Butter Garlic Naan (Spicy Indian Flat Bread)

Intro: Butter Garlic Naan (Spicy Indian Flat Bread)

I am so excited to share this restaurant style Butter Garlic Naan recipe with you guys!

Guys, I tried this recipe few days ago at an Indian restaurant. I remember the day the amazing texture this flatbread had, I could barely keep up with my excitement to try this at home. The reason was that these garlic naan turned out so good, like way beyond my expectations when i tried at home and I was so thrilled with the results that I wanted to share it on Instructables immediately!

This recipe of Garlic Naan is the only recipe of naan that you will ever need, I promise!

STEP 1: Watch the Video

STEP 2: Grate Garlic Into Fine Parts

The main star ingredient for our Garlic Naan is Garlic, which give a very aromatic and slightly tangy and smooth texture to our dish, so we will prepare it for our recipe.

Steps:

• Take 7-8 Cloves of Garlic.
• Peel the skin of Garlic Cloves.
• Grate garlic with the help of a grater and store in dry place.

STEP 3: Prepare the Dough

In this step, we will prepare Dough for our Naan!

Steps:

1. In a large bowl, take 2 cups of plain flour (maida).
2. Add salt as per taste and 1 tbsp sugar.
3. Mix the flour.
4. Add 1/2 cup of fresh thick curd.
5. Add 2 tbsp of vegetable oil.
6. Add 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
7. Add1/4 tsp of baking soda.
8. Add half of the grated garlic we prepared in step 1.
9. Knead into a soft dough with luke warm water. (don't knead the dough too hard).
10. Grease your hands with oil and knead the dough with your greased hands for a min.

The dough is fluffy and soft and it is ready. Keep the kneaded dough aside for 10-15 minutes and let it set. Let's move on to the next step.

STEP 4: Prepare the Naan

Before Roasting the Naan, we need to do few preparative steps.

1. Take a small portion of dough and make a ball.
2. Sprinkle some dry flour and roll the dough in a round or oval shape.
3. Add some grated garlic, chopped coriander leaves (cilantro) and Nigella over the top surface of the naan.
4. Press over with the rolling pin so that everything sticks to the naan and flip the naan over.
5. Brush some water on the naan.

STEP 5: Roast It on Stove

I made this garlic naan on stove-top (tawa). Traditionally naan (Indian Flatbread) is made is made in a tandoor (clay oven) but at home, I prefer the stove-top method. You can bake them in oven but I think they are so much softer and better when cooked on stove-top. Also, I highly recommend cooking these on a cast iron skillet.

• Heat a tawa (skillet) at Medium Flame.
• Place the wet surface of the naan on the hot iron tawa /skillet.
• After a min you will see small bubbles on the naan, Once you see the bubbles, turn over the skillet directly over the flame and cook until brows spots appear.

The naan won't fall and remain attach to the skillet because we have applied water to it

STEP 6: Add Butter to Naan

After roasting the naan, we are almost done, at this point we can add butter on the front portion of naan to make its texture even more soft. This is yet an optional step, you can go with more desi approach and add Desi Ghee instead of butter or even skip this step depending on your personal choice.

STEP 7: Ready!

Final Thoughts on this Homemade Garlic Butter Naan?

• It's just like the one at your favorite restaurant!
• It's easy to make at home with basic pantry ingredients.
• Tastes great with dal makhani or paneer tikka masala.
• It's packed with all the goodness of garlic.
• Costs way less than buying naan from stores!

I had so much fun making this garlic naans at home. The thing with naan is that once you get the hang of it, you would never want to buy one from store. You know those rubbery, stretchy frozen naans that you get at stores? Seriously yuck! Plus, costly too!

On the other hand these homemade garlic naan are soft, with amazing Garlic Aroma sweet and spot on! You would have a hard time keeping your hands off them!

Serve it hot with any North Indian gravy like Paneer Butter masala, Chicken Curry or any gravy curry (sabzi) you like! And don't forget to sprinkle more butter or Coriander (cilantro), you know more the merrier!

Comments

[ELECTRONFLYER1]

I DO NOT HAVE GAS STOVE MINE IS A CERAMIC TOP ELECTRIC HOW SHOULD I COOK THE NAAN?

[TheHandCraftHob]

Cast iron frying pan works very well too.

[akshaymomaya]

you can cook it in Electric too, to make that brown naan effect, you can use a Butane Torch and give it a good burnt texture.

[cchaney.sfsu]

What is fresh curd?

[akshaymomaya]

its basically homemade yogurt, use plain unflavored yogurt.

[cchaney.sfsu]

Thanks!

[Ronna Farley]

I enjoyed your video and seeing the recipe! I assume curd is sour cream and Nigella is black sesame seed. I have an electric oven but I would still like to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing it!

[niitiinnegi]

Dahi or Curd is the Indian names given to the Yogurt. While our version of Yogurt (Curd) is not that thick.
Curd is made using the milk and fermented milk. While sour cream is made with fermented cream.

I would suggest to use Yogurt that should serve the purpose better.

[akshaymomaya]

yes you are absolutely correct, yogurt is better.

unflavored yogurt should work just fine as well, you don't need to learn making curd, since the purpose of using curd here is to softening the dough and basically supporting the yeast to catalyze the process of dough. yet, as you mentioned yogurt is better since it has more protein contain than curd.

[Microbe]

Curd is actually yoghurt

[akshaymomaya]

yes, indeed!

[akshaymomaya]

yes curd is sour cream, but in India, its referred to as "Dahi" or "Curd" and yes Nigella is "Black Sesame seeds" sorry for the confusion, these are few terms which we use in India!
And i am very glad that you liked my post!
Thank you for giving it a read.

[gtoal]

Glad you posted that clarification, I was on the verge of substituting Nutella :-)

[meraki]

Haha.. Not a bad idea, but only if you skip garlic and substitutute it (nutellea) for butter.

[akshaymomaya]

It started as a joke but now it looks and sounds like a legit new fusion dish :P

[akshaymomaya]

Even if you did, wont that be sick to add Nutella on naan, infact i would love to try that

[george85580]

I thought Novella was black onion seeds not sesame

[AsiaEllen]

I love Indian food, cooking it and trying new flavors. I'm going to be trying theses soon but I do have some comments and questions.

Usually in South East Asian cookery "curd" is yogurt. "Curd" was traditionally made at home. "Sour cream" as sold in US is not readily available in India. Is curd in this recipe actually yogurt?

Black Sesame seeds are not Nigella seeds. Sesame seeds could be used but would be more decorative than impart a flavor. Nigella has a special flavor and are often referred to as kalonji if you go to an Indian grocery store. https://www.foodrepublic.com/2016/11/21/everything...

I've recently found a packaged Besan (chick pea flour) spiced naan from Canada in multi-ethnic grocery store in California. They are amazing but hard to find. Can I substitute half chick pea flour in this recipe?

Thank you

[akshaymomaya]

the main purpose of curd isn't for flavor, its related to texture and overall softness of naan, for that matter you can use Yogurt, you see how we added 1 spoon of sugar, its because we used homemade curd, which is slightly sour. if you use yogurt, dial down sugar to 1/3 tbsp.

and yes, use Kalonji for the following benefits.

NO dont use besan, we use besan for more over deep fried items, plus it gets too dry, i mean the naan wont have the soft texture and after roasting, it will just a huge brownish orange mess, try maida ( All purpose flour).

i hope this helps? if you have any more questions, do mention, i would be very happy to answer them!

[george85580]

What do you mean by curd