🌮Simple Naan🌮. This naan recipe is deceptively easy to make, and baked under the broiler. You can spice it up by adding garlic, or leave it plain. The recipe is easy but needs some adjustments to make it taste more like naan.
This recipe can be easily adapted to make garlic naan. Roll to press the garlic into the dough and cook as described above. What to Do with Naan Bread. You can cook 🌮Simple Naan🌮 using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of 🌮Simple Naan🌮
- Prepare 375 g of plain flour 4 tbsp plain yoghurt.
- It's 2 tbsp of melted ghee or butter.
- It's 1/2 cup of lukewarm water (extra for kneading the dough).
- Prepare 1 tsp of yeast 1 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp baking soda.
- It's 2 tbsp of milk powder 2 tbsp Sesame seeds 1 egg (lightly beaten).
Grill naan pieces on a grill or electric griddle. In a pinch, a frying pan sprayed with some nonstick cooking spray will work. This recipe yields a very soft, chewey naan. Just the way I like it!
🌮Simple Naan🌮 instructions
- Add the yeast and sugar to the 1/2 cup of water and allow to stand for 10-15 minutes. Sieve the flour, salt, milk powder and baking soda into a bowl. Add in the yeast mixture, the butter or ghee yoghurt and the egg. Mix to a smooth, soft dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface for 10 minutes..
- Place the dough in a well greased bowl. Brush lightly with melted butter or ghee. Cover and stand in a warm place for 2-3 hours until the dough roughly doubles in size. Place the dough on a floured surface. Punch the dough down and knead for 4-5 minutes. Split the dough into four pieces. Roll the dough into balls, place on a lightly floured plate and covered and leave to rest for 20 minutes..
- Preheat your oven grill and place the baking tray underneath. Place a ball of dough on a floured surface and use your hands to make it into the shape or thickness you want. Brush with melted butter or ghee and sprinkle on some sesame seeds. Place the naan on a hot tawa for about 1 minute until it bubbles up..
- Transfer the naan to the hot baking tray and cook under the preheated grill for about 1 minute until the naan starts to turn brown. Brush the naan lightly with melted butter or ghee before serving. #Tip: If you don’t add the egg you should add a 2 or 3 tbsp of water or yoghurt to get a soft dough. When you shape the naan do not use on a too much pressure on rolling pin or you will squeeze all that precious air out of the dough just make a naan gently..
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Naan is a leavened Indian flatbread traditionally cooked in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay or metal oven also used to make tandoori chicken. Plain yogurt gives the dough a pillowy, stretchy crumb, and cooking it over high heat gives naan bread its signature glossy, blistered surface, which is finished by brushing with ghee or butter. Naan is an Indian recipe; it's a type of flat bread. Traditionally they are baked inside a very hot clay tandoor oven, with charcoal or wood fire. The naan bread are stuck to the inside of the oven just like the picture below.