What Are Navajo Tacos?
A Navajo taco, also called an Indian taco, is built on frybread, a flat, fried, puffy dough, rather than a tortilla, topped with seasoned ground beef or beans, lettuce, tomato, cheese and salsa. It is a Native American dish tied to the mid-1800s and the government-ration era, and it is a fixture at powwows and fairs across the Southwest and Plains
Below: what a Navajo taco is, its history, and where to find one.
Navajo Taco (Indian Taco) are Navajo Nation / Southwest tacos made with beef, pinto beans, served open-face on fried frybread, served on frybread tortillas.
Built on frybread, a food born of forced displacement; the state dish of South Dakota
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