Recipe: Garlic Naan

Garlic Naan
rec.food.recipes/Dennis De St Jeor/1998

This is a pain but really worth it.

2/3 cup warm water
1 tsp dry yeast
1 tsp sugar
2 cups plain flour
1 tsp salt
2 Tbsp ghee (Clarified Butter) it's worth it to look for the actual ghee. It's got a great nutty flavour and makes the naan taste fantastic.
2 Tbsp garlic butter
2 Tbsp yogurt (Greek style. tends to be thinner than Dannon/Yoplait style eating yogurts.)
2 tsp Kalonji (black onion seeds)...a good baker can find some for you if you don't have any luck.

Dissolve yeast and sugar in the water stirring lightly. Let it stand in the bowl for 10 minutes or so.

Sift the flour then add it and the salt in a large bowl. The throw in the yeast water, half of the ghee and all of the yogurt. Mix until it's a soft dough then knead it for a bit with a little bit of flour (just enough to keep it from sticking). When it's really smooth, put it aside in a greased bowl, cover it with a small towel and let it rise for about 1.5 hours or until it's doubled.

Beat the dough down then knead it again with a little bit of flour for about 5 minutes. Then just select how big you want the naan then roll it into small tortilla like shapes.

The hard part...cooking: Cover an oven tray with foil and cover it lightly with some Crisco or other type of cooking grease. Put it under your grill (Hottest setting possible) and cook it until it starts to brown and bubble. When it starts to bubble and brown, pull it out quickly and brush it with garlic butter and sprinkle some of the Onion Seeds on it...then put it back and grill for about another 30 seconds.

If you don't have a grill, you can trying pan frying it in a pan with garlic butter or ghee to keep it from sticking. This is actually more like Bhatura (which I like better anyway) but not quite as greasy or deep fried. But it you have a grill, then that's definitely the way to go or if you can build yourself a Tandoori Oven, you'll be set :)