Naan Recipe

Time and servings

Prep time	2 hr
Cook time	20 min
Total time	2 hr 20 min
Serves	5 servings

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Ingredients

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for dough:

• 2 cups maida / all-purpose flour / refined flour / plain flour
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• salt to taste
• ¼ cup curd / yogurt (fresh thick)
• 2 tsp oil
• lukewater as required (to knead)

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other ingredients:

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)

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Instructions

1. firstly, knead the dough for 10 minutes with ingredients listed for dough.
2. cover with a moist cloth and rest for 2 hours in warm place.
3. after 2 hours, knead the dough slightly. to remove if any air present in the dough.
4. pinch a ball sized dough.
5. gently roll to oval shape using rolling pin. make sure you do not make too thin nor thick. and also keep the size in mind. it should not be larger than your tawa size.
6. grease with water over naan.
7. furthermore, slowly flip over and put it on hot tawa and slightly press.
8. now after a minute, flip the tawa upside down and cook naan directly on flame till they turn golden brown.
9. also brush with some butter mixed with coriander leaves.
10. gently scrape the naan from bottom and remove.
11. finally, serve butter naan hot with your favourite curry like mattar paneer.

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Step-by-step

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Video

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Notes

• firstly, knead to smooth a soft dough else naan will be chewy.
• applying water is mandatory. this helps naan to stick to tawa and can reverse the tawa and cook directly on flame.
• in addition, you can also use oven or tandoor to bake the naan instead of tawa. but never use nonstick tawa as it slips while reversing.
• furthermore, roll to any desired shape. however, i like to keep it oval as it looks similar to the one served in restaurants.
• finally, butter naan can be turned to butter garlic naan by adding chopped garlic to butter.