Make your individual Indian flatbreads at house and also you'll by no means return to purchasing them. Scrumptious eaten heat, these naans are excellent served together with your favorite curry

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:20 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:35 minutes
  • plus rising and proving
• Extra effort
• Serves 6 – 8

• Vegetarian

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Components

• 1x 7g sachet dried yeast
• 2 tsp golden caster sugar
• 300g sturdy white bread flour, plus further for dusting
• ½ tsp baking powder
• 25g butter or ghee, melted, plus further 2-3 tbsp for the tray and brushing
• 150ml pure yogurt
• 1 tbsp nigella seeds

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Technique

• STEP 1

  Put 125ml heat water right into a bowl and sprinkle over the yeast and 1 tsp of the sugar. Go away for 10-15 minutes or till frothy. In a bigger bowl, put the flour, remaining sugar, ½ tsp salt and baking powder. Combine collectively then make a effectively within the centre wherein to pour the melted butter, yogurt, nigella seeds and yeast combination. Stir effectively, then begin to convey the combination collectively together with your palms. If it’s very moist add a spoonful of flour but when it’s dry add a splash extra heat water. It must be a really gentle dough however not so moist that it received’t come collectively right into a ball.

• STEP 2

  Whenever you’re pleased with the consistency, begin kneading, first within the bowl, then switch the combination onto a well-floured floor and proceed to knead for 10 minutes or till clean and elastic however nonetheless gentle. Butter a big bowl, then form the dough right into a ball and place within the ready bowl. Cowl and depart in a heat place for about 1 hr or till doubled in dimension.

• STEP 3

  Divide the dough into six balls and put them on a baking tray dusted with flour, then cowl the tray with a humid tea towel. Warmth a big non-stick frying pan over a excessive warmth. Take one of many balls of dough and roll it out to kind a teardrop form that’s roughly 21cm lengthy and round 13cm on the widest half. When the pan could be very scorching, rigorously lay the naan bread into it. Let it dry fry and puff up for about 3 minutes, then flip over and cook dinner on the opposite aspect for an additional 3-4 minutes or till cooked by and charred in patches.

• STEP 4

  Warmth the oven to its lowest setting and put the cooked naan bread on a baking sheet. Brush with a bit of melted butter and canopy with foil. Preserve heat within the oven and layer up the cooked naans one on prime of one another as you make them, brushing each with melted butter or ghee as you go. Serve heat with curry or dips.