Naan

 

 

Ingredients:

3 cups all purpose flour

1tsp dry yeast

1 cup lukewarm water

1/4 cup sugar

2tsp salt

oil for the bowl where dough will rise

1/4 cup melted butter

 

Put yeast and sugar in warm water and stir it until dissolved. Leave it in a warm place until it becomes frothy.

Meanwhile, combine flour and salt. When yeast is ready, add it to flour. Knead until smooth. Make it into a ball and spread some oil over the dough and on the sides of a bowl.  Cover with a plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 1 hour or longer. Now, punch down the dough and knead a little bit. Then pinch off pieces the size of a golf ball and put on a baking sheet covered with bakers (parchment) paper. Cover lightly with aluminum foil and leave for at least 30 minutes to rise again.

 

 

Melt the butter.

 

 

Take one ball and roll it out as thin as you can. If you can't roll it thin with a rolling pin, just flatten it and roll as much as you can. Then stretch dough with your hands.

 

 

Heat up a non-stick pan. With a silicon brush, spread thin layer of butter on top of flattened dough.

When pan is hot, put buttered side down in the pan and fry for couple of minutes. While frying, brush the top side with butter. Turn and fry the other side.

 

 

Take it out on the plate and repeat the process.

 

While one is frying, roll out the second ball and spread butter on top, to be ready when first one is done.

 

 

It's meant to be eaten with Indian food but it's so good that it can be eaten alone. Instead of sandwich, you can put ingredients for sandwich on top of naan and roll it up.