Does anyone have a recipe for a fluffy, melt in the mouth, naan bread, that I can cook at home???
Mouth is watering, waiting for a reply.
Does anyone have a recipe for a fluffy, melt in the mouth, naan bread, that I can cook at home???
Mouth is watering, waiting for a reply.
depends, do you have a bread machine? Do you have a hot oven and/or pizza stone?
What do you mean by melt-in-the-mouth? If bread melted in your mouth it wouldn't cook very well!
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I don't have bread machine or pizza stone but I have a tandoori oven.
Not, just dreamin...... I can go hunting for them tomorrow. Do I need both?
(it's sale time, lots of bargains)
You don't need a bread machine, but being a lazy bugger my naan recipe i've made/adpated from traditional uses one. I wouldn't suggest buying one just to try out my recipe thou
Naan, like a lot of breads does best in a hot oven, although you also for best results need to quickly grill naan after cooking to help develop the outside's black bits (if you don't it still tastes great, but looks more like a big flat bread roll). Pizza stones are useful for making a lot of breads with (not just pizza), so if you see one going cheap they're worth having. They're made from the same material as traditional italian ovens, retain heat very well and draw away excess moisture to stop things going soggy.
There's a lot of naan recipes out there on the net. I'd suggest finding a good indian site (as opposed to some crap like vegweb or an american site), then susbtitute margerine for (clarified) butter, plain soy yoghurt for dairy yoghurt and golden syrup for honey. That's the way I adapted mine and it works fine. If you see a recipe that calls for eggs then avoid it, naan shouldn't have and doesn't need egg. The yoghurt helps keep it flatterer and gives it a slight creamy taste/texture. Margerine/vegetable ghee works fine instead of butter. Honey has no special properties over golden syrup, other than a slightly different taste. White bread (high gluten) flour is preferable over plain white flour. Failing that i can post my recipe when i'm home from work.
Black onion seeds are worth getting if you can find them. A lot of naan recipes call for them and they do make a difference. Garlic and corriander is my all time favourite, although next time i make them i'm going to try veganising peshwari.
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If Jacqui has a tandoori oven would it just not be easier for her to do the naan bread in the traditional manner of cooking it on wall of the tandoor?? (Although as you say a pizza stone would come in useful for other things too! )
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Here's a recipe I found:
http://www.earth.li/~kake/cookery/recipes/naan.html
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Well, I took this to mean she already had oneJacqui
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Sorry for the misunderstanding, I dont have a tandoori oven. That was why I put "not, just dreamin". I was being silly.
Thanks for the link cvC.
Mr Fibble, thanks for the advice on what to substitute, and the tip about the pizza stone.
I'll keep you posted on how my bread turns out.
I purchased a large rectangular stone (they were out of smaller, round ones). It was on a half price sale, I paid, $12.50 aus.
Thought that was a bargain!
Also got yeast and flour, and will try at the markets tomorrow for the onion seeds.
Quick question: I thought naan was supposed to be a sweet bread, but the onion, etc. clearly defies that in my mind. Could someone pleasse try to explain that flavour of naan?
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NaanZanahorias!
It's a fairly flavourless flatbread, used as an accompaniment to curry or soup. I guess you could add sweet ingrediants to it, but generally this isn't the case. Peshwari naan generally has coconut and raisins, so could be classified as slightly sweet. Garlic and corriander is a lot more common, as is plain with just black onion seeds. Keema naan is stuffed with spicy meat and from memory very tasty - will hafta try veganising it at some point.
Oh, and black onion seeds don't taste of onion
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I found onion seeds at the markets this morning. They are labelled as 'nigella".Mr Flibble
Used my stone to make a very tasty, vegan pizza last night.
Thanks so much for your cooking tips.
My naan question should have gone in the "vegan Indian/curry', thread,
Sorry, maybe it can be moved.
MMmmm, sounds yummy.
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No problem, glad you got a good dealJacqui
I searched for about a year for a pizza stone (no major chain stores in the UK seem to sell them and it's a bit hit and miss in independant stores), then finally when i found a shop selling them they had a choice of 3, all on offer! So i got mine for about the same price as yours
They're well worth having - I have no idea why they arn't more popular
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I haven't tried these, but here are some vegan naan recipes found via Google:
Homemade Vegan Naan from Veg Cooking Blog
Best Healthy Vegan Indian Naan (Or Garlic Naan) Bread! from recipezaar.com
Naan Bread with Garlic and Coriander from vegan-food.net
Naan Bread from postpunkkitchen
Vegan naan from The Innocent Primate Vegan Blog
Naan Bread with Garlic and Coriander from nikibone.com
Vegan Naan Bread myveganplanet.com
Naan from vegweb.com. These are is also from vegweb.com
Naan
Grilled Naan
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I completely forgot this thread existed
My recipes:
Peshwari Naan
Keema Naan
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