Super Easy Naan Bread

Chef #1131079's Note:

My usual naan recipe calls for milk and an egg, but since I had neither in the house tonight, I improvised. This is a super simple 5-ingredient naan bread and it came out great!

• Total Time: 55 mins
• Prep Time: 45 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 8

Yield: 8.0 pieces

• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups flour, plus a few tbsp for workspace

Directions:

1. Combine warm water, sugar, and yeast in a bowl. Let stand for 5 minutes until foamy.
2. Add salt and flour. Mix thoroughly. Knead dough on a floured workspace about 20 times and form into a tight ball. Put dough in a well oiled bowl and cover with a damp towel.
3. Put in a warm place to rise for 30-45 minutes. Dough won't rise much, but it doesn't need to.
4. Turn dough out onto a floured workspace. Divide dough into 8 pieces and roll out with a rolling pin to about 1/8" thick.
5. Grill naan pieces on a grill or electric griddle. In a pinch, a frying pan sprayed with some nonstick cooking spray will work. Grill for 1-2 minutes on each side.
6. This recipe yields a very soft, chewey naan. Just the way I like it!

Reviews

[greygardener]

This was delicious andsuper easy!!! I made this for some friends to accompany Pakistani Dhal and one of the dinner guest said it tasted like the bread he ate in the Middle East.
I will be making this bread often.
Very good and very easy!

[beckagator]

I too had the same issue with the flour and ended up adding almost another cup, I subbed about a cup and a half of the all purpose flour with some whole wheat flour, which gave it a nice texture. make ping pong ball sized pieces and roll them out flat and it makes about 16, but if you stack the uncooked Naan be sure there is plenty of flour between them, or they will become one very thick Naan. Also if you make them in a pan, make sure to get your pan nice and hot before you start, at a medium-high heat, they puff up nicer when the pan is preheated. Very nice and very easy. Vegan friendly as well.

[Jay3fer]

Good basic pareve (non-meat, non-dairy) naan recipe to come back to again and again. Completely unseasoned, it's simply the perfect accompaniment to any Indian meal. My family tends to like Pooris more (same idea, only deep-fried!), but they readily accepted these hot, fresh and delicious naan instead! Like a previous reviewer, I had a very wet dough when I dumped in all the water (I used a food processor to mix and knead), and added perhaps half a cup of extra flour to compensate (it was still on the moist side). I use a standard weight of 135g of all-purpose flour per cup. In any recipe where you're measuring the flour in cups instead of weighing it, you're going to get inconsistencies. p.s. Makes plenty for 10-12 nice thin pan-sized Naan.