Fry Bread Tacos from a Native American Food Truck — Cooking in America

In this episode of Cooking in America, Sheldon hits up Seattle's Off the Rez food truck where he learns all about fry bread, the Native American staple.

Eater is the one-stop-shop for food and restaurant obsessives across the country. With features, explainers, animations, recipes, and more — it’s the most indulgent food content around. So get hungry.

[andrewmudd]

Off the Rez catered my wedding in 2012! They're such good folks, and their food is delicious. Super stoked to see them on here!

[jaydude]

Navajo here from the Diné tribe. Just want to say thank you for the recognition of the Native Americans here in the U.S. And this video was informative and made me hungry asf. Hahah.

[audybharksuwana]

More on the Native American community would be great!

[brettgibson]

Back in 2009 a group of my friends from the UK visited Seattle and the reservations around Olympic peninsula; we visited with the Makah, Quileute, Jamestown S’Klallam and Suquamish Nations. I was introduced to fry bread on the Makah Reservation, when we had a cookout on the beach and some of the community cooked for us. I had my first Indian Taco whilst attending the Tribal Canoe Journey on Suquamish Reservation. They tasted awesome. And don’t get me started on huckleberries... the jam is soooo good. On my last visit to Seattle last year I brought some home. I didn’t bring enough!

[GoalGloryyeditz]

Cherokee from the Mcraw tribe here, as the Navajo dude here said, thanks for the recognition here! Looks amazing! 🪶 🦅 (Fun fact: eagle is the spiritual animal of the Mcraw tribe!

[macktruk]

Sheldon you are so awesome, positive and sincere. You are great!

[chrisbeatty]

I am half Native American, and fry bread is a must! We never lived on the tribe’s reservation, but when we do go back one of my aunts already has the dough ready to fry some bread because she knows we want some. We try to make it at home, but it isn’t the same like my aunt does it. It does something to you when you eat it. It is like it connects to your soul, and we eat it up. As far as I can remember, I have been eating fry bread. From the time a baby can eat solid food, fry bread is given to a Native American child. Fry bread is a part of Native American culture, and it just makes you remember all the good times you had sitting and enjoying being with each other. Some have passed on, but you just remember. I love being Native American!!

[irishmarine]

When I worked out on the street in Seattle a few years back doing ticket sales the guys from this truck used to hook me up with fry bread all the time - some seriously cool dudes!

[brewskisempire]

Growing up in Montana, this really makes me miss it. Thanks for sharing their story.

[NewfieLawNerd]

Great to see Native American food getting a platform.

[ncredbird]

Good to see my heritage used in good services. I've always find it sad that our history of food has been ignored and erased instead of shared and celebrated.

[Parii]

bruh all their stuff looks so freaking good

[JaywayWong]

fry bread - a necessity food item born out of rations of flour and lard

[LMChavez]

Okay, some of the Hungarians in the comments who can’t seem to grasp the concept of different cultures having similar foods, we get it you have a version of fried bread too.

[lilykep]

I have these every time I go back to Oklahoma. The ones we have are as big as a plate.

[sundawg]

I love fry bread native tacos. The best. So good.

[travissomething]

Fry bread is amazing. First had it at the Alabama Coushatta reservation in Texas’s Great Piney Woods. Instantly fell in love with it. All the better with good venison sausage

[Pharein]

Used to have fry bread all the time as a kid in New Zealand. I loved them hot with butter and Golden Syrup.

[LegendoftheGalacticHero]

We also fry bread like that in Galicia. Seeing those tacos reminds me of what I do with my bread when I feel fancy but I mostly like it simple. If I ever visit Seattle I'll try to try this!

[PrettyBoyKii]

Frybread is a labor intensive dish, which is why a lot of time it's done for special events or pow wow season. A spot on the Grand Ronde rez used to have the Skookum Burger. Which was a HUGE burger made with huge frybread buns. It was one of those challenge burgers. Skookum is a word from my coastal tribe that means the equivalent of demon.