Navajo Fry Bread

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Topped with ground beef and shredded lettuce instead of powdered sugar, this puffy fried bread becomes a Native American taco.

Prep Time: 25 mins

Total Time: 57 mins

Servings: Makes about 20 rectangles.

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Ingredients

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 package active dry yeast
1 5-ounce can evaporated milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup shortening
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
2-1/2 to 3 cups all-purpose flour
Cooking oil for frying
Powdered sugar

Directions

Combine 1-1/2 cups of the flour and the yeast. In a saucepan heat and stir milk, sugar, water, shortening, and salt until warm (120 degrees F to 130 degrees F) and shortening almost melts. Add to the flour mixture along with the eggs. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed for 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed for 3 minutes. Using a wooden spoon, stir in as much of the remaining flour as you can.

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Knead in enough of the remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and elastic (6 to 8 minutes total). Shape into a ball. Place in a lightly greased bowl, turn once to grease surface. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight. (Dough can be refrigerated up to 3 days and fried as needed, but is best the first day.)

Remove dough from refrigerator; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Punch dough down. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll dough to 1/8- to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut into 3x4-inch rectangles.

Heat cooking oil to 365 degrees F. Carefully fry 2 rectangles at a time about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes or until golden, turning once. Drain on paper towels. Sprinkle with powdered sugar while still warm; serve immediately. Makes about 20 rectangles.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 184, Total Fat 7 g, Saturated Fat 2 g, Cholesterol 23 mg, Sodium 122 mg, Carbohydrate 27 g, Protein 4 g.
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet

How to Cook Ground Beef

If you know how to cook ground beef, you can serve up a healthy one-dish meal any day of the week. Ground beef became popular as a way to make scraps of fatty beef salable. Originally the meat was chopped finely or minced, but by 1902 butchers were simply running it through the meat grinder twice along with spices and onion, and selling the resulting ground beef as "hamburger." Today ground beef is used in all sorts of dishes, from meatloaf to tacos, and Americans consume approximately 13 billion hamburgers a year.

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