frybread

American  

[frahy-bred] / ˈfraɪˌbrɛd /

Or fry bread

noun

1. a flatbread made from fried dough and served with a variety of toppings, such as powdered sugar or taco ingredients: a signature food among many Native American communities, especially in the Southwest.

   My Navajo grandmother makes the best frybread, drizzled with raw honey and crushed pine nuts.

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Etymology

Origin of frybread

First recorded in 1965–70; fry ¹ ( def. ) + bread ( def. )

Example Sentences

From his enthusiastic dancing dad and slumbering grandma to the overly productive frybread vendor, each character is deftly rendered with a familiar and affectionate warmth.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

Instead, there were tri-tip sandwiches and frybread, and the parade featured a skit about dam removal with participants holding large paper cutouts of fish.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2023

He recalls a time when he would specify frybread and Indian tacos as authentically Indigenous, even though their actual origins are in the U.S.

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2023

The breakfast features fairly standard brunch fare, but the late afternoon-evening menu offers Indigenous savory or sweet frybread options, braised bison stew, or “foragers gathering,” a vegetable terrine with blackberry-juniper-onion gravy.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021

The best frybread, next to her aunt Mabel’s and her new auntie Bernadette’s, that she had ever eaten.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith