Naan is a leavened oven baked flat bread,popular in India,Pakistan and west Asia. It is definitely the most popular bread served in Indian restaurants. Traditionally, naan is cooked in a tandoor or clay oven.It goes well with any spicy North Indian curry like palak paneer, Paneer Butter Masala, Kadai Chicken and many more.We sometimes make this yuumy curry at home but we enjoy these curry with normal roti or chapati for not knowing the exact procedure of making naan at home. Few days back,I cooked Paneer Peshewari , and thought of having it with some soft butter garlic naan..so first time I tried to make naan at home..I cooked it in tawa and it came out so well. I am not telling that the taste was exactly similar to the restaurant style naan..but it was quite good.It is a hassle free procedure of making naan at home. .as here no baking method is required.
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Author - Moumita
Preparation Time - 10 Minutes +Rising Time
Cooking Time - 20 Minutes
Servings -6 Pieces
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INGREDIENTS Flour - 2 Cups + 2tablespoons (dusting)
Lukewarm Water - 1/2cup+more for kneading the dough
Yeast-1teaspoon
Sugar - 1 tablespoon
Yoghurt -2 tablespoons
Salt - to taste
Oil - 1 teaspoon
Kalonji or Nigella seeds -1 tablespoons
Coriander Chopped -1/4cup
Garlic-1/4cup (chopped )
Butter - 2 tablespoons
METHOD Add 1 teaspoon yeast and 1tablespoon sugar into 1/2cup warm water.
Mix well and keep to proof for 10 mins.
In a large mixing bowl take 2 cups of flour, add a pinch of salt...mix well...add the yeast mixture and yoghurt .. mix well.
Knead the flour mixture with yours hand into a dough...add more warm water if required while kneading.
Now add a tablespoon of oil and knead this again for 2 minutes.
Cover the naan dough with a moist kitchen towel and keep aside in a warm place to rest for 1 to 1.5 hour.The dough will doubles as the yeast activates.
After 1 hour,Sprinkle some flour on the dough and knead it for a minute. Now divide the naan dough into roughly equal size dumplings.
Mix the garlic,kalonji and coriander in a bowl for the topping.
Put a tawa on gas stove and heat up the tawa in high flame.
Take each dough dumplings on a plain surface..you can use kitchen slab or rolling board. .(sprinkle flour if required ) and roll into dough using rolling pin to make a oval shaped naan.
Take 1teaspoon of garlic,coriander and kalonji mixture and spread on one side of naan .
Using the rolling pin, roll once to press all the ingredients.
Flip the naan on its back, and apply little water using hand.
Place the naan on hot tawa wet side down garlic side up. Gently press using hand or spatula to stick in on tawa.Cook for few seconds on high flame.
Take the naan and stick to the hot pan on the water side.Let the naan cook for a couple seconds or until bubbles will be appeared on naan. Naan would be stuck to the tawa.
Turn the tawa upside down on gas flame as shown in photo.Move the tawa carefully on flame to cook naan until brown spots appear.
Take the garlic naan out with a spatula and place it in a serving plate and smear some butter.Cook remaining naan dumplings using above steps.
Serve garlic naan hot with some spicy curry like
Paneer Peshewari
Paneer Makhani
Paneer Butter Masala
Murg Palak
Punjabi Dum Aloo
