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 Aunty,I made that Naan recepie yesterday,It comes out very tight and not good even I mixed Oil AND YEAST in all-purpose flour even i set my at 500 degrees..i dont have pizza stone..I used baking tray but my recipe was not good as i want …what should i do for next time ..plz reply
it is possible without pizza stone?????pls answer me….
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Thank you so much Manjula! After many failed attempts at Naan, I have just made the most wonderful naan that I have ever eaten using your recipe. I used a pizza stone in my grill as opposed to my oven. It was heavenly. I rolled garlic and cilantro on top first to make a great garlic coriander naan. Shukriya!
Hi Manjula,
All your recipes are too good but in naan what is the dry yeast where should I get the one. I never tried naan. Please help me for that.
Thanks,
Anusha
hey anusha i wud like to say that the yeast that u r sayin you can buy that from anywhere any geocery shop u go to.
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Hello,
could i replace the yogurt with vegan yogurt?
thank you,
Alexis
Thank you so much for the recipe and video. We loved our Naan. It was our very first time to make it. We will certainly be making it again. Thank you!
Thankyou for the wonderful recipes and videos.
I just cooked my naan one at a time using a cast iron skillet in the oven instead of a pizza stone (don’t have one) and they puffed beautifully. They were also kheema-stuffed.
Oh and I just threw all the dough ingredients in my breadmaker on the dough cycle and it turned out fine. This was much faster and easier.