Naan - No Egg, No Yeast

There are many recipes which I have come across for the north Indian Naan bread.

Here I'm giving a very simple recipe.

This will give you of course soft naan, but if you look for the restaurant type puffiness its different recipe.

I will post that later. But this one is good to start with.

Ingredients:

Bread Flour or All Purpose flour - 3 cups[I used bread flour]

Baking powder - 1 tsp

salt - 1 tsp

sugar - 1 tsp

Milk - 1 and 1/2 cup warm

oil - 3 tbsp

Method:

Combine flour,baking powder,salt,sugar and mix well.

Make a well in the middle and pour milk and oil.

Slowly mix together and make a soft dough.

Knead for a while. It will be a sticky dough.

Cover and let it rest for 1/2 an hour.

Put you oven to broil.

If you have a pizza stone its the best, other wise a baking sheet or even the broiler pan upside down will work.

Place it in the oven where the broiler is[check where the red hot iron bars are, it will be either in the bottom or top]

We need a very high temperature for naan, so need to keep it near that.

Mine is a gas oven and its in the bottom. So I keep the pan on the oven floor inside.

Now make balls like the size of 2 chappathi balls.

Roll it out nice and thin, or stretch it with hand.

Now put it in the sheet or pan inside the oven.

After 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Brown spots will appear.

Turn it over for another 1 minute.

You should keep an eye on them.

Take it out and brush with butter.

Enjoy with your favourite side dish.

You can add garlic or chopped cilantro if you wish to the rolled out naans.