Naan bread
| Naan bread | |
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| Makes 4 of the best naan breads you will ever have tasted | |
| Servings: | 2 to 4 |
| Calories per serving: | 477 |
| Ready in: | 3 hours 15 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 3 hours |
| Cook time: | 15 minutes |
| Difficulty: | 
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| Recipe author: | Chef |
| First published: | 31st January 2013 |
Forget the take away, make it yourself from now on. These are way better than packaged shop bought naan breads.
Ingredients
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- 1/2 teaspoon dried yeast
- 250 g (9 oz) strong white flour
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder*
- *(can be omitted, see discussion page)
- 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil. I prefer to use garlic olive oil.
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons of natural yogurt
- *can be replaced with 4 tablespoons of milk if yoghurt not available.
- 100 ml water - or by weight instead of volume, 100 g water
Mise en place
- Preheat your top grill to its highest temperature
Method
- Knead the dough by combining all the ingredients and sufficient water, this will be roughly ¾ cup.
- Wrap the dough in a damp muslin cloth and leave it to rise for 2-3 hours.
- Preheat an oven tray under your grill on it's very highest heat
- Divide the dough into 4 small balls.
- With a rolling pin or by slapping and stretching with your hands, roll out the balls so they are about the size of a pitta bread.
- Unlike some breads, you don't need to let these prove, straight to the oven they go.
- Brush a little vegetable oil on to the hot tray, slap the naans on to the tray and grill for about 2 minutes a side, watching it like a hawk! The difference between perfect naan breads and a brown biscuit is about 30 seconds.
- They should have a crunch on the outside and a soft spongy inside.
Serving suggestions
Serve hot, brushed with melted butter.
Using a bread maker
If you have a breadmaker, tip all of the ingredients into it, set it on a long (2:20) dough setting and start at step 3 above. It could not be easier.
For the Panasonic SD 253 breadmaker, use basic dough setting.
For the Panasonic SD-ZB2502 automatic breadmaker use menu option 16, basic dough.
Variations
Experiment with various flours. The seedy naans shown were made with Allinson seed and grain bread flour instead of plain flour, and they were wonderful. You could of course, just add a handful of mixed grain (barley flakes, kibbled rye, sunflower seeds, millet and linseed) to normal flour.
We've found that by leaving them rise a little in a warm place such as on our fire, pictured, makes them puff up more that they do if you bake them immediately. They are even nicer this way and we now use naans as a preference to pittas. 20 minutes is an ideal time for this, if you leave them any longer they achieve a very bready consistency and are not as nice. Experiment!
Chef's tip
Use a pizza stone if you have one for even better results.
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