I am Navajo. I have been making frybread since I was 9 years old and Navajos tacos ever since then as well. You did a very good job with everything. Normally we do use pinto beans that has been boiled in a slow cooker but canned beans such as kidney beans are just as good. I do make my beans mixed with ground beef like a chili con carne. I enjoyed your presentation though. It is best to let your dough rest for 30 minutes or more and your dough will be very nice and soft and easy to pat out.

I'm indigenous Navajo.....and I'm empressed. I don't put sugar as part of ingredients...i use powdered milk, baking powder, flour, and salt. Great job lil one. Niizhooni!!!! means beautiful!

My boyfriend is Native American and talks about growing up eating frybread all the time. His birthday is next week and you've inspired me to try and make him some!

I'm Choctaw and my great aunt makes THE BEST frybread I've ever tasted!!! Also seeing you appreciate the history behind frybread almost made me cry ❤

As a Native American, I approve of this video. I'm pretty sure every tribe has a version of fry bread. My tribe which is a northwest tribe (Nez Perce) makes their fry bread with yeast. It turns out similar to a doughnut. I'm told many of the northern tribes use yeast.

I love that you didn't flinch from the history lesson as you were making this. Our country's treatment of Native Peoples has been horrible, and still is to this day. Cultures that should be shared and celebrated have been forced into the margins.

Awwwwh Emmy! The fact you even acknowledge it being called Navajo tacos and Indian Tacos is so awesome! I'm Navajo and feel so special you wanted to try Navajo tacos 💖

Seeing this brought tears to my eyes. It's been years since I've had my mom's Indian tacos. Let alone her fry bread. thanks for this! Hey another meal my mom made when we fell on hard times was what we called fideo or sopa. She used tomato sauce and either shell noodles or fideo noodles (you can find the noodles types in the Mexican food aisle). My mom always fried the noodles in oil until golden brown then added the can of tomato sauce plus water and salt (or chicken bouillon) bring to a boil and that's that! Best soup ever.

I'm Navajo & I really appreciate you trying 😄 you did amazing!

Shout out from a Navajo (Diné)! Also, thank you for objectively addressing the origins of this food. As most non-Natives (and even some Natives) unfortunately don't understand the complex history of this treat.

I love you incorporating the chopsticks, which are such a normal kitchen tool for you, into making recipes from around the world. It reminds me that we bring a little bit of ourselves to every food we make ♥️

when I lived in Honolulu, made some frybread, and made the taco with kahlua pork...damn good!!...and experimented with making a grilled mahi mahi sammich...really good...

Seeing this always makes me think of summers on the rez. But we used smashed beans so the meat sticks and it doesn’t fall on the floor

Thank you for actually putting Navajo tacos. I live in the four corners area and they are a main dish everywhere and we adore the cultural collision between our cultures. Our clans are harmonious.

Absolutely love this series. My grandmother was in the Trail Tears. She was Cherokee. I was a change of life baby and all my relatives were seriously older when I was born. She made fry bread. I didnt know her long but she was amazing. Great cook.

I love how Emmy makes gestures like “lemme finish this bite before I talk” and then takes another bite 😂 I’m guilty of that so often

*This is such a genius idea for a series!* The history behind all the vintage dishes you've done is fascinating to me, and it's also nice to see some vintage stuff that doesn't involve Jello for once.... 😂 ......aloe vera 😉

Diné (Navajo) here and I'm happy you're making this meal!! Thank you for this!! Normally don't add butter to frybread because of the oil you fried the dough in so for toppings just honey, salt, or powdered sugar. Also if your frybread is burning when you fry it you might have a little bit too much flour on it or your oil is too hot. Also we usually make the beans ahead of time in a slow cooker so when we get back from work it's ready to eat all we have to do is make the fry bread and slice the toppings.

Im Navajo (Diné) I remember when I was in my early teens me and my grandma used to make Navajo tacos before my grandpa came home... I still make them to this day, Ahyééhéé (thank you)

These were at every powwow when I was growing up. My grandma was not supposed to eat frybread near the end of her life because of how bad for you it is, so she'd secretly give us money to buy it for her. I didn't realize this was a Navajo thing! My tribe, Anishinaabe, make this too, which is interesting because we're all the way up in Minnesota/Wisconsin. Our frybread tacos run a little more "midwestern" (u know, black olives and canned diced tomatoes). I wonder if we took this idea from other tribes, or if it was simultaneously invented? I figure there's not much you can do with the rations we were given. It's interesting to think about. Man, I haven't had frybread for so long. God I'm so hungry now.

I made fry bread all the time when I lived alone in Japan. Fry bread with Japanese curry saved my life.

Real Navajo living on the rez.... I love this video! Thanks for sharing your feedback... You are so welcome to come to the rez and get some good foods. Navajo Nation represent!

I make Navajos tacos a lot. Instead of the cold burger and beans, I use homemade hot chili, then all the tomatoes, lettuce, onions and cheese. When forming the tacos, use oil on your fingers instead of flour. To form the tacos, once you have it flattened a bit, begin by twirling the taco through your fingers and grabbing by the edges. This will stretch it to circles. A new drain rack for dishes works well for standing the tacos on their side with a layer of paper towel underneath in order for the tacos to drain.

Omg Emmy I love this video 💖 I never thought you would make this from a Navajo recipe. I’m Navajo and it’s such an honor to watch you make it, also I’m Native American ☺️💖

You have my respect for dedicating a video to Native Americans. I'm Navajo and I love when people call Indians their actual name, Native Americans. You did a good job for a first time! 😊 Looks delicious, inspired me to want to go make some.

Blackfoot here and I must say I am so proud that you filmed this. You are so inclusive with your channel. Keep up the great work! P.S. I just made a batch of fry bread yesterday ☺😊🤗💁‍♀️

My Grandpa Mom. my aunts and their kids my brother and I are part of the Oneida Tribe, (Turtle Clan) and My mom makes her own Frybread and its always a house favorite, she always made tons because we would fight over it soo much. I love it so much and I love that you made this recipe Emmy.

i am hispanic but my mother was married to an indian man way back when and picked this recipe up from him. it’s absolutely delicious. she’s the best at making it, i’m certain. i never realized it was a hard times recipe! we just eat it whenever we feel like it haha! another amazing video i love you emmy!

I live in Arizona and you can find these everywhere. I really like them especially w/ beans or with powdered sugar and honey. Yum. Thanks Emmy.

Omg Navajo tacos! You are so sweet! That's my favorite when I go home (Navajo Reservation)

My tribe makes frybread a little different! But I’m glad you talked about the history a little! Thanks for the video

My husband is Sioux native and grew up on a rez in South Dakota! The first time I went to visit him i had Indian tacos and fry bread with jam. I’ve have been obsessed ever since! I just made him a batch tonight for tacos since he’s been out in the field (military) all day, just as a little pick me up (: Love that you make videos from all different countries and cultures! ❤️

I am Mi’kmaq (First Nation tribe of eastern Canada) .. all tribes make fry bread from Mexico to Canada and Alaska :)

I'm Navajo, thanks so much for trying. I think you were successful! I do appreciate how u included the history of how it became a staple in our tradition!!

thank you for including the origin story of the frybread! also, frybread is mostly a pan-indigenous thing. the grand majority of tribes make it ☺

EMMY!! I'm Navajo, from the Navajo Rez of course, and I am so so happy you made this! You did it right in not measuring the dough ingredients. My family doesn't add sour cream or anything other than tomatoes, lettuce, and cheddar cheese. PINTO beans are absolutely amazing in them, too, and are a must. Ty for making this!

In Hungary this fried bread is called Lángos, served with sour cream, ham and grated cheese, or plain, just rubbed with garlic. Yuuuummmmmmmm! 😋

A past friend of mine is mixed with native american and Mexican. I remember her mom would make the BEST fry bread tacos. She'd even make special vegetarian ones for me. Funny how something so simple can be so special, and taste so good!

Thank you for acknowledging my brothers and sisters from the Navajo. I’m Cherokee, but we also have a form of fry bread. We love to eat it plain. Thank you for this ✊🏼✌🏼

I’ve only had frybread once. My cousin’s brother-in-law is Native, and his wife made frybread tacos when we were over visiting one day. They were so freaking delicious. They haunt my dreams. I wish I could eat them every week. Lol.

And if you are native american everyone's grandma made the best ever.

As an Apache I approve of this recipe this shit is magic

I never realized that this was a hard times recipe! I love Indian Tacos sooo much. They were a treat for us as kids. Not gonna lie I use frozen dinner roll dough to make it quick and easy!

Love Navajo tacos. To my understanding the Navajo prefer to use Blue Bird brand flour out of Cortez Colorado.

I used to go to pow wows with my godfather and they used to sell fry bread with strawberry shortcake verison with powder sugar strawberries whipped cream and another savory corn and cheese verison omg so good

We make these every time a certain friend of ours from Oklahoma comes to visit. We eat ours with a knife and fork because we cook our own beans and let the fry bread soak up the juices and it's so messy. We make a ton so we always have fry bread leftover. It is delicious heated in the oven the next morning. We use any leftover meat and beans and make breakfast fry breads with scrambled eggs. It's so good!

Diné here as well! I love this Emmy! Usually don’t use sugar in the dough just salt, baking powder and flour w powder milk. Usually use a pressure cooker for a quick way to make the beans. Great job Emmy! Nice and golden! ❤️❤️

I’m Chippewa & Sioux (from Duluth MN), I love that your making Indian tacos!! I never tried it with beans tho lol

Native from the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. It's awesome to see videos like this. Throw some red or green chile on there and its heaven!! Keep up the great work!!

I love that you used chop sticks to manipulate and flip the breads, fusion cooking?

girlfriend you did it great. it does take practice and keep doing it..love from navajo nation

I am Navajo. I enjoy your videos on making Navajo tacos I appreciate all you have done to create this dish you should try to make dumpling stew that is a good dish thank you again

Im native and growing up around my family they all called is Bannock. It wasn't until i moved to the US that everyone i talked to called is Fry bread. Eating it with chili is great. Same with peanut butter.

Mmm I looove when my gram and mom make frybread. Paiute here...proud Native. So awesome to see you make this recipe. I love having a warm piece of frybread with honey or jam for breakfast.

This reminds me of a Mexican tostada except it's with fried bread instead of fried corn tortilla. It's interesting to see how various cultures will have different variations of just one dish. Love this series! ♥️

Absolute great job adding the history and the making of this treat. Your sweetness adds to this whole video. Thank you

I just watched your video on Navajo taco. Like you said they are different from each rez. I'm from the Navajo rez. I would like to give you a couple of hints for a better taco. 1- no sugar in the dough 2-it is better to let the dough rest in the bowl if it is a small amount, covered with plastic for 30-60 mins (better dough) 3-divide your dough into equal portions no matter how much dough you make roll into a smooth ball dip in flour and rest on a platter covered in plastic 4-use a rolling pin so much easier, roll only from the center out up then down and lift dough and turn a quarter turn to keep dough even and to the right size to fit your front pan. Never roll side ways it will effect your dough. 5-home cooked beans are much preferred for tacos. Pick and sort thru dry beans of your choice and rinse till water runs clear. Add to pot with water level is almost 3/4 full of pot with a good fitting lid. Add chopped onion, chili, garlic, ham hocks, bacon grease, or tiny little bits of bacon all of your choice. Cover with a lid and cook till beans are tender. 2-3 hrs. You can also soak clean beans over night and cook your beans in a crock pot all day or while you are out. 6-rolling/patting out dough balls, flour your finger and starting in the center use your Thumbs on the bottom and your four fingers on top, start squeezing dough to thin it out, all the while using your other hand to turn dough like a steering wheel, continue until you get the same thickness all around, no flapping needed. 7- Layer in this order, Large plate, Fry bread (whole or torn into bite size chunks) your choice, fresh cooked beans and been juice, salt to your tase, meat flavored w/packet of taco seasoning mix, lettuce, tomato, cheese, chili salsa your choice. Sour cream and quac also your choice. 8-taco is to be eaten using a fork and knife, not folded and picked up like a taco, way to messy. Hope this helps a little next time you make Navajo tacos 😉

My moms fry bread is the best, then again everyone thinks their moms fry bread is hands down better than everyone’s. Also I don’t know anyone that measures the ingredients. All by eye and the feel.

The version of Navajo tacos I've had before used a yeast dough, and the filling was basically a stew made with mutton, tomatoes and chipotle chiles. That was really something.

I’m Navajo. I make fry bread a lot.. I’m really impressed on how well you made fry bread for the first time.. you did very well.. love it.. keep up the great videos.. ❤️❤️

I would've stuffed the other side with the dent to fill it, that way it wouldn't fall out as bad. My family made these all the time when I was growing up. You're right of the measurements, it's all by feel. Really enjoying these vids!

Fry bread is delicious and easy to make. Fry bread mix is sold in grocery stores here in Oklahoma. Red Corn Authentic Native American Fry Bread Mix is the best! Thanks Emmy for sharing this!💚✌

You have done a wonderful job!! Thank you so much! I am Native American from the Montaukett Tribe of Long Island NY. We are proud of you!

I love Navajo tacos!! Grew up eating these. Now I make them occasionally for my children. The fry bread is also good with just homemade honey butter! 😁

This feels so refreshing seeing a non-native person making Navajo tacos who isn’t pretending to know what they are doing. Also thank you so much for using your hands to mix the dough 😀 I know different tribes have different recipes, even within the Diné community there are different variations, but the addition of sugar is completely new to me. I was nervous to watch this because other videos about frybread are so cringy. Thank you from the bottom of my Diné(Navajo) heart for this video! 🤩 Aloe Vera

we do this kind of bread in Italy too! it's exactly how Emmy described it, crunchy on the outside and chewey on the inside. delicious! it's incredible how similar recipes develop in different countries :)

Zuni Native and you did well, Emmy!! Loved how you manhandled the taco and made it happen, I’ve always used fork and knife and now see the error of my ways hahaha keep up the great work!!

8:17 made me laugh for the first time in 3 weeks. Thanks Emmy x

Growing up a Plains Cree Indian in southern Saskatchewan we ate frybread all the time. You can find people selling frybread and Indian tacos at the gas station or around your neighborhood lol

Emmy thank you for acknowledging my clan it makes me proud to know that someone knows about my clan and especially some one i have been watching theyoutube channel ahhehe which means thank you

As a native American during the summer and fall I live for this meal! We go to powwows and they make the best fry bread. The one vendor is an award winning for her bread and we'll buy several fry breads to bring home and reheat its so good! Try it with cinnamon and sugar too. Its so beautiful. I'm Cherokee but like you said fry bread has been contributed into a lot of tribes. Our powwows we have so many different tribes that come out and act as one big family. Its absolutely amazing! I gotta say though, you forgot the salsa and jalapeños. It makes it messy but so much better!

I had Indian taco's for the first time when I moved here to Oklahoma two yrs ago. I love them, and you can find them every where out here.

It's not a Navajo taco unless it has Green Chile! Although what you made looked pretty delicious as well. And keep one to cover with honey and powdered sugar for desert.

I use to go to pow wows just for the fry bread and stay for the festivities. I love spending the day in the native culture!

My stepmom is black, white, and Native America, and she always makes frybread for the holidays. It is one of my favorite things that she makes. My dad always says that he wants to put jam on it and she always gives him this look of don't do that or I'll hurt you. But they always laugh about it. I met my stepmom when I was about 13, (I am now 20) and she has taught me so much about the things that she had gone though in her life. She is truly an amazing and inspirational woman and I aspire to be someone like her. 💕

I love how she culturally educated herself so much! One of the first things I was taught to make as a child was fry bread! It’s the best! We used what we had and made something so beautiful from it! %100 Native here! Indigenous pride! ✊🏽

Fantastic for your first time. It gets easier the more you make it. My grandma used powder milk in her recipe. Have a nice day and glad to see Diné food on KZfaq.

there’s something distinctly American about frying Native fry bread using cooking chopsticks.

I'm Argentinian. We cook something very similar (and tasty) called "tortas fritas". It's pretty much the same thing, except that they're eaten without toppings, and made using beef fat, butter or oil for the dough. Some people have it with sugar, but most prefer it as is. The flavor goes so well with mate (again without sugar), specially during a rainy afternoon. While it is not necessarily associated with any time of hardship, I've heard many poor families cook tortas fritas for their children when they can't afford to eat more than a single meal during the day, since the tortas fritas are cheap and caloric.

Growing up in I had these all the time. They had them in our school cafeterias occasionally and they also sell them in some restaurants and in our Amusement Park (Lagoon).

I used to live on the Navajo Reservation and miss eating fresh (must be) fry bread. Blue Bird flour seemed to be the favorite for making it. It is a higher gluten and higher protein flour. I used to add gluten to some of my breads--rye, especially. Lard was also very popular for the frying of the bread. There seemed to be a 50/50 split as to powdered milk should be added to the dough. I also lived in MT for a while--where did you live?

I've eaten frybread all my life. My gran uses an actual yeast dough for hers, which creates a chewier frybread that carmelizes in the cast-iron very well. It was a standard side for our meals, of venison and garden fresh veggies, with a little butter and salt on it. It also made a great dessert with butter and fresh jam. I also enjoy this style of frybread , although instead of seasoned beef and beans, many people in my area like to use chili as the base topping for our Indian Tacos (Nalleys seems to be the most popular canned chili brand for this when we find them at local Powwows).

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Frybread and Indian Tacos are not only found in the Navajo tribe. I am Chickasaw and have been enjoying this since I was a child, Love freshly fried frybread with pinto beans. Yum!!!

Thank you for making this series ❤️👏🏻 My favorite thing about different cultures is the food that brings us all together. And how each one has a dumpling! 😂

Emmy you did an amazing job for your first time making frybread and they look like they turned out pretty good. Now I want some frybread and stew! Next time try making a Rez burger it's like a regular cheeseburger but you use bun size frybead for the bun or a Rezdog it's like a corndog but the hot dog is wrapped with frybread dough then deep fried.

My Grandma was full Native American and my mother made the fry bread often. They called it Squaw Bread. I make it to go with chili. Everyone loves it!!! Our tribe is Little River Band of Ottawa Indians in Michigan.

I'm Choctaw and I grew up eating this too. Beans/meat/cheese with stuff for a meal or honey/sugar for dessert.

I'm Lakota Sioux and I approve this video!!!!?

My mouth started watering as soon as I saw the thumbnail. I HAVE to try this.

I’m Navajo. My mom cooks a big pot of pinto, red, and black beans with tomatoes, ground meat, and some red chili. Then when making the frybread she makes them as big as a plate (she says hot water makes it easier to knead with your fists so its not lumpy. She also says your supposed to be happy and not mad when making bread because it might be hard instead of soft and crispy). Then scoops the beans with the juices onto the frybread and cheese on top (the cheese melts) . Then adds the lettuce, onions, and more chili (picate sauce is good). We eat it with a fork and knife because the bean juices make it easier to cut the frybread. If you want a true rez experience have it with a shasta cola. 👍🏾 Great job!

I'm part Mi'kmaq an east coast tribe, our bread isn't so similar it's called lusknikn. But growing up in Utah around many Navajo and other indians and polynesians I ate a ton a fry bread and navajo tacos. Almost every LDS ward dinner/luau we would have navajo tacos along with whatever else was made usually holiday themed. great video.

I love how she just goes for it and EATS!!!!!!!!!!!!

This reminded me of when I was younger wow the nostalgia I just felt! Great memories great times! Thanks for doing this dish!

I really love this series. I've always had a fascination for "hard times" recipes. I love the ingenuity that comes from having very little to work with. I can't wait to see more of these recipes. As per usual, thanks for doing a great job, Emmy. Also, aloe vera.

As a navajo I approve of this! Thank you for telling the history of our people. Your respectfulness of other cultures and curiosity for them is one of my favorite things about you! Lol the bread shaping is not an easy feat... I will admit I've dropped the dough on the floor a couple of times 😅

I’m Navajo myself, and me and my Mom were watching you do this, great job! If you can try to get “blue bird flour” the oil we have used on the Reservation was

Navajo tacos ! I’ve had them recently in New Mexico and there great ❗️.

Never thought of using these for tacos, but my mama used to make these and add sugar lb some and butter on some. Amazing. Brings me back to the 90s. What am amazing time. I recommended this channel to everyone I talk to about youtube.

I live in Illinois, trail of tears sadly went through here, but I go to any and all powwow to seethe beautiful regalia, danc, and get frybread. My family came over on a boat but I can understand and respect the Native Americans that were here before my family and sh[w great appreciation