How to Make this Indian Fry Bread Recipe is so quick and easy it should be criminal. Seriously. The best thing about this recipe is that you don’t need to let the dough rise, and, since the main ingredient is flour, it’s super inexpensive to make. My kids teacher makes this recipe with her students as part of their Native American unit at school every year (that’s where I got the recipe) and it’s a highlight for the students each year. I’ve helped a few years in a row, and I can tell you that I’ve seen nearly 70 kids devour this bread. It’s THAT good. To me, with a sweet topping, it tastes like funnel cake at the fair. Conversely, you can put savory toppings on it, like taco fixings, and it tastes more like a chalupa. Yummy. The recipe is absolutely kid friendly too (well, except for the frying part)!
Traditionally, you’ll make the Indian fry bread into a round disk, but for Valentine’s Day, I decided to make it into a heart. {{sweet}}
Indian Fry Bread Ingredients
- 4 cups white flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 6 tsp baking powder
- 1 large TBSP Shortening
- water (approximately 2 cups) to make a medium stiff dough
- *additional flour to work with dough
- vegetable oil to fry dough
Directions {step-by-step}
Step 1: Mix together dry ingredients.
Step 2: Add in shortening and water (approximately 2 cups). Mix together to make a stiff dough.
Step 3: Cover hands in flour and sprinkle work surface with flour so dough doesn’t stick. Make dough balls about 3 inches in diameter.
Step 4: Flatten balls with the heels of your hands to make 6 inch circles (or shape into a heart like I did). You do not need to use a rolling pin!
Step 5: Heat 1″ of cooking oil in skillet and when hot, drop in the flattened bread.
TIP: To keep oil cleaner longer, tap off excess flour from dough before dropping into hot oil.
Step 6: Brown each side. Drain on paper towel.
Step 8: Serve with favorite topping. We love powdered sugar, syrup, apricot or strawberry jam. Also yummy are taco toppings: seasoned meat, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.
- Indian Fry Bread Ingredients
- 4 cups white flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 6 tsp baking powder
- 1 large TBSP Shortening
- water (approximately 2 cups) to make a medium stiff dough
- *additional flour to work with dough
- vegetable oil to fry dough
- Mix together dry ingredients.
- Add in shortening and water (approximately 2 cups). Mix together to make a stiff dough.
- Cover hands in flour and sprinkle work surface with flour so dough doesn’t stick. Make dough balls about 3 inches in diameter.
- Flatten balls with the heels of your hands to make 6 inch circles (or shape into a heart like I did). You do not need to use a rolling pin!
- Heat 1″ of cooking oil in skillet and when hot, drop in the flattened bread.
- Brown each side. Drain on paper towel.
This looks so yummy and yet fairly easy to make too, thanks for sharing the recipe!
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