Home Made Naan Bread

oHUTCHYo · 5 Oct 2015 at 10:47

After playing around with pizza dough this past year and being reasonably happy with my attempts, I fancy having a go at Naan.

The typical supermarket varieties are a far cry from what you get in your local restaurant and are often very "cakey", lacking the lovely taste and texture.

From my limited reading so far, the main challenge is the lack of a tandoor oven. I've seen a few different methods, some being placing directly on the hob itself, with others seeing you turn the pan upside down over the hob. Likewise for ingredients there appears to be a wide range of suggestions, including the natural yoghurt and honey.

So, anyone have any tried and tested recipes and methods?

FrenchTart · 5 Oct 2015 at 10:55

Some interesting stuff here:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/08/the-food-lab-how-to-sort-of-make-naan-at-home.html

I plan on trying to make some with my pizza oven. I've made it using the cast iron baking sheet and grill method before - it was pretty damn tasty but there wasn't enough heat really.

oHUTCHYo · 5 Oct 2015 at 11:52

Looks like the one to try, though I'll be using a cast iron skillet I think

the-evaluator · 5 Oct 2015 at 12:28

I've had good results cooking them on a pizza stone with the oven at full whack. I'll see if I can find the recipe we use, I remember it has natural yogurt in but no honey.

oneilldo · 5 Oct 2015 at 14:44

I make it regularly just using the recipe that came with the bread maker (maybe adding or rolling in some garlic/corriander as well). The recipe is
1/2 tsp yeast
250g strong bread flour
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp veg oil,
2 tbsp natural yoghurt
100ml water.

I usually put it under a really hot grill on a really hot tray but need to get a cast iron pizza stone. Its loads better than all the ones you can buy from the super market, better than a few of the local indians round here but not quite on par with some which mainly is down to not having a tandoor at home.

rexehuk · 5 Oct 2015 at 20:19

oHUTCHYo said:
From my limited reading so far, the main challenge is the lack of a tandoor

Make your own, for easily less than £20.

For example > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXXamj8lV4

randomshenans · 5 Oct 2015 at 20:40

Mmmmm naan breads. Anyone used http://www.greatcurryrecipes.net/ he does some amazing stuff. My wife does some of his stuff and it's immense.

Willyeckerslike · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:30

This is by far the best way to make naan in the home without a tandoor. I have tried all ways and this one is brilliant.

http://bircurries.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=901 (you might have to join to see the video)

Well worth the effort,

oHUTCHYo · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:45

I went through the effort of registering but then you need to make several posts to even view that particular sub-forum - sigh.

Willyeckerslike · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:50

Only 3 posts, I am sure a guy with 1904 on here could manage that

oHUTCHYo · 6 Oct 2015 at 12:58

Willyeckerslike said:
Only 3 posts, I am sure a guy with 1904 on here could manage that

...1904 since 2005 lol

Only messing, yeah it looks a good forum actually, worth having a good look round thank you

FrenchTart · 6 Oct 2015 at 14:30

Willyeckerslike said:
This is by far the best way to make naan in the home without a tandoor. I have tried all ways and this one is brilliant.

http://bircurries.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=901 (you might have to join to see the video)

Well worth the effort,

Is the video on YouTube? Can you just direct link it?

Willyeckerslike · 7 Oct 2015 at 11:55

Unfortunately not, the guy who uploaded it had a hissy fit and deleted it. But he did say we could use all his videos on the curry forum, so we made copies

Edit, the video is back up lol,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypVcrfz6dk

rexehuk · 8 Oct 2015 at 16:52

Willyeckerslike said:
Unfortunately not, the guy who uploaded it had a hissy fit and deleted it. But he did say we could use all his videos on the curry forum, so we made copies

Edit, the video is back up lol,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypVcrfz6dk

That is the best home naan I've ever seen... excellent video.

Makes me think no point in building my oven now!

FrenchTart · 8 Oct 2015 at 17:21

Just watched the start. That's a strong accent

FrenchTart · 8 Oct 2015 at 17:33

Eeeee 'appen 'e makes a nice bit of naaaaarn bread.

Don't be thinkin' "oh noooo, it's too draaaai. I've got t' add more waturrrrrr"

rexehuk · 8 Oct 2015 at 19:14

FrenchTart said:
Eeeee 'appen 'e makes a nice bit of naaaaarn bread.

Don't be thinkin' "oh noooo, it's too draaaai. I've got t' add more waturrrrrr"

I didn't want to make fun... but yeah I was sat here thinking will I ever actually see the recipe?

FrenchTart · 8 Oct 2015 at 19:58

rexehuk said:
I didn't want to make fun... but yeah I was sat here thinking will I ever actually see the recipe?

Yeah. I felt bad about it but I also really really struggled to make it all the way through

The results looked damn good though.

BriT · 8 Oct 2015 at 20:08

Meh i let the pros do it lol

rexehuk · 8 Oct 2015 at 20:55

FrenchTart said:
Yeah. I felt bad about it but I also really really struggled to make it all the way through

The results looked damn good though.

Race you to the naan! I'm going to make it next Monday, shall post results here. Only thing is, my tawa is alum + non stick so hopefully the naan sticks to it...