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Indian fry bread
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
Oil, for frying - lard is better
Directions
Put flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Mix well, add warm water and stir until dough begins to ball up. On a lightly floured surface knead dough. Do not over-work the dough. After working dough, place in a bowl and refrigerate for 1/2 to 1 hour.
Heat oil or lard to 350 degrees in a frying pan. Lightly flour surface and pat and roll out baseball size pieces of dough (6 onches). Cut hole in middle with a knife (so the dough will fry flat) to 1/4-inch thickness and place in oil and cook until golden brown and flip over and cook opposite side until same golden brown. Dough is done in about 3 minutes depending on oil temperature and thickness of dough.
After fry bread is done top with favorite topping or, chile and cheese first, then cover with lettuce and tomatoes, onions, green chile and you have an Indian Taco.
You can also top it with sugar, cinnamon, powder sugar.
Or just eat it with you favorite soup.
I live about an hour away from a Shoshone-Bannock Indian reservation. I Have a friend that likes to hit the casino out there from time to time and he loves the fry bread that they make out there. Never have tried it myself though :)
When I get around to trying this recipe, as a vegetarian, I'll use oil instead of lard.
it's called "Bannock"
Thanks for sharing the recipe Billy, I had an Indian taco last month at a pow-wow, it was very good!
sends my private jet over for you, so you can cook some stuff for me, I wish, maybe when I win the lottery
But at least I had it before anyone else lol I need to know im special :-)