Traditional Navajo Fry Bread | Breads

You may have seen or eaten Navajo Fry Bread at the Fair, now you can make it yourself!

Salsa and Chili Sauce has many breads. This Traditional Navajo Fry Bread Mix is easy to make and is an authentic Navajo Reservation staple. It's a no-fail mix with results that will amaze you. Just add warm water to our mix; let it rest for 30 minutes, then fry rounds in 3 to 4 inches of vegetable oil till golden brown.

Fry bread is made with flour, shortening, salt, and water, leavened with baking powder or yeast. Fry bread is sensational with honey, or sugar and cinnamon. Or serve it with our Chico's Chili Beans, available on this site.

If you've never tasted a Navajo Taco you don't know what you've been missing. The Navajo Taco was voted the State Dish of Arizona in a 1995 poll conducted by the Arizona Republic.

Fry bread has been the center of a controversy led by Suzan Shown Harjo, the president of a national Indian rights organization. One of her new year resolutions for 2005 was to give up fry bread. She described how fry bread originated in an article from The Albuquerque Journal (Feb. 24, 2005).

Before fry bread got cool, it was just a reservation soul food. Fry bread began its life as a cobbled-together food from U.S. government rations, a way to keep from starving when government occupation kept tribal members from pursing their native foods - elk, buffalo, corn, beans and squash.

In New Mexico, Harjo points out, it was born on the banks of the Pecos River in Fort Sumner at what was essentially a concentration camp for Navajos and Apaches forced from their homelands by U.S. raids. The imprisoned Indians were given rations they had never seen before: sacks of white flour, salt and iron pots. The women did their best with the alien flour and formed dough balls they patted flat and cooked in boiling animal fat over fires.
* What is now called Navajo fry bread had been born. When Navajos returned to the reservation that had been carved out for them, fry bread came, too.

A taste of the Southwest, made in Arizona.
Lacto-vegetarian.
All natural, preservative-free, no additives.
Perfect for themed gift baskets: Southwest, Arizona-made, gourmet foods.

Product Basics:
Package contains fry bread mix and a chile de arbol (for use or garnish).
Easy instructions, serving suggestions and recipe included on label.
Just add water and oil, takes 5 minutes to prepare and 2 minutes per round to cook.
Includes enriched white flour, baking powder, shortening & salt.
18 oz./510 gm.