Naan bread recipes

This recepe is courtesey of the Britboard but since i am fan of indian food and i know that many also are, I thought i'd share this simple recipe to make Naan:

200 grams bread mix (Weissbrot mix)
100ml water
1 small pot natural yoghurt

(I have made up the quantities as I usually guess)

Put bread mix in a bowl and add yoghurt and some of the water stir well.
Add water as needed to make a dough. Kneed the dough for a few minutes - use plain flour to stop it sticking.
Leave in a bowl somewhere warm for 2-3 hours to rise
Make balls of dough about 5cm in diameter and roll out flat - about 5mm thick is ok!
Heat a frying pan on medium heat (3-4) and put the naan bread in it. You also use a George Foreman Grill for this.
After 2-3 mins turn it over repeat until both sides are browned.

If you want to add a filling just hollow out the dough ball and fill it before rolling it out.

just found a more detailed recipe:

Naan Bread Recipe
1lb white flour
1oz dried yeast
1 tsp nigella seed (also known in Indian stores as charnushka or kanolfi seed)
6 tbsp plain yogurt
2 tbsp ghee or melted butter
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
3/4 cup warm water
oil or ghee to coat

1. Dissolve sugar in warm water.
2. Add yeast. Yeast should froth, if it doesn't, start over with fresh yeast.
3. In a separate bowl, sift salt with flour and add nigella seeds.
4. Make a well in the centre and add yoghurt, ghee and yeast mixture.
5. Knead well until it forms a dough. Shape into a ball. If dough is sticky, add more flour until elastic.
6. Coat a separate bowl with oil or ghee and roll dough into it until fully coated.
7. Shake off excess oil and cover with damp tea-towel or cloth.
8. After 2 or 3 hours, dough should have doubled in size. This happens best in a warm area (my granny used to put hers on the mantlepiece above her fire!)
9. Knead the dough and divide into around 6 equal portions. Flatten and mould into typical 'pear' shape naan.
10. Preheat oven to 450oF/230oC and bake for 10 mins. Brush with ghee or butter and serve

I have always been interested in making Naan bread but a very reliable source has said that unless you actually have a proper tandoori or, at the very least, pizza oven it will be second rate at best. You just cannot get the required heat in a standard oven that heats up to a maximum of 250 degrees C

i've had this problem too, which is why i've given up on making them. although a friend did suggest putting a pizza stone in the oven. might work who knows.

maybe thats why in the first recipe a frying pan is used, using a heavy iron pan would allow a nice heat.
@OG have u tried it already ? Did I have to cover the pan with a lid in the first minutes?

Yip. They never really work that well. Home made naan is never that gooey fluffy thing that you want it to be.
I've given up on it to be honest.

I make piss-simple indian flatbreads that really are rather surprisinglygood. I use that griessler flour you get here, because its been double sieved, and is really fine. I simply get some flour, add some water (if you want qunatities, its roughly a bit of water to each load of flour) and knead it for a bit. Then you get a small ball in your hand, and roll it out to about 2mm thick. Chuck in a non stick pan with no oil, and cook on one side until it puffs up, then flip it, and do the other. It should puff up like a ball, and you get those naan-esque blacken spots on the breads. Very nice. You can also lob in a knob of butter to finish them off in that for extra flavour and calories.
Another cool thing to do, is use leftover mash potato as a filling. Simply mix a load of leftover mash with some peas, and a some curry powder or chat masala or summit. Make a ball from some dough, dig a hole in it with your thumb, and put a blob of the mash in it, then seal the dough round it, and roll out as normal. Nice afternoon snack (with some beer)

Have you guys tried grilling them? I find my oven only gets to around 200°C or so, but the grill is incredibly hot. I've sadly turned a few nice pieces into charcoal by letting it sit under it for a minute or two too long. Might be worth a try to get your naan.

My Nan buys her bread at Co-op, blow this making your own nonsense.

yep tried it, but at the end of the day it wasnt as fluffy as i wanted.

Indeed. It just does not work at all. You are looking for the restaurant quality and you just will not get it at all.

crawlie, next time you visit your parents, bring back a griddle stone, you know, the one they use in Wales to make welsh cakes. Heat this in the oven and bake the breads on it.

for those with some sort of a backyard, eg don riina make a tandoor it aint that hard and then for summers you are sorted, nice outside heater for winter

oooh! Good idea! How much do they weigh? I suppose if they are too heavy I could leave the bird in Wales and bring back the stone.

EDIT: Back yard??? Hmmm...

Oddly, last time I was back in Britain, loads of people had these clay things in their gardens called chirimoyas or something, that looked very similar to a small tandoor. Over here, there are loads of gardens with ouside bread ovens, that are WICKED for pizza (I really do mean wicked, like the best pizza you have ever eaten) and would probably also knock out a decent naan.

Anyway, back yard tandoor. Another fantastic project to go on my ever growing list of shit I probably won't get round to doing:

Build a tandoor
Build a hot smoker
Build a cold smoker
Get an inflatable dingy from Aldi, and try to travel from Garching into Munich along the canal with Crawlie

The last one on the list is least likely, due to Crawlie's insistence that we will in fact drown.

they are VERY heavy but compact enough to put in your hand luggage (if you can get away with it).

No no no. I am well up for this test as I am sure we will succeed. However, the worry is that success will depend on the amount of alcohol consumed before and during the trip.


What? The woman or the stone?

crawlie you will be in the dingy not waddling alongside while the don holds onto you with one hand and rows with the other and in between if you make too much trouble he may wack you with the paddle so you may actually die of headwounds!

bored at work

If it helps, I have an inflateable arctic life raft, it's the size of a small house and has a few holes in it so you have to keep pumping air but the main thing is you can fit a couple kegs in there which might just be enough to last you for the duration of the trip.

OMG !
How the hell did we get from Naan Bread to Liferafts within 18 posts !
Amazing !

Back on topic with no problem - we'll just turn the rafting trip into a mission from Garching to munich by canal, to buy some naan bread. Sorted.

there was this other canal the europeons used also to get some good nan and much more...now what was it called...

The Don and Crawlie went on the Isar in a beautiful pea green boat
They took some Weißbier and plenty of rizzlas
Wrapped up in a five euro note
The Don looked up to the clouds above and sang to a small guitar
"Crawlie you twat, oh Crawlie you twat,
What a complete muppet you are, you are, you are,
What a complete muppet you are."

Crawlie said to the Don, ...

...anyone?

200 grams bread mix
100ml water
1 small pot natural yoghurt

(I have made up the quantities as I usually guess)

Put bread mix in a bowl and add yoghurt and some of the water stir well.
Add water as needed to make a dough. Kneed the dough for a few minutes - use plain flour to stop it sticking.
Leave in a bowl somewhere warm for 2-3 hours to rise
Make balls of dough about 5cm in diameter and roll out flat - about 5mm thick is ok!
Heat a frying pan on medium heat (3-4) and put the naan bread in it. Purple Muffin uses a George Foreman Grill for this.
After 2-3 mins turn it over repeat until both sides are browned.

If you want to add a filling just hollow out the dough ball and fill it before rolling it out.

will try that some time thanks, although our local supermarket does naan bread.

My naan makes really nice bread too

Did you chop her up into bite size pieces ??

Is there anything you guys can't resist replying to???

nothing wrong with my reply, well this time

I do tmine in the George Foreman grill and they come out lovely!

Which bread mix do you use ?

Just a plain white bread mix - weißbrot. You could use any bread mix! But you don't often see wholemeal naans!!