Name: Garlic Naan
Prep time: 90 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 110 min

We Indians prefer to have breads in our regular meal. There are several Indian origin bread out there. Garlic Naan is one of them, it happens to be one of my favorite Indian bread as well. Mainly I love it for its flavorful taste and smoky garlic flavor.

Naan is a very popular type of Indian Bread. You can definitely find it in any North Indian wedding menu. Even it is a very popular dinner main course in Indian restaurants.

First time, I had naan in one of my neighbor’s wedding, and that was awesome. After that I told my mother many times to make it at home. But it never came out properly.

People love India because of it’s culture, festivals and delicious foods. Even I can say that India is only country where people follow thousand of recipes for a single dish. And that is the uniqueness of India.

We love to eat breads in our lunch and dinner. In that huge bread’s world, you can see normal Chapati, Roti, Paratha, Kulcha, Naan, Thepla, Kachori and many more.

The most attractive part of a Garlic Naan bread is, its sponginess and flavorful smell. I know that everyone loves to eat naan, most cases people refrain to make it at home as it often considered as a difficult recipe.

To make it easy, I am here to share with you my simple Garlic Naan recipe. So let’s jump to the recipe.

INGREDIENTS

*1cup_250ml, *1tbsp._Tablespoon(15 ml) , *1tsp._Teaspoon(5 ml)

All purpose flour – 1 cup
Activated Yeast – 1 tbsp.
Garlic butter – 1 tbsp.
Garlic cloves (chopped) – 1 tbsp.
Coriander leaves (Chopped) – 2 tbsp.
Sugar – 1+1/2 tsp
Water – 1/2 cup
Salt – 1 tsp

Prep Time 1 hr 30 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Total Time 1 hr 50 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Indian

Servings 2 People

Equipment

Oven for baking

Notes

1. Always strain the flour before using it for any recipe. This process will help you to get lumps free flour.

2. To make the dough, use lukewarm water. Lukewarm water means, when you can easily tolerate the temperature of the hot water by your finger.

3. Activated yeast needs warm environment and food to get activated. So don’t boil the water, else your yeast will die. And use sugar as a food of yeast.

4. Try to finely chop the garlic and coriander. So they can easily blend with the naan dough.

5. The most important thing to make naan dough is time. So don’t skip it. 1 hour is highly recommended to rise up the naan dough properly.

6. After kneading the dough, don’t put it inside refrigerator. To ferment, it require wet and warm place.

7. Some oven has mode for fermentation. If you don’t have here is how you can do it yourself. Put your empty oven in convection mode for 2 minutes and then switch it off. Now put the dough inside the oven. In this condition oven holds little higher temperature inside. This process is very helpful to rise up the dough within 40 minutes to 1 hours.

8. I have choose to bake my naans in oven. Instead of baking just cook it like chapati. I would recommend non stick tawa for this. Otherwise it will stick to the tawa.

9. By using the naan dough, I have made 4 large size garlic naans. And it’s enough for 2 people. Don’t increase number of the naans for same amount of dough. Else your naan will get crispy rather than soft and spongy.

Keyword Garlic Naan

How to make garlic naan

Step 1: First we need to activate the yeast. For this, take lukewarm water in a big size bowl. Then add 1 tbsp. of activated yeast and 1+1/2 tsp of sugar into it. Cover it and wait for 2 minutes.

Step 2: Meanwhile finely chop the garlic cloves and coriander leaves. We need very fine chopped garlic and coriander, so you can use your food processor for this.

Step 3: Once the yeast is activated, add flour and salt into it. Use your hand and mix them properly. When you think that it is sticking on your plum, add 1 tbsp of garlic butter, chopped garlic and coriander leaves.

Tips: If you don’t have garlic butter, replace it with normal butter.

Step 4: Now knead it properly for 5 minutes. You can feel that now the dough is not sticking on your plum. It implies that your dough is perfectly made.

Step 5: Put a lid on the bowl and cover the dough. Additionally you can use a wet cloth under the lid. Leave the dough for 1 hour to ferment in a dry and warm place. Don’t disturb it during the fermentation time.

Step 6: After 1 hour, knead the dough again and cut it into 4 pieces. Try to make round shape balls and then brush little oil on top of them.

Step 7: Now take a round ball on the rolling board and give a long naan shape to it. Even you can make round also.

Tips: Before giving them shape, use a wrapping plastic on top of the rolling board and then roll the naan. This process prevent to stick the naan on the board and you can easily make your Garlic naan.

Step 8: Once your all garlic naans are ready, put the oven for preheating at 180° C in convection mode. Put the baking tray inside the oven during the preheating.

Step 9: Now it’s time to put one naan on the hot tray. Put the tray inside the oven and bake it for 4-5 minutes. Follow the process for rest of the Garlic Naans. You can grill it as well for the same amount of time. In that case you will get little burn marks on top of the nuns which actually looks nice.

Step 10: Here is time to brush butter on top of the Garlic Naan. Serve this hot, soft and spongy naans with Matar Paneer or Chole Masala.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is garlic naan made of?

To make Garlic Naan we need very few ingredients. It made with all purpose refine flour, yeast , garlic and water. Use all in a perfect ratio and follow the process of making dough.

What is garlic naan called in India?

In India Garlic Naan is also called as Garlic Naan. Not only in India, you can hear the same name as Garlic Naan in all over the world, if you go to a Indian restaurants.

Is garlic naan good for weight loss?

No, Naan is made with all purpose flour and lots of butter. Butter is full of fat and refine flour is not gluten free. Sometimes it creates problem in digestion. It is not suggested as a weight loss food.

Is naan good to eat?

Naan is not like as other Indian breads. It is more soft, more spongy than other breads. And it also goes well with every kind curry. It tastes great too.

Garlic Naan