NAAN

NAAN

Generally this is a bread that is baked in a clay oven which is fuelled with coal.  Here in USA, we don’t have a clay oven or even a sigdi or a clay tava so I make do with the utensils that I have access to.

Naan bread should be soft and fluffy and not at all like the pre-packaged stuff one buys in the supermarkets (which has a rubberlike consistency and looks fairy drab).

Recently a lot of our friends have been asking me for the recipe for naan so i decided to invite some of the ladies and bake the naan with them so that they could see first hand how it is done and just how simple the process is.

Here is the recipe

3 cups all purpose flour

2 tea sp baking powder

1/2 tea sp yeast

1 tea sp salt

1/2 cup yogurt

8 tab sp ghee or butter

approx 3/4 cup water

!n a large bowl combine flour and all the above ingredients and mix well, and make a soft dough with warm water. Knead the dough well.Cover the dough with wet cloth for approximately 3 to 4 hrs. Divide the dough into appx 14 equel portions. Roll out each portion of the dough in to small discs apply little ghee sprinkle flour and gather all the edges into the centre.  Then roll this out again into a large flat disc and roast on a gridle.