Naan recipe/method ideas?

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I've been reading up on naan recipes and fancied experimenting with them a bit. Anyone already an expert on them?

Method of cooking-wise I was considering using something similar to the neapolitan pizza method cooking - i.e. flatten the dough into a heavy pan and stick it under the grill. I'll probably grill it both sides rather than cook it over the hob at all though. I'll also brush both sides with melted butter/ghee as this apparently works nicely.

The recipes I've read are basically a fairly standard bread recipe with the addition of milk, yoghurt and/or egg. In the past I've used yoghurt and milk..and whilst it was okay, it wasn't really 'elasticy' enough so I'm tempted to try egg this time.

For flavour I'll be adding finely chopped garlic and maybe some allspice or nigella seeds.
 
Hmm... So perhaps I should try a very wet dough that I knead with garlic butter (I love garlic so there is literally no such thing as too much imo)...create an oval of it and then throw it onto a pre-heated heavy pan to sear it. I guess it would have to be quite a thin naan to work like this.
 
Well..egg doesn't work :p Or it would if it was in a much lower ratio to the other ingredients than I used.

I also don't think using a hot pan works too well. I have high hopes for a grill/oven mix though (as mentioned above).
 
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