Indian Naan Bread
Ingredients
For Dough
- 500 g all purpose flour
- 150 g yogurt
- 150 g warm water
- 30 g ghee
- 7 g salt
- 5 g sugar
- 2 tsp dry yeast
For Decoration
- Sesame, nigella, cumin, garlic – on your choice
Instructions
Kneading dough
- Mix flour and yeast carefully.
- Mix salt and sugar with water, ghee and yogurt, then add this mixture to flour with yeast.
- Knead the dough for 10-15 minutes.
- Put the dough into a large bowl, cover it with plastic bag and leave to ferment for 1 hour: the dough should double in volume.
- Divide the dough into 8 pieces.
- Roll each piece into a flat cake 0.5 cm thick.
- Sprinkle herbs or seeds over the flat cake and roll on top with a rolling pin.
Baking
- Preheat oven with bread stone to 250 °C.
- Bake the flat breads for 2-4 minutes on each side.
- Very hot naans brush with ghee.
- Stack the naans and cover with a towel.
