Navajo Tacos Near You, Arizona and Beyond
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How to spot good navajo tacos
- A Navajo taco is built open-face on frybread rather than a tortilla, usually with ground beef, beans, lettuce, tomato and cheese.
- The frybread should be hot and freshly fried. Reheated frybread turns leathery.
- It is eaten with a fork and knife. This is a plate, not a handheld taco.
- You will find them at Southwest roadside stands, fairs and powwows more often than at taquerias.
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
Where US venues name it
Counted from venue names in our directory, so it undercounts places that serve it without saying so.
Navajo Taco: your questions
What is in a navajo taco?
ground beef and beans, specifically beef, pinto beans, served open-face on fried frybread. Usually topped with lettuce, tomato, cheese, green chile.
What tortilla do navajo tacos use?
Frybread.
Where can I find navajo tacos in the US?
Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oklahoma. In this directory 2 venues name the style, led by AZ (2) — a count of places that say so on the listing, so it undercounts.
Where do navajo tacos come from?
Navajo Nation / Southwest, United States. Known in Spanish as Indian Taco.
Last updated September 29, 2026. Venue details refresh with each data import.