rise 20-30mins
Divide dough into large egg size portions
Parchment paper is best alternative can be floured wax paper
Grease simmering during preparation in a frying pan
Stretch out dough like a tortilla or small pizza by hand making it thin- fry until golden brown on both sides- drain
Add desired toppings (chili beans, cheese,lettuce, tomatoes (sour cream) )
Say Grace in Jesus’s mighty name and enjoy!
Makes 8 servings
Amen Jen Jen
Ruby Lee you’re welcome!
Thank you for the recipe & instructions. With Covid19 going around and being unable to find bread, i truly appreciate this share.
Flower Power I agree and bread is WAY better when it’s homemade!! God bless you!
Thank you for writing down the recipe
Me and my Dad had Navajo tacos at a little truck stop in Tuba City, AZ. We were on a motorcycle trip on the way back from Sturgis SD one year. It’s one of the best meals I’ve had on the road. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
It's very good to see people all over the world to share their food cultures
You're absolutely right! Now I gotta find a recipe for Focaccia bread!
❤. yes. now can you share some flour?
@@grandmalovesmebest // Why.. are u out/running short on your supply?
This was not part of the Navajo culture until yt men stole their land and left them to starve
@@LAVIN20 yes this maybe true but it has happened in every culture in the world the strong preying on the weakto be honest i dobt think it will ever stop humans are a greedy race not like animal s which only eat what they need dont you agree
When I was in third grade, we were studying Native Americans and out teacher did a demonstration in class of how to make fry bread and I still remember how good it was. She fried the dough right in class and we all got a piece. This looks very much how I remember it, thanks.
This food was invented out of need when the USA government kicked the out of their land and left them to starve
We did this too!
@@mycreativeheart4159Me too!
Oh wow my school did this too!
My wife had dreamed of visiting the Grand Canyon for almost 50 years and so finally we went, for Thanksgiving, and her daughter and son in law who live on the W. coast met us there. Our first day in Arizona we were told in Holbrook not to just blow through town and miss the Navajo Taco at Mr. Maesta's cafe and it was fantastic! Then on the drive back to New Orleans from the Grand Canyon (and painted desert and petrified forest and all the other mandatory tourist stuff) we passed through Holbrook again and had another go at the Navajo Taco and resolved to look for a recipe on youtube to make fry bread and make it correctly, not just a deep fried flour tortilla. Well, I forgot all about it and your vid popped up in my youtube feed. So thanks for making the video! We will be making some, probably tomorrow or the next day. And of course topping them with beans, ground beef, cheese, and red chile. It's gonna be awesome.
Thanks 😊 thanks thanks
Sounds like a truly excellent family event. Much better than gathering around & stuffing ourselves with a Traditional Thanksgiving meal.👍
Mr maestro Cafe is the bomb
We went to the Grand Canyon years ago in the 1990’s n there was a restaurant down in the Canyon with an old motel near it, we got these fajitas and we’ve never tasted any better n it was still sizzling and not soggy when it came to the table. Everything tasted great! We didn’t get the tacos. Bummer.
Thanks for sharing that.
My family just came back from the Grand Canyon, and rode the Polar Express, WONDERFUL time was had by all!
I'd recommend it to everyone!
I'm Mexican and grew up with a version of these that were called Bunuelos. My mother used to serve "Soupy" beans with them.
I’m a Southerner, from Alabama. We of course love our “soup beans” and cornbread. Isn’t it nice knowing how similarly people live, even separated by miles and nationalities. Such simple foods kept us alive in hard times, and still nourish us today. 😊
The Paiutes also make a similar version. Love our Indian Tacos!
I am from Belize and we call them fry jack
Always had beans with fried bread ourselves,still do.
Me too. We do have indigenous roots.
I'm multiple native American and German. So I know a few ways to make this! It's always good.. we ate ours with cinnamon and sugar. Or just butter n salt. Just like a pancake, the edges get done its time to flip!
Mom never made cute circles. She just stretched the bejesus out if it, tossed it on the stove. We actually had a cast iron cook stove. Had to get wood before you cooked anything. I was about 13 when we moved from the farm, got a real stove and a real bathroom.
Cinnamon and sugar is my favorite way to have bannock 🥰
Me thinks a real stove is still the wood stove. You were blessed to grow up in that environment.
It's butter and sugar, I don't think you'd want butter and salt! 😆
lol 🙂
Yeah but my fry bread is still the best.😀
My daddy was Cherokee/Blackfoot
I was raised on this bread
He is deceased many years now and left no recipe..
I’m so grateful to have found you making this.. 😋
I will be making some later this evening..
Thank You so much 😊
I went to college in the southwest. I have fond memories of stopping at roadside stands when driving through the Navajo reservation with my best friend and buying Indian tacos for lunch. We'd sit at the picnic tables and just devour them before hopping back on our motorcycles and heading off again. The Navajo people were so kind and welcoming. I should try to make these myself one of these days. Thank you for the demonstration, Rhonda!
Our natives smoked meth and drove through our town drunk
Its easy, i do it alot and its great, you can also rop them with what ever ya want
@@HeidiAndScots just like white, black and yellow, good or bad every where, but not all
@@henrybittle5234 three people I worked with got DWIs and so much meth. Very sad.
Had delish fry bread at a festival at the plaza in Santa Fe. It was so delicious.
Having lived in southeast Arizona several years, we often had Apache frybread. We traveled north through to Canyon duche, Chinle to Four corners. Sometimes up to Showlow. Get Navajo fry bread wherever we could find it. My wife made it but while stretching it dropped hers. OOPS, good laughs her and the ladies prepping for gatherings. Nothing like frybread and blade steak. Shake powder sugar on a piece, better than cake for dessert. Thank you for sharing a tradition that needs shared and kept alive.
In India we have our own Indian fry bread. It's called luchi (pron: loo-chee). It's amazing how similar it is. I wish you peace and wellness.
Thankfully, many cultures have some wonderful type of fried bread. I’ve had beignets, sopapillas and Navajo fry bread. Thanks for sharing information about yours.
Is you luchi flour based also?
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@@themermaidstale5008 yea my grandma makes the best sopapilas but there all delicious with honey 🤤
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I am Hungarian but we call this "lángos". Although over there it is eaten with garlic and salt, cheese and sour creme, cheese and ham and sour creme, sometimes with shredded sauteed cabbage with black pepper and salt sealed inside the dough and fried.
Look up "langos" or "lángos" in correct spelling. Amazing how so different people have so similar recipes! Although they tend to use yeast for leavening agent rather than baking powder.
Congratulations to the video! I'll be definitely trying this. Looks and sounds delicious! Lángos is a very common and fairly cheap street side fast food, commonly available in Hungary.
krisalaska oooo yours sounds awesome, my mouth was watering!
That sounds soooooooo good!
OMG I had Langos at Lake Balaton ,it was the best thing apart from the BBQ which was basically the best smokey bacon fat heldover a flame dripped onto a yummy bread chunk and the topped with chunks of the freshest crispest capsicum....I love Hungary so much I am from New Zealand and long to go back......
Oh man that sounds tasty!
I LOVE langos. I learned how to make them last year. SO GOOD.
I do a lot of canning and I absolutely LOVE the idea of covering the stove with foil! Easy cleanup. Love fry bread!
I saw that and it reminded me of my mom. She did the same exact thing when she was frying things.
100th like! I saw that too, what a great idea! My stove is a complete mess, the only way I could clean it would be to sandblast it! 😅. I just don’t care anymore cuz it’s such a cheap stove, if there’s anything in the oven, you can’t touch any part of it without hot pads. Anyway, fry bread looks great! Thank you!
I'm from PA. I did a mission trip Near Gallap, NM 35 years ago in 1989. I think we ate this every night. I miss it very much. Thank you!
I added some olive oil to the dough and some rosemary, used olive oil to barely cover pan bottom. Put my stretched dough in, covered, checked when bottom brown, flipped over to brown other side while adding my pizza sauce, mozzarella, already sauted mushrooms to the top w parsely, yum, awesome crispy pizza!
@Sunshine 🌠 Sunshine 🌠 sounds like they used the stovetop. I imagine covering the pan with the lid would build up some steam to cook the top. Plus when flipped, the residual heat will help melt the cheese. Just make sure to cook/saute the toppings since it's not heating the top like a typical pizza.
@Sunshine 🌠 Sunshine 🌠 no prob! Prob should've included: if you're using the amount of oil in the video, be careful about covering it with a lid. The steam causes water droplets to hit the oil, which can get...dicey lol. I toe a fine line everytime I pan-fry dumplings. If you're just using a bit of olive oil, like just enough to coat a bit of the pan, it should be fine.
Man thank you I am so glad I ran onto you because my grandmother used to make fried bread when I was a little girl and I have been craving that for the past 45 years and it's a true blessing that I found you so now I know the how to make what she used to make for me you are a blessing
My 1st experience with this was by or from,a native Navajo friend in Alabama. It was great!!!
I am so glad this popped up in my feed. My grandmother was part Cherokee and could pop out lots of fry bread on saturdays...with a little honey for treat. Haven't had it since she passed 30 years ago!
I remember a neighbor making this when I was a teen. Her husband was a native Indian living in Alabama. I don’t know what tribe he was from. His wife made this everyday with other stuff and man it was delicious. I thought it was fried cornbread being in Alabama but I am realizing it was this fried bread! Awesome. My daddy is from New Mexico and lived on an Indian reservation but he never talks about his youth or Vietnam as a soldier other than being really poor.
Some of my best memories are of visiting my best friend's house as a kid and her mom teaching me how to make frybread. I don't make it very often but when I do I always have great memories of their warm inviting home and the traditions they shared with me. Thanks for the early morning dose of nostalgia. I think I need some frybread now. ❤️
I’m Bosnian and we make this as well. We call it “lepina “ . My favorite on sundays
My husband and I ate at a Bosnian restaurant in Houston and the bread was my favorite thing. It tasted just like a bread my mom made when I was growing up, but she can no longer remember.
I'm so pleased to know this is the same.
Wow! I love fry bread. My grandmother made fry bread for breakfast when I spent summers with her. Fry bread was used as a substitute for pancakes, and bacon and eggs on the side. In my opinion, fry bread taste better than pancakes.
I’m not Native American but i grew up with something similar that was passed down through my grandparents which was frying up our yeasted bread dough just like you did with your Navaho frybread. We’d flatten yeast bread dough and fry it until golden brown and cooked in the middle then spread butter and sprinkle sugar on the hot fried bread. It’s a treat I love to make once i. A while but I’ve not yet tried this recipe. I’ve had frybread made in LaConner Washington by the local Swinomish tribe there and it was wonderful.
@watrgrl2: La Conner is the cutest area. :)...Your comment reminded me of the one above, by @derrydownbeat, talking about the different fry bread around the world. 😊
@@rizpahjael1 i used to live about 30 min south of LaConner so I often went shopping there.
Hi 👋🏻 I live in Burlington WA 😁❤️ I think I'mma gonna make some right now 😀
This is too cool! Just a few years ago, when I was 20, I got laid off for several months from a minimum wage job...$3.35/hour. Okay more than a few years ago, it was 38 years ago. I was pretty destitute, just had a bag of flour and some potatoes. I hunted for meat every day, squirrels, rabbits, and grouse. I came across a recipe in a Mazola corn oil cookbook for "fry bread". That recipe got used so many times over the next few months before going back to work. I plan on making this for my grandkids since running past this video. Thanks!
What a great story of tenacity and survival. Thanks for sharing.
NO, it' wasn't just a few years ago. The US Federal Minimum Wage has been $7.26 since 2009. THAT'S 14 YEARS. It hasn't been $3.35 since 1990. That's 32 YEARS. If you have "GRANDKIDS" then also, NO, you weren't 20 "just a few years ago".
@@huitrecouture are you kidding? You probably missed parts of what wrote. Pretty sure my comment said "38 years ago".
@huitrecouture I don't suppose you understood the humor.....if you did, you surely would have understood the mention of a few years ago as older people humor. I was 20 just a few years ago too😂 (I'm 65)
Love your humour 😊 - hope you and yours are in a good place. Enjoy baking together ✌
I lived on the rez for a few years when I was very young, and I loved fry bread. It's been a long time, and I had no idea it was this easy to make. Going to have to try it myself!
Your first time may or may not be great, but don't give up, it is worth learning how to make them. I add a little blue corn meal to mine.
You fuckenm tradrber
Pillsbury crescent rolls are a great substitute!!
This makes me travel back to playing in the Pawnee dirt while my grandmother and the other War Mothers filled the air with the smell of hundreds of fry bread in preparation of the 4th of July Powwow.
What a lovely memory. Thank you
Wow! Awesome, this Alaskan Eskimo wants to play in dirt and smell fry bread, that'd be cool!
Love the bowl,excellent for raising dough🙂
This is my most favorite bread in the world! Nothing compares. Thank you for sharing!
When I was a kid, we were on a monthly budget (my father only got paid once a month). I remember my mom making fried bread adding cheese and folding it over to make an empanada de queso towards the end of the month when we were down to the last week or so. I'm Puerto Rican and I loved it!
If you seasoned the flour with sazon, and pepper, etc. Made the batter more to a liquid, add bacalao (soaked in water and drained salted cod to take the salt out) and fried it, that is a bacalaito!
Funny how cultures around the world (and even within our own countries) are sooooo similar. Thank you for showing us your recepie.
It's amazing to me what parents do to MAKE-DO. Making the money stretch for an entire month is not easy, but creative people always find a way. God bless your parents for raising you in such a creative way. And you had FUN. Many more live in poverty and despise it and become thieves. But your parents taught you better.
I did not know that we were poor growing up. Mom was a magician at times.
That’s amazing 🙂
Can you use other kinds of flour
@@maureenlewis7534 I'm gonna try. I have coconut.
You handle that dough like a pro, I can tell you've made a few of these before. Thank you!
My daughter-in-law is Navajo and I've had Navajo fry bread many times at get-togethers especially. She, her husband (my son) and their son live in Colorado so I don't see them often. When I'm there though I'm treated to Navajo cooking and it's all been delicious. Thank you for making this video. Her mother showed me how to make it but I didn't write it down so this is awesome.
My mother is Seneca & Nanticoke. I remember my grandmother making fry bread with us when I was little but sometimes she would have us make a hole in the middle with our thumb for our wishes to pass thru. She'd sprinkle cinnamon sugar on them or drizzle honey in them.
My mother never did any traditional cooking so all I ever learned was my gran's fry bread.
Smiling, I think your Grandmother telling you making the hole for wishes made it fun for you. What a sweet memory!
My grandfather was half Cherokee. He taught me nothing of our heritage. I feel cheated. I'm 63 and still trying to learn.
@@Lady_Mstikal the memories may have been too painful for him to share...
We Cherokees poke a hole also.
@@khrystalkhoury62 Osh da!
I have been cooking professionally for over 20 years and I must say you have excellent technique! It was a joy watching you 😃
I am Italian and we make these and called them fried dough pizza, we top with tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese. You really can top them with whatever your imagination comes up with. I'm so hungry now...!
I am Metis and my hubby is Italian and he loves them. His sister-in- law makes them the way you do.
Just like pizza fritte. Top with powdered sugar and/or cinnamon for a desert too!
I’m hungry now too! 😊
Exactly. Fry Bread is NOT an ethnic food.
I’m from NM and when we’d go fishing there were little stands on the side of the road where these tacos were being made. I loved it. No one makes red chile the Native Americans. Soooo good.
This video inspired me to give it a try. I made them a little too thin, but overall these were fantastic! For anyone reading this, fresh honeybutter is easy to make and tastes amazing on fresh fry bread,
We eat it different ways. Cinnamon & sugar, honey, butter, wojapi (kind of like fruit preserves or berry sauce) So good lol
Recipe for honey butter please
First time I ever had it, it had cranberry salsa on it. WOW! Later had an Apache friend who taught me lots of Indian and Mexican foods like this. I still can see him eating serrano peppers like candy bars. RIP, my friend.
Apaches are practically Mexicans
Many Northern Mexicans have comenche Yaqui pueblo Shoshone
Ancestry.
yum. had my first indian taco at a little cafe outside Badlands NP in South Dakota after visiting the park with my mom. That was 40 years ago and i remember that meal clearly today. It was absolutely delicious, and the cook came out and watched us eat and didn't want to charge us for it when he saw how much we enjoyed his food. It was much more than a meal it was nourishment for the soul.
Some of the best food I've eaten was during the powwow in kayenta. The Navajo are great cooks! The fry bread is excellent, Navajo tacos and tamales were so good. The people didn't care for a white guy living there, until they got to know me. Then they warmed up and accepted me into the people. Awesome people there!
I'm from the Caribbean and every single adult had this for breakfast as a kid at some time in their life...It was a staple along with fried fish and cocoa tea made from 100% ground cocoa beans.
The exact, same recipe...Some called it "fried bake" some called it "floaters" or other names, depending on which part of the Caribbean you were from.
I was about to say the same thing. I was like "not bakes what dey?" 🤣🤣 I'm Grenadian btw.
I'm from the Caribbean myself they remind me of Johnny cakes I'm Puerto Rican by the way
I’m Caribbean too (Jamaican) and this is almost the same as fried dumplin (Johnny cakes) and eaten with Jamaica’s national dish: Ackee and salt fish. Lovely execution on the bread. So much like my mom’s technique.
Fried bake is what we called it....being from Trinidad. Now living in Canada and to this day, we still eat this for breakfast on Sunday morning.
We call them "bakes" or Johnny cakes :D
My grandmother used to make this when we were kids. We just called it fried bread. But she was Cherokee. We never thought much of it. It was just who she was.🥰
How many Ruby Wingos can there be? Did you ever work at Harris Calorific?
Cherokee. Some believe one of the 10 lost tribe's of Israel.that may have migrated here long ago. A recipe that was more than likely brought with them. Never had this. Is it similar to flat bread ? Something I love so I'm sure I would like this.
It's basic fry bread. A recipe that's practically instinctive for the Native Peoples. Unleavened bread of the Bible, has no yeast and stays fresh for a couple days before bleah. I thought everyone knew it. I discovered I was wrong when I moved to a city in Texas, where NOBODY EVER had heard of it or eaten it... except for the Hispanic community, where it's almost as much a staple as tacos (flour tortillas wrapped around pretty much anything that will fit and taste decent).
what kind of oil
@@Bitterstone3849 I'm part Cherokee and remain open to these ideas, but it seems like the tribe originated as a segment of the Iroquois that split off about 4,000 years ago.
My precious daughter in law, is a Native American. She is Lakota Sioux. And she shared with me how to make their bread. It's amazing. I call it fried biscuits! You can put just about anything on it. Or in it. It's really good!!!
This is awesome ! In India we tend to eat different kinds of flat bread (roti, naan, kulcha, puri, batura, paratha, stuffed-paratha, etc). This recipe looks closest to a 'Batura'. They are so yummy. Chole (garbanzo) bature looks close to the preparation presented here, although the red kidney beans are closer to the Indian 'Rajma'. Thanks for showing the details to prepare the Navajo fried bread.
And yours taste great too!!
It reminds me of puri😋
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I just watch a video on Roti. It's literally the same thing minus baking powder, and not fried. This is definitely going in the cook book. It's so simple
@@osirisasar2392 Also, Roti is made from whole wheat flour, and not refined flours. It is the more traditional version that large section of people from northern regions of India ate for ages. Roti has two version, one which is made in a 'tandoor' oven, the tandoori roti (this version is usually not made at home, but more in restaurants) and another which is made at home with normal wood or gas stoves (versions are called 'phulka', chapati, etc). There are also non-wheat based 'roti' that are also common in India. For example, 'roti's made from sorghum, millets, etc, (often called 'bhakri' in central India), are also very nice and often more nutritious than wheat based 'roti'.
I was taught by a Navao lady that the bread HAD to have a hole in it because only God can make something perfect. Good video ,thank you.
Never heard that...that's great 😊
Janice Williams Death is an integral part to the beauty of life.
Powwows at Whitebeads we cooked fry bread in a cauldron on an open fire and no holes needed!
@@janicewilliams2194 only the body dies
spirit hole
My fondest memory of my dad was his plate sized fried bread,,, so good, and hot peppers. I'm thankful that he taught me when I was young. In turn I've taught my sons, whom now make it like dad.
This is an amazing treat, when you don't have much food in the house, a few simple ingredients and it's just so good! For the kids, I like to brush it with melted butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar 😋
Mmm pow wow’s here in oregon you can get them as tacos, or slathered in butter w honey and cinnamon, or jelly 😍😋 amazing treat
Good idea !!
Us Mexicans call those buñuelos, I had never seen how to make them till now that my son sent me the recipe, he went to the university in New Mexico and just loved them.
Try dry herbs and a bit of salt dusted over the fry bread right when it comes out of the oil. It's great with lunch or dinner and the whole family loves it.
Nice to see other Native cultures make Fried bread. We Alaskans have been making this for what seems like forever. Ours is made using full bread dough, and we eat it with butter, honey, and/or karo-syrup. Has always been one of my favorite treats over the past 55 years. Happy to see we all keep up with our traditions, no matter what Nation we come from. Thank you for sharing!
I’m from East Indian heritage and it’s the same way I use my hand to enlarge each roti… never need to use a rolling pin. I felt really connected to your style and heritage Rhonda😊. Thanks for sharing!
My grandmother was Navajo. She made this all the time. Best bread I ever had.
I'm a Brit and fond of learning about Native traditions.
What flour is used and any tips on making it? Thanks a lot
@@carolynellis387 all purpose works just as well as any.
@@reneearcher9531 That's great thank you!
Being from Southern California I've known and worked with a lot of Navajo. I've had fry bread from my friend's wives and an old girlfriend, but never more than general instructions on how to make it. Since the ingredients are so simple the technique is everything. Thanks for showing how to do it. I'll never be as good as a Navajo but I think I can make an acceptable substitute thanks to you!
Thanks for sharing this delicious part of your culture with us. I love fry bread.
The best meal I ever had was this after a 9-mile round trip hike of the Grand Canyon. Never so hungry, never so happy a tummy! I also got some while driving through Navajo Country on the same trip but with topped with just honey. Sooooo gooooood! Thank you for sharing your family recipe.
My family has been eating Navajo Tacos since I was a kid.
They are so delicious, and such a great comfort food.
What goes into a Navajo taco other than the bread? That sounds interesting.
They have Navajo tacos in Salt Lake City. We visit a place there every time we go to visit my sister in law. Wonderful
@Overlords Control , Much better than life has treated you. I’m sorry you’re so empty you post negative comments on UA-cam.
@@TamshawCavaliere, chile beans, lettuce, tomato, onions, cheese… you can really put anything you like to put on tacos.
@@richardpena7153 He is right though. Full of flour, salt, and cooking oil. The very worst combination. Top them sugar, butter and jam like some people are doing, and you've probably got the most terrible food in the world. Seriously, I wouldn't eat these more than once a month!
I’m so happy to see this recipe! I had this in Arizona as a young teen. There is nothing like good Navajo fry bread, and I haven’t had any of this since 1978!!!!! I have thought about it for a lifetime, but nothing came close. Thank you!! Im going to make it today!
very cool. Huge respect to the Native Americans from UK.
I was introduced to fry bread when I lived in Colorado. I think Navajo tacos are one of the best things to eat. The seasoning in the meat/beans, is different than Mexican tacos, and it is delicious. Of course, I still eat tacos from everywhere else. They truly are a great meal with everything in one bite!!
I love watching your hands as you roll and stretch the dough. It's obvious that you've done this forever!
she has total confidence and skillful ease! I always assume that I will too on the first try. LOL. Will post what really happens.
Seeing people from all over the world commenting that they make a similar thing at home reminded me of an argument I witnessed years ago. A Chinese fellow was saying that Marco Polo stole Pizza from the Chinese, who called it "Pinza". After a short argument my mother in law said, "Baloney, nobody invented pizza. For as long as there has been any kind of bread made from any kind of flour there's been cooks that flatten a piece of dough, put some stuff on it, and throw it in the oven!" LOL! She shut everybody up.
Pretty amazing how people need to "denounce cultural appropriation" nowaday everytime someone does something ^^"
You mother in law is right and she seems to be a fun personn to talk to :D
whats quesadilla? tortilla with cheese, meat, and vegetables.
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My grandfather called it pinza; we never knew where he got it from though. (Asking him while he was alive would have been like questioning his authority!)
@Free HongKong Yes, because wheat came from the Middle East by way of Europe. But indigenous Americans did develop the secret to nixtamalization of maize, which is an amazing process and renders the maize much more nutritious and delicious for use in baking and other types of preparations. It's unfortunate that when colonisers carried maize to other parts of the world, they did not share this process, whether through ignorance or indifference.
+David Allison poor people that do not understand the difference between a "flatten piece of dough, put some stuff on it, and throw it in the oven" and Pizza... that's why china will never produce anything good... the closer ppl get to God, greater is the spirit and sensitivity for quality... Europe did not flourish because of the weather, but after they became Catholic, then they've gotten the gift of intelligence, from there universities, art, engineering, etc etc reached its top... to prepare a really tasty and great pizza requires knowledge and practice... it is not just a flat dough... pathetic. It is same as saying oh the pieta de Michel Angelo Buonarotti is s piece of stone... really sad that your mother lived a life of ignorance and was transferred to you since you celebrate that! hope you will find light in your spirit soon... appreciate art... develop sensitivity for beauty... only then you will enjoy life, including food.
The first time I tried fry bread was at the solstice celebration in my city. It was fry bread with peameal bacon sandwiches. I was in heaven. I wanted to marry the sandwich. I will try this at home. Thank you!
I’m from the Cherokee Nation, and I think that dish looks 👀 so delicious 😋-Ymm -Ymm !!
Same here
Growing up in AZ we had Navajo fry bread a lot. It was always my favorite thing to eat. We had it with refried beans instead of chili beans and for a treat we would have it drizzled with honey and powdered sugar. I'm not sure which one i love best. Thank you for sharing this with us.
My favorite was at park and swap in Phoenix with refried beans, cheese and maybe some onions and salsa...AWESOME!💜
Back again a year later to tell you how easy and delicious this fry bread is. Thank you !
Hi how are you doing?
I once went to the Lac du Flambeau area of Wisconsin, in July, and there was a small-town 4th of July parade. The Ojibwa of that area danced in the parade, and one of the elders saw me and waved. Later that day was a pow-wow, featuring the BIGGEST fry bread I've ever seen, frying away in big iron kettles. Each was $1, and for 0.50 more, you could get a ladle full of stewed, fresh wild blueberries on it!
During the pow-wow, the MC announced that the dancers would choose members of the audience for a "dancer's choice" dance. The elder man who'd seen me at the parade chose me! We danced, and we smiled, and he held my hands in his...it was a beautiful day with beautiful people, fry bread, and the memories of a lifetime.
Oh man that sounds delectable
Yá'át'ééh! How I miss Navajo Taco’s!! My parents lived in Showlow and I couldn’t leave until I had one! At one restaurant there was even some Wind Talkers there. Talk about history right before my eyes! 💞 One of my favorite places was also Monument Valley! I even met Susie Yazzie and watched her spin wool and she was working as she weaved. At one point she had me sit on the ground and she used a corn brush to brush out my hair and than but it in a traditional Navajo Bun with the wool she made from her very own hands. It was an experience of a life time. To be on such sacred ground and having such a beautiful woman share a tradition like that. My Great Great Grandmother was Cherokee. I felt like she was smiling down on me that day. Thank you for sharing your recipe! It brought back some beautiful memories! 💞
Patty, you put a huge smile on my face with your wonderful story. My husband and I have raised alpacas and llamas for 22 years, and I learned to spin their beautiful fiber into what people know as wool that they use for knitting and weaving. I am going to make this recipe for Fry Bread. When we lived in Idaho, one of my son’s teachers made fry bread for the class, and my son said it was delicious. I would love to share this recipe with him. Thank you so much for sharing.
When I lived in New Mexico I would stop at road side stands on the res and by their Navaho taco. Oh my my, what a treat. I could eat myself sick on them. My mouth is watering just thinking about them.
I'm South African of Asian origin. We make flat bread we call roti.
Sometimes we put a filling of potato spiced and mashed. Rolled and put on the griddle. We also brush with butter while on the griddle. Yummy
This makes me think of puri because she is frying it. Miss good Indian food so much!
@@ScoutMum More like 'batura'. Puri's are usually made smaller in size and with whole wheat flour, isn't it? All variations are yummy !
Some friends and I tried 4 different recipes, this being one of them. This recipe was the best in our opinion, but the recipe was really improved by letting the dough sit for an hour and allowing the baking powder work its magic. The dough became way more fluffy and elastic (made it much easier to stretch out), and made it more chewy after frying (less crispy, so better for tacos). The other recipes we tried used extra ingredients, such as powdered milk, shortening, and yeast. The shortening one was pretty much unusable and came out like pie crust. Yeast worked well but was a fluffier, more bread like interior. Not sure that the powdered milk made much difference for the two recipes asking for it.
TY! Read some other replies that had mentioned the measurements! X
I live in New Mexico. All my life and my children’s life have loved and eaten fry bread often. My friends taught me how to make it but it’s never as good as there’s. Great job patting it!
I think it's the love we have in our hearts, that what makes the frybread soooo good! COOKED WITH LOVE
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I learned about fry bread from my Choctaw relatives in Oklahoma. I love it for dinner and desert!
sea green I too have Choctaw in my bloodline
I learned about it from my mom. She was also choctaw from oklahoma and we live in NM so it is easy to get it often here but homemade is best.
I remember my uncle Gale Morningstar making this. I completely forgot about those memories of watching him make some for us while we (and the deer, Peggy and Sue, who always chilled out on his porch that had a big sliding door into the kitchen) ate some apples from his tree in the yard he sliced up for us. Good memories.
Rhonda looks good I will try it, thank you.
My mother taught me this when I was a kid. I love fry bread. I eat it with nice pot of beans. My daughter likes it with powered sugar. We also do this for tacos. It’s been a long time since I made it. I think it’s time.
I'll never forget when I was visiting family in new mexico and stopped at what I thought was a taco truck, they sold mutton sandwiches, frybread, a green chili with grilled lamb omg the best thing I ever had, I wanna make some fry bread! Thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you!!! Eaten Navajo bread in...Arizona. Was a simple yet grateful treat!!!
I'm Mexican and I'm a 76 year old grammy. I discovered the delicious flavor of Fry Bread at a country fair in St. Charles Illinois in the 70's but there they were calling it Elephant Ears because they were as huge as a 16 inch plate and they covered them with cinnamon sugar. I was HOOKED. But then something occurred to me. We also have a very popular Mexican dessert called bunuelos. It's the same recipe as your fried bread but when they are done, we stick the bread in a thick syrup made of our Mexican PILONCILLO, you can see what that looks like by looking for it on another youtube channel. This makes the fry bread very soft and very sweet and absolutely delicious with a white ATOLE made with corn masa that has NO SUGAR so it balances the very sweet BUNUELOS. It never occurred to us in Mexico, to turn that bread in to a taco. Our Mexican tacos are very different. But please also remember that Mexico had much more territory that went up thru California, Arizona, New Mexico and more. Santa Ana sold the territories of these states to America to pay all the soldiers that he took to invade the Alamo. SO it doesn't surprise me many Navajo foods are offshoots of Mexican recipes and if you add the Muslim influence from the Moors, we developed the use of 27 spices used in MOLE LIke cinnamon. but I still love fry bread and will make them like you do. I think you're really good in making them. Others use rolling pins, but your way is authentic. I love that.
❤ Elephant Ears !! In Arizona is where I became addicted to them lol
I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and when I was a kid my grandmother made this bread all the time. Hers used to puff up quite a bit. She would cut in quarters and fry them and would slit an opening on the top and stuff with green chili and refried beans. They were the bomb.
I'm moving back to Albuquerque NM in a few weeks... I love Fry Bread...
Hi, I’m from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿.
We do the same bread 🙂, it calls Baursak.
Thanks for the video.
Aliya Azhmagambetova Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 ☝🏾❤️
Thank you 🙂🤝
I received a gift of Navajo fry bread mix from someone who bought it on the Rez, but never made it, so I found your recipe here. All I need to do is add water, mix, wait, then make the bread. You make it look easy! Enjoyed the video!
I tried one of those frybread mix, super salty and the texture was not nice and soft as it should be. I’m Navajo, that’s not how it’s supposed to be. Lol It was a gift from a casino near flagstaff, Az.
The tribes in Arizona have a wonderful fry bread.
Pretty sure the Navajo are in AZ...
New Mexico too! 💕
@@lilmzkittens3354 I have heard how good the food in New Mexico tastes
Come from a Cherokee family. But my grandma and her sisters would make this when they all got together at my great grandpa's house. We just dipped our bread in the chili. Or honey butter. Man I miss this!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
I just want to applaud the use of foil coverings in the kitchen. GOD BLESS YOU! 😂😂😂You are low key the smartest person for that!! All my life I have slaved cleaning the stove top, what was I thinking?!
Right!!! Lol
Im doing that starting now!!
I'm totally doing that, too!! 😁
Cantera, lol. I thought the same thing about the foil. Brilliant idea.
I would have NEVER thought of THIS.. Its ingenious.. 👏👏👏
I live in Utah. One of our favorite restaurants many years ago was called The Diné, after the Navaho peoples. The owner and chef would make Navaho burritos, fry bread filled with cooked and seasoned ground beef, the raw bread was then sealed around the edges like a hand pie, frieand served smothered with chili verde and cheese. Oh my goodness, it was so delicious!!
I grew up eating this as my mom cooked it whenever we had dried bean soups or potato and corned beef soup. She called it Irish Potato soup. We just use Self Rising flour and water. pat to the size of a biscuit and fry it. Her mom used to prepare the same when she was a child. Fried Bread is awesome.
That's exactly how my beautiful loving ❤ Grandmother used to make them the fun part I remember so clearly thank you perfect lesson teacher 😃 covering the stove with aluminum foil brings back memories also 😃 😊...
I found that hilarious!!!