Naan Bread
May 22nd, 2007 filed under Breads
Naan is traditionally cooked in a clay oven or “tandoor.” This recipe uses a regular home oven.
Makes 6 Naan.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of All Purpose flour (Plain flour or maida)
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- Pinch of baking soda
- 2 tablespoons of oil
- 2 1/2 tablespoons yogurt (curd or dahi)
- 3/4 cup lukewarm water
Also needed:
- 1 teaspoon of clear butter or ghee to butter the Naan
- 1/4 cup All Purpose flour for rolling
Method:
- Dissolve active dry yeast in lukewarm water and let it sit for 10 minutes or until the mixture becomes frothy.
- Add sugar, salt and baking soda to the flour and mix well.
- Add the oil and yogurt mix, this will become crumbly dough.
- Add the water/yeast mixture and make into soft dough.Note: after dough rise will become little softer.
- Knead until the dough is smooth. Cover the dough and keep in a warm place for 3-4 hours. The dough should almost be double in volume.
- Heat the oven to 500 degrees with pizza stone for at least thirty minutes so stone is hot. Using a pizza stone will help to give naan close to same kind of heat as clay tandoor.
- Next turn the oven to high broil.
- Knead the dough for about two to three minutes and divide the dough into six equal parts.
- Take each piece of dough, one at a time, and roll into 8-inch oval shape. Dust lightly with dry flour to help with the rolling.
- Before putting the Naan in oven, lightly wet your hands and take the rolled Naan, and flipp them between your palms and place onto your baking/pizza stone into the oven.
- You can place about 2 Naan on the baking/pizza stone at a time. The Naan will take about 2 to 3 minutes to cook, depending upon your oven. After the Naan is baked(Naan should be golden brown color on top).
- Take naan out of the oven and brush lightly with clear butter or ghee.
- wait 2 to 3 minutes before baking the next batch of naan. It gives oven the chance to get heated again to max.
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Serve Naan with Daal, Chola, Palak Paneer or any vegetable. Enjoy!
We tried your naan recipe tonight and the aloo masala recipe too. They were both wonderful! Thanks for sharing your website with the world!
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Hello Manjula Ji
We tried your Naan, it comes good, but my problem is how
do we keep this soft after 2 hours?
Like Restaurants when we order it will be soft, we have to eat the
moment we make the naan at home.
Is there any thing that keeps it soft even after 3 hours?
Thanks
Usha
keep them covered.
HELLO MANJULA JEE…………….
WHERE DO I GET THE PIZZA STONE?PLZZZ TELL ME
THANKS
Hi Jasmine,
I bought my pizza stone from Target, the one Manjula aunty uses i could not find a one like that, but i found a round pizza stone with rack at Target for only $10. And When i made my naan i could easily fit 3 naans at a time. they came out wonderful.
Hiral
Hi,
I am staying in new jersey.Mam where can I get pizza stone?how much price it is?I want to try this receipe.
Hi Sutapa,
I also live in New Jersey and I bought my pizza stone from Target, the one Manjula aunty uses I could not find a one like that, but I found a round pizza stone with rack at Target for only $10. And When I made my naan I could easily fit 3 naans at a time. They came out wonderful.
Hiral
You will get onea t Wallmart, a round one just for $7.00. Works good for me
Hallo Aunty ,
Will You plz poat the recipe for suji Halawa . My husband love it & Moreover We have to prepare at the time of satyanarayan pooja & other festival.thanks.
Hallo aunty,
I know how to prepare yogurt at home but i wanted to know which brand of yogurt I should Use ? I am in USA (Eastern)
I’m in New England and use Dannon yogurt (regular style, not the low fat or non fat). There are other popular brands like Columbo and Stonyfield, but I like the flavor of Dannon over the others.
It’s all personal preference. Just try different brands. I use only the regular because it’s creamier and more authentic tasting.
Hi Jaya ,
Thanks for ur reply . Regular style yogurt means plain Dannon yogurt ,Right. plz clarify me about this.
thanks,
vidya
Yes, use the Plain.
Auntyji i yest made it,and it came out good,i put it directly on the oven rack,it worked just fine..thnx.
Hallo Aunty,
Which brand of butter u used for paneer butter masala? Or u prepared it at home .Plz tell us the recipe . I dont like american store curd .thanks
Aunty
I have made this recipe several times already and it has come out perfect each time.Thanks for the wonderful recipe. I had a question. Could I substitute all purose flour with whole wheat flour. Please let me knw.Thanks
Try half whole wheat and half all purpose
Thanks Auny
I tried half wheat and half all purpose the results were excellent. It was very easy to roll the dough and also it was much softer….thanks again…..