Butter Naan Recipe, Tandoori Naan Recipe

Step by step butter naan recipe

Butter Naan recipe is a leavened oven baked Indian flat bread popular in India as well as whole world. We go to any Indian restaurant and look at menu, we find Naan mentioned where all flat breads are listed in menu. It is a perfect combination to order with any type of curry.

Butter Naan is fundamentally different from another very popular Indian flat bread called Chapati. Traditionally butter naan bread is cooked in a tandoor that is clay oven from which tandoori cooking takes its name while Chapati is cooked directly over flames using a pan.

Meanwhile check these indian breads recipe

1. Roti recipe, Phulka recipe

2. Makki di roti

For traditionally cooking Naan, oval shaped dough is slapped against the wall of extremely hot tandoor where it would bake and fall into the fire once cooked. Picked up by large tongs and then buttered.

Another fundamental difference between Naan and Chapati is that dough for Naan is fermented for around 4 hours while chapati are cooked from freshly prepared dough. Naan are soft, fluffy yet crisp from outside.

You would be thinking that you don’t have tandoor, then how would you prepare Naan at home. We don’t really need tandoor for making Naan, we can use the oven at home for making it. You will see how in step by step method below

This butter naan recipe is simple just measure ingredients and follow the steps.

Ingredients

1 Cup All purpose flour/ Maida
½ Teaspoon Active dry yeast
A pinch of Baking soda
1 Tablespoon Oil
1½ Tablespoon Yogurt/Curd
½  Teaspoon  Salt
½  Teaspoon Sugar
¾ cup Hot water
½  Teaspoon nigella seeds(kalonji) – Optional

How to make butter naan recipe step by step

Making dough

Step 1. Pour hot water into a small bowl and stir in the yeast. Cover and let it sit for about 10 minutes till it has a nice layer of foam at the top.

Step 2. In another large mixing bowl, sift dry ingredients all purpose flour(maida), baking soda, salt, and sugar.

Step 3. In the mixture prepared in step2, add yogurt and oil.

Step 4. Rub flour with the help of fingers thoroughly , mixture will start turning into crumble like texture. When the hot water and yeast mixture from step1 gets foamy, add it to the flour gradually.

Step 5.Initially dough becomes rough in texture but when you knead it for 5 more minutes it should become soft.  Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and pliable.

Resting the dough

Step 6. Smear oil all over the dough,then put it in lightly floured bowl. Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave in a warm place for at least 2 hours , or until doubled in size.(4 hours is recommended)

Rolling the naan 

Step 8. Once the dough is rise in step6 then knead it for another 5 minutes. Divide it into 4 equal parts and roll them into ball shape. Dust dough balls and roll each ball into oval shape, roughly 1½cm thick.

Step 9. Once rolled, sprinkle over nigella seeds (kalonji) and press into the surface of the dough. This step is Optional.

Baking naan

Step 10. Open the oven door, place the naan on the hot baking tray and quickly close the door. Grill for just 1-2 minutes. Naan will start getting bubbles all over. Take it out when it gets lightly browned patches. Brush with butter. Delicious butter naan bread is ready to serve.

You can serve it with Paneer Butter Masala, Kadai Paneer Recipe Restaurant Style, Kadai Mushroom Recipe and Mushroom butter masala

Recipe card – butter naan recipe

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Naan recipe, How to make Naan at home | Homemade Naan bread

Prep Time

2 hrs 10 mins

Cook Time

8 mins

Total Time

2 hrs 18 mins

 

Butter Naan recipe is a leavened oven baked Indian flat bread popular in India as well as whole world.

Course: Sides

Cuisine: Indian

Servings: 4 Naan

Author: Rachna's kitchen

Ingredients

• 1 Cup All purpose flour/ Maida
• ½ Teaspoon Active dry yeast
• A pinch of Baking soda
• 1 Tablespoon Oil
• 1½ Tablespoon
• Yogurt/Curd
• ½ Teaspoon Salt
• ½ Teaspoon Sugar
• ¾ cup Hot water
• ½ Teaspoon nigella seeds kalonji - Optional

Instructions

1. Pour hot water into a small bowl and stir in the yeast. Cover and let it sit for about 10 minutes till it has a nice layer of foam at the top.
2. In another large mixing bowl, sift dry ingredients all purpose flour(maida), baking soda, salt, and sugar.
3. In the mixture prepared in step2, add yogurt and oil.
4. Rub flour with the help of fingers thoroughly , mixture will start turning into crumble like texture. When the hot water and yeast mixture from step1 gets foamy, add it to the flour
5. gradually.
6. Initially dough becomes rough in texture but when you knead it for 5 more minutes
7. it should become soft.
8. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and pliable.
9. Smear oil all over the dough,then put it in lightly floured bowl. Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave in a warm place for at least 2 hours , or until doubled in size.(4 hours is recommended)
10. Preheat the oven to the highest temprature for 15 minutes with a pizza stone or heavy baking tray on the upper shelf.
11. Once the dough is risen in step6 then knead it for another 5 minutes. Divide it into 4 equal parts and roll them into ball shape. Dust dough balls and roll each ball into oval shape, roughly 1½cm thick.
12. Once rolled, sprinkle over nigella seeds (kalonji) and press into the surface of the dough. This step is Optional.
13. Open the oven door, place the naan on the hot baking tray and quickly close the door. Grill for just 1-2 minutes. Naan will start getting bubbles all over. Take it out when it gets lightly browned patches. Brush with butter. Delicious butter naan bread is ready to serve.