Naan
Description
Naan is a flat bread that is a staple food in Southeast and Central Asia. It is especially common in India,and best goes with mutton, checken, daal makhani etc.
Ingredients
* Refined flour(Maida) -4 cups
* Milk -1 cup
* Baking Powder- 1 tsp
* Water- as required
* Eno fruit salt- 1 tsp
* Oil – 2 Tbsp
* Salt -1 tsp
* Onion seeds- 2 tsp
* Sugar -2 tsp
* Butter- 2 tsp
* Yogurt – 2 Tbsp
Methods/steps
1. Sieve flour with baking powder,Eno fruit salt, sugar ,and salt, milk yogurt and water. Knead well into medium soft dough.
2. Apply oil and keep it under wet cloth for one hour.
3. Make eight equal portion of the dough. ,apply oil and put onion seeds on top.
4. Press sides first, and then centre of the dough ball. Give a round flat shape of 6 ” diameter.
5. Stretch it from one side to give it a triangular shape. Put it on a cloth and then put it in a preheated tandoor or oven (200 degrees Celsius)
6. Remove when it become brown from both sides. Serve topped with butter.
7. Nan can be made by iron griddle (tawa)- preheat the griddle, Wet one side of nan with water and place on the preheated griddle (tava) so that the wet side of the nan is in contact with the griddle. Cover the griddle with a fry pan for 1 minute so that the bottom of the naan gets cooked.remove the fry pan and invert the griddle on the flame so that the top of the nan gets cooked with the direct flame. Remove the naan from the griddle apply butter and serve hot.
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Additional Tips
*In place of milk and yogurt we can use whey (cheese water) to make dough of naan.
* We can mix chopped methi leaves or kasuri methi to the dough to make methi naan.