Naan bread

I have started to make more and more Indian dishes like in my previous posts you may find the butter chicken and dahl. This naan bread recipe is a perfect match to butter chicken or even dahl. The bread pieces taste so good when dipped in to the butter chicken sauce for instance.

The recipe makes 2 large naan breads:

1,5 dl warm milk (37 ºC)
2 tbsp sugar
25 g yeast
9 dl flour
0,5 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp oil
1,5 dl natural yoghurt
1 egg
a bit of clarified butter (ghee)

Mix the yeast with milk and sugar. Leave the milk for 15 minutes until bubbles appear.

Mix in another bowl flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the milk. Add also oil, yoghurt and egg. Mix it to smooth dough. Put a plastic foil on the dough and let it double its size during one hour.

Preheat the over more than 250 ºC. Put the oven sheet to the oven to be pre-heated.

Divide the dough to two or more balls and bake the balls to flat tear shaped breads.

Place the breads to pre-heated oven sheet and bake in oven for 3 mintues.

After you have taken the breads out from the oven brush them with ghee.

You may also add minced garlic or chilantro to the dough for vary the taste.