Native American

Fry Bread II

A community recipe for Fry Bread II, adapted from the collaboratively edited Wikibooks Cookbook.

Easy difficulty
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Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Seasoning Salt or table salt
  • 1 cup Hot Tap Water
  • As needed Vegetable Oil to fry

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and water together in a bowl to make a dough.

  2. 2

    Grease your hands with the vegetable oil in order to shape the dough into a ball. After that, leave the dough in the bowl and cover it with a towel and set in warm place for about 20 minutes. The longer you leave the dough the fluffier the bread will be.

  3. 3

    When ready to make the bread, heat the vegetable oil to about 375°F. Make sure the oil is at least 1 inch deep in your frying pan. Put a small ball of dough in the grease as a test. If the oil is hot enough, the ball should float on the grease. If it sits on the bottom, the oil isn't hot enough.

  4. 4

    When your oil is ready, take a ball of dough about the size of a golf ball and stretch it out in your greased hands. Keep stretching it out until the dough is flattened out to about the size of a large cookie.

  5. 5

    Poke a tiny hole in the center of the dough with your finger. Next, carefully lay it in the hot oil. Let your dough brown to a golden brown color before turning it over and frying the other side.

  6. 6

    After cooking the frybread, drain it on paper towels. It's best to serve it as soon as you can.

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Source & rights

Where this recipe comes from

Adapted from “Fry Bread II” by Wikibooks contributors, revision 4512681, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This source recipe has been reformatted for Pantry Start but has not yet been kitchen-tested by our editors. Check current food-safety guidance and use your judgment.