Easy Naan Bread Recipe

This easy naan bread recipe may sound or look difficult to pull off at first glance, but as the name suggests is pretty simple. This bread will go down perfectly at a party or family gathering especially when accompanied by a nice curry.

The added beauty of this recipe is that you don’t need a traditional tandoor in order to pull it off, you just need the good old grill on your cooker. What could be simpler?

Ingredients (serves 30 people)
1000 g plain white flour
400 g wholemeal flour
20 g easy-blend dried yeast
3 tsp runny honey
10 g salt
10 g pepper
250 ml warm skimmed milk
1000 ml natural yoghurt
150 ml sunflower oil

Directions
The first thing you need to do when attempting this naan bread recipe is to sift the salt, pepper, white and wholemeal flower into large mixing bowl. Next, make a well in the center of it and pour the yoghurt, milk, honey and oil into this. Mix the ingredients thoroughly until a dough is formed.

The next, task is to remove the newly formed dough from the bowl, place it on a floured board – so that it doesn’t stick – and knead it for roughly 3 minutes.

When you’ve finished kneading place the dough into a lightly oiled bowl, cover with wrapping film and place in a warm corner for roughly 2 hours - to allow it to rise.

When to time has elapsed the next process in this naan bread recipe is to place the risen dough onto a floured board and knead it for 3 minutes. Next, split the dough into 30 pieces and press flat into oval shapes, using a floured rolling pin (flatten roughly to 8 inches/20 cm) in length.

When you’re satisfied with the shapes, place them onto a floured baking tray, cover with film and place on the side for 10 minutes to allow it to rise.

The final step in this OPH Good Housekeeping naan bread recipe is to remove the film and brush the tops with cold water and grill for 6 minutes, turning them once. N.B.When grilling don’t place them on the top shelf as they have a habit of rising and will otherwise have their tops burnt. In addition to this seeing that you’re cooking in bulk you’ll only be able to do 5-10 naans at a time, so you may want to take this into account when planning how much time you’ll need to dedicate to the process.

That’s it, now don’t you agree that is an easy naan bread recipe?

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