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Naan

  • 1/4 cup warm milk (or warm water)
  • 1 tsp yeast
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 6 oz (1+ cup) bread flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/2 tbsp oil
  • 1/4 cup plain yogurt (optional)
  • minced garlic (optional)
  • ghee or butter with salt for eating
  1. Mix the milk, yeast, and sugar together in a bowl. It should "activate" within 10 minutes.
  2. Stir the flour & salt into a larger mixing bowl. Add the egg, oil, yogurt, and yeast mixture, and combine into a dough, or let your stand mixer's kneading hook do the combining.
  3. Knead for about ten minutes until it's shiny.
  4. Transfer to an oiled bowl. Cover with a damp towel and let it "rest" (rise) for about an hour, until it doubles in size.
  5. [Play NMS for one hour.]
  6. You may add the minced garlic to the dough here, if you want that.
  7. Dump the dough onto a lightly floured surface and chop it into 4 to 6 equal sized lumps. Pat them flat; you don't need a rolling pin.
  8. Drop each slab into a pan at medium or medium-high (not high!) heat. When it is cooked enough to puff up with darker bubble spots and freely come loose, flip it. Repeat for each slab.
  9. Melt some ghee (or butter) in a small dish, add salt, and brush it over the surfaces of each finished slab.
  10. Eat your naan.
Notes
  • Some recipes add an egg. I have never had luck with this. It adds too much liquid. So if you do this, add more flour or cut way back on the milk.
  • You may add minced garlic after the rise. I haven't tried this.
  • Probably needs salt after cooking, maybe in the ghee.
  • With an egg, maybe 6 oz flour instead of 5?
  • Use the WOK and use MEDIUM heat.