WHOLE WHEAT GARLIC BUTTER NAAN

Sharing with you one more, special dear to my family recipe of Indian flat bread, world famous as “Garlic Naan” . Not just me, this naan is favourite of everyone who have tried Indian food , isn’t it ? Naan is one of the most ordered bread in an Indian restaurant. Usually, this soft tasty bread is cooked in tandoor oven, a hot clay oven used to cook tandoori dishes. Additionally, preparing garlic butter naan with this step by step photo recipe doesn’t require you to have a clay or gas tandoor as it uses  a unique “cook over flame” technique to get the burnt smoky flavour as you get with naan cooked in tandoor.  It’s difficult to make them on tawa but I managed to make them on tawa / gas.

 First, one side of naan is cooked on tawa/ griddle on gas stove and then the other side is cooked directly over the gas flame by turning upside down to get tandoori like flavour. Garlic naan is my favourite naan. It goes really well with so many punjabicurries. The garlicky flavour of naan compliments the spicy flavour of different Punjabi curries. This can be made in oven too. But not all home kitchens have oven so here is my full recipe of garlic naan on tawa instead of oven. So why not to use gas stove and a tawa to recreate this soft and delicious naan bread. Just give a try to this recipe and I am sure you will be surprised how easy it is to make garlic naan at home on gas stove/ tawa. So be ready to give a treat of garlic butter naan at home and make them happy. This is whole wheat naan recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

3 Cups Whole Wheat Flour/ Atta

1 tablespoon Sugar

½ teaspoon Instant Yeast

1 Cup Water or as required

3 to 4 tablespoon Curd / Dahi / Yogurt

2 tablespoon Softened Butter (unsalted or salted)

¾ teaspoon Salt or as required

1 teaspoon Kalonji  [onion seeds]

2 tablespoon Finely chopped Coriander

2 tablespoon Chopped/ roughly paste Garlic

Butter as required for spreading on the naan

METHOD:

STEP 1 – In a bowl, take the instant yeast, sugar, add a little water and stir the mixture.

STEP 2 – Then add 1 cup whole wheat flour and stir or whisk it with the rest of the yeast mixture.

STEP 3 – Cover and keep aside to leaven for 40 to 45 minutes.

STEP 4 – Then add the remaining whole wheat flour, salt, butter and curd/ yogurt.

STEP 5 – Knead to a soft and smooth dough.

STEP 6 – If the dough become sticky, add a few tbsp. of flour and knead again. If it’s dry, then add some more water.

STEP 7 – Keep the dough in bowl greased with oil.

Cover the dough with a moist cloth and keep aside for 25 to 30 minutes or till the dough leavens.

STEP 8 – Divide the dough into medium sized balls.

STEP 9 – Give a resting time for dough balls for about 15 to 20 minutes. Cover again with the same moist cloth and keep aside.

STEP 10 – Lightly dust the dough balls with some flour. Press gently and apply some flour on it.

STEP 11 – Using a rolling pin, roll the naan dough into a small to medium sized rounds/rotis of medium thickness. Alternatively, you can make naan using hand instead of using rolling pin. Strech the naan using hand to make it oblong shaped.

STEP 12 – Sprinkle some of the onion seeds , chopped coriander and crushed garlic over the rolled  naan.

STEP 13 – Turn the naan upside down [garlic side down] and apply water on the other side. [Water along with the flour make a sticky glue that will help naan get stuck on hot tawa.]

STEP 14 -  Place the naan on a hot tawa or griddle keeping water side facing tawa and cook it on high flame for 1 minute.

STEP 15 – When the bottom is partly cooked, you will see bubbles on the naan.

STEP 16 - Then turn the tawa upside down on gas flame as shown in photo. Then cook naan from all sides. For this keep the tawa in slanting position over the heat so that sides will cook properlly. Keep moving the tawa so that naan will evenly cook from all the sides.

STEP 17 – Remove naan from tawa and  flip the naan with the help a pair of tongs and cook directly on the gas flame.

STEP 18 –  Then cook well from the other side on the gas directly.

STEP 19 – The naan will puff up. Flip and brown the naan.

STEP 20 – Place the hot naan in a roti basket or casserole. Smear some butter on top of each naan and serve.

STEP 21 – Make naans this way with the remaining dough. If not serving straight away, then stack them in the roti basket.

STEP 22 – Or else you can serve these butter naans immediately with some Punjabi curry.

Serve hot garlic naan with Punjabi curries like aloo palak, palak paneer, matar paneer or non-veg currires like butter chicken, murg mussalam, etc.