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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!
Hello Manjula, I am trying this recipe but the dough is very sticky in my hands and so soft it’s hard to knead and manage. What can I do? Should I put more flour?
Thanks for your help!
Hi Mariana,
Add more flour.
Hello Manjula jee,
I saw ur naan recipe yesterday,got the pizza stone from Target in the evening and tried it out today. They were fantastic. My family loved it.
My first batch became a little crunchier , as I baked it for more than 3 min , but next all were better than any Indian restaurant. We don’t eat naans at Indian restaurants as somebody told me that they add eggs.
THANK YOU FOR SUCH A GOOD RECIPE.
Nannu, not all Indian restaurants add eggs to their naans. You should ask the individual restaurant rather than just assuming. Hopefully you will find restaurants that have eggless naans.
Thank you JAYA for letting me know this. I will check it out next time when we go to an Indian restaurant.
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Auntie-ji,
Shukriya. Thank you for your wonderful recipes. I really enjoy your organized way of cooking.
Regarding the naan, how long will cooked naan last if you refrigerate them and then re-heat them?
Hello,
I just wanted to ask what type of oil you are using for this recipe?
Thank you very much for sharing all these wonderful recipes, I have made several and they are delicious!!
hello manjula ji,
can i use an normal microwave oven (upto 280 C, time-upto 1 hr ) , to cook naans????
@mythu
I would not recommend using a microwave oven to cook naan or any other bread. Microwave ovens operate by exciting the water molecules within the food, generating heat from within, whereas a conventional oven heats the food with radiant heat (and conductive heat from the baking stone) from the outside. This method of cooking is what yields the crisp exterior of the bread while maintaining a moist interior.
A microwave would probably dry out the dough from the inside and not properly cook the outer crust.
hello,
where i can get the pizza stone?
you can get a pizza stone from bed,bath and beyond, bloomingdales and macy’s.
Namaste Manjula,
My sister and I from denmark love your blog
When I make naan with the pizza stone, it looks good, but how can I prevent it from being crispy on the surface?
manjula aunty,
i am a pure vegetarian.i dont know about this active dry yeast.what is this made of?is it safe for health?please tell me.
Yeast is used in all bread that raises when baked. It’s been used in baking for probably a few hundred years. It’s “vegetarian”. Google it for more info.
Yeast is a naturally occurring micro-organism. If you eat fresh fruits and vegetables, you have eaten yeast.
made the naan with a pizza stone fantastic