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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.
Other languages do offer hints of European influence, however, for example Navajo: bááh dah díníilghaazhh "bread that bubbles" (i.e. in fat), where "bááh" is a borrowing from Spanish: pan for flour and yeast bread, as opposed to the older Navajo: łeesʼáán which refers to maize bread cooked in hot ashes [7] Likewise, Alutiiq alatiq comes from the Russian: ола́дьи, romanized ...
Navajo taco – A taco made with frybread, rather than a tortilla. Panocha – a pudding made from sprouted wheat flour and piloncillo. The sprouted-wheat flour was historically called panocha flour, or simply panocha, [44]: 26 but this has become a slang term for 'vagina'.
Fry bread, Navajo Nation Luke E. Montavon/AFP/Getty Images Golden, crisp rounds of fry bread are a taste of home for many in the Navajo Nation, as well as a reminder of a tragic history.
Arizona: Navajo fry bread. Navajo fry bread is a soft, fluffy dough fried to a golden brown and served with honey or savory toppings such as beans and cheese.
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One of the Navajo's biggest cultural staples is fry bread, largely due to its history. In the mid-1800s, the Navajo were forced by the United States government to walk from their lands in Arizona to Bosque Redondo in New Mexico, a walk along which hundreds of Navajo died. Bosque Redondo was not conducive to the Navajo's usual diet, and the ...
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