Quick, Easy, Delicious! Fry bread is a long time favorite of mine. It may not be as healthy as some things... But it can be eaten with anything! You can use it to dip in chili, or recently we had it with chicken chile verde, it can be topped with meat and veggies and eaten like pizza or tostadas, you can roll it in sugar when it's fresh out of the oil or drizzle it with with honey for a sweet dessert bread, you can use it for... Anything! And it uses basic household ingredients that in my house are always around. You just sift together the dry ingredients, stir in the wet and form it into thin discs. Drop it in hot oil until it's golden, flip it and cook until the other side is golden and pull it out, setting it on a paper towel to cool and drain excess oil. One of the quickest bread recipes I've tried!
Ingredients:
- Oil to fry
- 2 cups Flour (may need more if it's humid)
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1 Tbsp.Baking Powder
- 1/2 cup Water (Or 1 tsp. powdered milk and another 1/2 cup water)
- 1/2 cup Milk
Sift together flour, salt and baking powder.
Pour liquid over flour all at once and stir in, mixing well enough to get rid of most clumps, but not kneading. If it's too wet and sticky stir in another tbsp. of flour or two.
In a pan heat about 1 inch of oil. I have an old 3 inch deep sautee pan I use. Heat to about 375*f. or untill a very small tester drop of bread bubbles as soon as it's dropped in.
Form dough into about 4 to 7 inch discs that are about 1/4 inch thick. Or you can form them into any flat shape or size.
Fry each disc in hot oil for a few minutes on each side untill golden and crisp.
The pictures below are a batch I did with just dropping them in kind of free form because I ran out of flour and my hands were too sticky to form them into discs.
Place on paper towels (or paper plates) to drain excess grease and cool.
Serve in any way your imagination can think of.
While hot they can be rolled in sugar or sprinkled with powdered sugar to be a dessert.
