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Frybread (also spelled fry bread) is a dish of the indigenous people of North America that is a flat dough bread, fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard.. Made with simple ingredients, generally wheat flour, water, salt, and sometimes baking powder, frybread can be eaten alone or with various toppings such as honey, jam, powdered sugar, venison, or beef.
They originated in Mexico and Central America, and remain popular throughout the Americas. Peoples of the Oaxaca region in Mexico first made tortillas at the end of the Villa Stage (1500 to 500 BCE). [ 4 ] [ page needed ] Towards the end of the 19th century, the first mechanical utensils for making tortillas, called tortilla presses ...
Tacos de barbacoa made with yellow corn tortillas at a Mexican restaurant in Chicago (2006) Maize has been a staple food for many thousands of years. It is the most-planted crop in the Mexican region. The country grows more than 42 distinct maize cultivars, each of which has several varieties.
Fried dough is a North American food associated with outdoor food stands in carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, rodeos, and seaside resorts. "Fried dough" is the specific name for a particular variety of fried bread made of a yeast dough; see the accompanying images for an example of use on carnival-booth signs.
A flour tortilla (/ t ɔːr ˈ t iː ə /, /-j ə /) or wheat tortilla is a type of soft, thin flatbread made from finely ground wheat flour.Made with flour- and water-based dough, it is pressed and cooked, similar to corn tortillas. [1]
A fried dough food found in the cuisines of Central Asia, Idel-Ural, and Mongolia. They may be thought of as cookies or biscuits, and since they are fried, they are sometimes compared to doughnuts. Bugnes: Italy, France: Buns Nigeria: A fried dough ball snack similar to puff-puff, excluding the yeast. Buñuelo: Spain
A dense biscuit, sometimes served with ham. Before baking the dough is beaten extensively with a rolling pin or other blunt instrument. [85] Frybread: West Indigenous cuisine of the Americas: Flat, fried bread with a fluffy interior and crunchy exterior, made with wheat flour, sugar, salt, and lard or vegetable oil. [86] Hot water corn bread: South
A sopaipilla, sopapilla, sopaipa, or cachanga [1] is a kind of fried pastry and a type of quick bread served in several regions with Spanish heritage in the Americas. [note 1] The word sopaipilla is the diminutive of sopaipa, a word that entered Spanish from the Mozarabic language of Al-Andalus. [9]