Flatbread
Cooking time
Prep: 20 mins - 7 hrs, 10 mins Cook: 15 mins Plus 1 hour 10 minutes proving. cook in batchesSkill level
Moderately easyServings
Makes 8 breadsAuthentic Indian flatbreads (naan) can be shallow fried or baked - they cook in just 15 mins
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition
- kcalories
- 255
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 48g
- fat
- 5g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 1.3g
Ingredients
- 500g strong white flour
- 2 tsp salt
- 7g sachet fast-action yeast
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 300ml water
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Method
- Mix the flour, salt, yeast and oil in a large bowl and add enough water to make a soft, but not sloppy, dough. Knead well. Put into a lightly oiled bowl to rise for 1 hr until doubled in size.
- Divide the dough into 8 pieces, about 250g each, and use a rolling pin to flatten each one into a circle, 15cm in diameter, about 1cm thick. Then leave the pieces on a lightly floured baking tray to prove for 5 mins. Heat a large frying pan to a medium heat and dry-fry each piece until browned on both sides, about 5 mins in total. Set aside to cool slightly before serving.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2005
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
To all those who said you didn't get the right quantity, I used warm water plus put it in my oven on "proofing" while I got on with my root vegetable and lentil casserole. (also from goodfood). I got exactly as it said. I made half with coriander and half with coriander and garlic. I cooked one at a time then put in a warm oven with a knob of butter on each. It was very good.
These were fab. I dry fried them on the hob then kept them warm on a pizza stone in the oven. I maybe had the oven temperature a bit high as some of them went a bit crispy by the time we ate them. But it wasn't too much of a problem as we had them as an accompaniment to Nigella Lawson's keema curry and could use them to scoop up the mince. Lovely!
I agree these are way better than shop bought Naan.
I have made them several times and they always go down well. Although I once added coriander and garlic to the mix and they didnt come out so well, not sure why.I am usually quite a messy cook when it comes to dough-type things, but I managed to to stay clean with this recipe
Made these completely by hand to go with grilled lamb at a BBQ
Were loved by all and were perfect size for that type of eating.
Had to add a little more flour as mixture was sloppy. Took the tips from other comments and rolled out as thin as i could. Cooked really well - would add black pepper, a little more salt and some garlic and coriander to add flavour as were a little bland for me.
I made this to compliment a fish curry. It was easy to make but I would agree with others in that the dough you are left with (after an hour) isn't enough to make 8 x 250g pieces. Also I heeded others advice and chose to roll thinner than 1 cm - a good decision as I would have been still cooking them now to get rid of the doughy inside! I made my plain but I would suggest maybe adding extra flavours e.g. garlic/coriander etc.
