It's easy to make your own delicious homemade Naan. This traditional Indian flatbread can easily be made at home using simple ingredients and either a skillet or a grill.
It’s easy to make your own delicious homemade Naan. This traditional Indian flatbread can easily be made at home using simple ingredients and either a skillet or a grill.
What would a feast of India be without some delicious Naan? We love our Strawberry Lassis and our to-die-for Chicken Tikka Masala, but let me tell you… the Naan makes the meal.
How To Make Naan Bread At Home Like A Pro
Naan is traditionally made in a Tandoori oven. We recognize that most home cooks do not have a Tandoori oven in their house, so our recipe uses the stovetop. Another option to cook your naan is to use a grill. This adds an extra smoky element to the naan which is more reminiscent of the authentic method of cooking your naan in a Tandoori oven using fire.
Heat an outdoor grill to high heat. Brush one side of the dough with melted butter. Place butter side down on the grill. Butter the top side. When bubbles appear, flip the dough (should only take 1-2 minutes). Cook the other side for another 1-2 minutes.
Garlic Naan – Add 2 teaspoons minced garlic to the dough mixture. Or add 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder to the melted butter for brushing.
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Cinnamon Naan – Add 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon to the dough mixture. After cooking, sprinkle the top with a 1:1 mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon.
Store leftovers on the counter in a plastic zip top bag, or freeze in a freezer safe zip top bag for up to 3 months. To reheat from frozen, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Place the frozen naan directly on the oven rack. Your naan will be warm and ready to eat in just 1 to 2 minutes. Want to keep the oven off? Thaw on the countertop, then heat in a skillet on the stove over medium-low heat until warmed through, flipping once to heat through on both sides.
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in some of our other favorite Indian recipes that you can easily make at home:
How To Make Naan Bread
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Freezer Instructions: Cooked and cooled naan can easily be frozen. Be sure to store in the freezer in an airtight container. When ready to eat, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Place frozen naan directly on the rack. They'll be ready to eat in just 1 to 2 minutes. Grilling Instructions:
Heat an outdoor grill to high heat. Brush one side of the dough with melted butter. Place butter side down on the grill. Butter the top side. When bubbles appear, flip the dough (should only take 1-2 minutes). Cook the other side for another 1-2 minutes. Flavored Naan Options:
Naan (with Whole Wheat Option)
Serving: 1 piece | Calories: 220 kcal | Carbohydrates: 33 g | Protein: 5 g | Fat: 6 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Cholesterol: 36 mg | Sodium: 354 mg | Potassium: 71 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 3 g | Vitamin A: 205 IU | Calcium: 17 mg | Iron: 1.9 mg
We share restaurant-quality recipes you can easily make at home. Our team of chefs and creatives is bringing back the family dinner in a really delicious way!How to make Naan Bread at home like a PRO - the only 4 steps you need to know. This tandoori style flatbread is soft, light and fluffy with beautiful brown blisters just like those served in Indian restaurants. Once you crack the steps to make this easy homemade naan bread, there is no looking back.
Being an Indian my love for Naans, Rotis and Phulkas are in-built. However, I understand that some of you reading this post might not be aware of the same.
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Naan bread is a leavened flatbread usually made using Yeast as the leavening agent and the speciality of this flatbread is being cooked in the Tandoor; hence the name Tandoori Naan.
Tandoor is basically a cylindrical clay pot. The heat is generated by heating up charcoal or wood fire and the temperature can go up to 900°F.
Once you reach such high temperature, the naan bread dough is then stuck to the sides of the pot thereby being exposed to direct fire to cook which results in the classic brown blisters that you see on top of the naan.
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Of course, no one has a tandoor oven at home. But still, I am going to share with you guys the exact trick of sticking the naan bread dough to your iron skillets and cooking them in a way to get that perfect brown blisters by mimicking the technique for direct-fire cooking.
So definitely stay tuned for all the tips, tricks, videos, step by step photos to help you make the best homemade naan bread ever. I have two other bread posts that I would like to suggest to you guys at this stage to check out because of the details and tips that I have shared in that too.
The basics of understanding how to make the best bread at home (be it any bread for that sake) is to understand what ingredients go into it and the role of each ingredient as well.
Two Ingredients Is All You Need To Make Naan At Home
Naan is usually a leavened flatbread made using APF or Maida whereas Roti is an unleavened flatbread made using Whole Wheat Flour.
These days due to health constraints you do get whole wheat naan in some restaurants back in India, well I will reserve that for some other day and today let us focus on the most common type of Indian bread available everywhere which is made using Plain Flour.
Well, not really even though the ingredients and method of kneading are somewhat similar there is a huge difference in the way or the preparation of the two. So definitely, they are not the same.
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I have shared a detailed post on How to Make Pita Bread at home both using APF and Whole Wheat, you can refer that for additional details.
If you are using the active variety you might have to do the one extra step of activating the yeast, since I always tend to use Instant variety I directly add it to my dough without the need to activate.
An authentic Naan recipe is made using yeast as the leavening agent, however, these days a non-traditional way of making naan is by using yoghurt and baking soda and powder instead of yeast.
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The recipe would vary slightly in that case. I will mention the substitution if possible in the recipe card or else would make a separate post altogether.
Milk would make the dough softer and keep the dough well-hydrated ultimately yielding a much softer naan. Also helps to get that beautiful brown colour on top.
The key point here is to remember to make sure that the milk is neither too hot nor too cold. Too hot would kill the yeast in the dough and too cold will not activate the yeast in the first place.
Garlic Greek Yoghurt Naan Bread
I like to dip my little finger (don't worry I wash my hands before starting with any recipe 🙂 ) into the milk or water and if I could place it there and count till 1 to 20 without feeling the need to take my finger out which I would if it were too hot then I know that the temperature is just right.
We are going to replace the role of the egg with just a little yoghurt in the recipe. Just a small amount that is a quarter of a cup of yoghurt will also make sure that the dough is so much softer.
Blah blah.. I know you might be bored by now.. 😉 But Milk Powder is also added to soften the dough. But this is optional since we are using milk to knead the dough you can skip the milk powder if you like.
Homemade Naan Bread
Let us consider other ingredients like salt, sugar and oil as additives here. Their role is not too significant enough but you need them too.
Now don't get intimidated with the list of ingredients, trust me its a really basic dough which would come together in no time.
Just like any other yeast-leavened bread dough the basic steps like Kneading, Proofing, Shaping, and Cooking remains the same for this one too.
The Easiest Garlic Naan Bread Ever
In my last Pita Bread recipe, many of you asked me to share steps on How to Activate the Yeastso including that in this one.
Collage 1: To 1/4 cup of warm water add in the yeast and sugar. Stir to mix everything. Cover it with a cloth and allow it to rise for 15 mins.
You can also put the bowl in the microwave (switch off) and let it sit there undisturbed for 15 mins. Yeast prefers a
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