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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Whole Wheat Naan Healthy Naan Recipe

Whole Wheat Naan

Ingredients

Whole wheat flour / Atta flour - 4 cups

Thick Curd - 4 tbsp

Warm milk - 1/2 cup

Dry yeast - 2 tbsp

Sugar - 1 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Water if required

Garnish: Butter, Chopped garlic, Chopped coriander, Sesame seeds etc to spread over Naan

Naan with Atta Flour

Method

In a bowl add yeast & sugar to warm milk and mix well.

Cover the bowl and set aside to rest until the yeast in milk ferments and becomes frothy.

In a large bowl add flour, salt, curd and fermented milk.

Mix the flour and knead dough well for 7 mins until dough becomes soft.

Cover the dough in the bowl with damp cloth and set aside for atleast 4 hours or until the dough to raise & double in size.

Once naan dough doubles in size divide the dough into equal sized balls.

Roll the dough into oval triangular shapes.( to get the oval triangular shape of naan, first roll the dough in oval shape then at one oval end roll the dough in opposite direction so that one end gets wider and other end gets narrow).

Pre-heat oven to 180C to 200C depending on your oven, place the rolled naan on greased cookie sheet.

Place the cookie sheet in the top rack of the oven and bake for 3 mins on each side or until golden bubbles appear on top of naan.

Transfer the baked naan to a plate and generously spread butter on top on hot naan.

Serve hot butter naan with palak paneer, butter chicken etc.

Tips

While finally rolling out naan sprinkle chopped garlic and coriander for garlic naan or sprinkle chopped dried fruits and nuts for Kashmiri naan or sprinkle some sesame seeds to keep it humble.

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Lamb Naan Calzone

Regular readers of my blog will know that I like to use up my left overs. On Friday night we had Lamb Curry which had been made from the left overs of the lamb leg we had at Easter and had frozen. There was some of the curry still left from last night, so I decided to make it into a kind of pasty for lunch. I was going to make pastry, but forgot to defrost the butter so, with a bit of lateral thinking, I thought Naan - pizza - calzone!

Naan Calzone

1 tsp dried yeast
125ml milk
250g strong white flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/1 tsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp yogurt
15g butter

I made my dough in the bread maker on dough setting, which involves throwing everything in there and switching on. However, if you want to do it the hard way, its just a basic white bread but with milk and yogurt as the liquid.

Once the dough is made, split it in two and roll out into a large round.

Add the filling (anything will do, mine was leftover lamb curry, but whatever you have) and then fold over and crimp the edge.

Leave to rise in a warm place for about 30-40 mintues. Pre-heat the oven to 200C, put the Naan Calzone into the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with a tomato, cucumber and red onion salad.

If anything I think I probably made the Naan Calzone too big, there was too much bread and not enough filling, dividing the dough into three would probably be better and would provide a better balance of filling to bread.