You will love these soft and fluffy Indian Fry Bread (Navajo Tacos) topped with seasoned beef, beans, and all your favorite taco-style toppings. Make this for a fun and easy dinner your family will love!
What is Indian Fry Bread?
Authentic Fry Bread is a tradition in the Western United States. Our favorite way to serve is Navajo Tacos or you can sweeten it up served with a little honey butter and powdered sugar.
Navajo Tacos
Everyone loves tacos! We all enjoy them so much, it feels like we could probably eat tacos every day. So with our shared love of tacos in mind, we made these Soft and Fluffy Fry Bread Navajo Tacos piled high with meat, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, and cheese on top of puffy, soft, super yummy homemade fry bread. It is so good! Don’t let the handful of simple ingredients fool you into thinking this is a boring recipe. These are absolutely delicious and loved by kids and adults!
Ingredients For Indian Fry Bread Tacos
Here’s what you’ll need to make Soft and Fluffy Fry Bread Tacos (the exact measurements and full recipe instructions are below in the printable recipe card):
Flour – all-purpose flour is what we used to make the fry bread.
Salt
Baking powder – the baking powder helps the fry bread puff up while it fries.
Water – use warm water when making the fry bread dough. This can just be warm water from the tap.
Pinto beans – we used two cans of pinto beans. Drain off the canning liquid and rinse them well.
Olive oil
Chopped Green chiles – a 4 ounce can of chopped green chiles adds great flavor to the beans!
Seasonings – Cumin, black pepper and onion powder.
Ground beef – use a lean ground beef for the taco topping. You can also substitute with ground turkey.
Taco seasoning – you can use pre-made or homemade taco seasoning. Find the best homemade taco seasoning here.
Vegetable oil – you will need plenty of vegetable oil for frying the fry bread. The oil will need to be 2 inches deep in your frying pot.
Taco toppings of your choice
How to Make Fry Bread Tacos
The beans are. very simple to make. Just combine the olive oil, beans, seasonings, and chopped green chiles. Mix this all together, cover, and cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
