Easy & Authentic Naan Bread

Name: Easy & Authentic Naan Bread
Ingredients: 400 grams All-purpose flour (or 1/2 bread flour and 1/2 cake flour); 1 tsp Salt; 240 ml Lukewarm water, about 38C; 1 tbsp Honey (or sugar); 2 tbsp Olive oil; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 1 tsp Baking powder

7 ingredients

10 steps

Ingredients

400 grams All-purpose flour (or 1/2 bread flour and 1/2 cake flour)
1 tsp Salt
240 ml Lukewarm water, about 38C
1 tbsp Honey (or sugar)
2 tbsp Olive oil
2 tsp Dry yeast
1 tsp Baking powder

Directions

1

Put the all purpose flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl and mix together (no need to sift.)
2

Add the honey and dry yeast to the lukewarm water, and mix well.
3

Put the liquid into the bowl from Step 1, and mix it up using cooking chopsticks.
4

Add the olive oil, and kneed the dough in the bowl with your hand.
5

Bring together in a ball (it's okay if it doesn't come together quite as neatly as it does when making normal bread).
6

Cover the bowl with a tightly wrung out moistened kitchen towel, and use your microwave's bread-rising setting to let the dough rise for 30 minutes.
7

(In the summer you can just leave the dough out to rise at room temperature.)
8

Dust the dough with just enough flour so that the knife doesn't stick to it, and cut it into 8 portions.
9

Roll each portion of dough out thinly, and place on a sheet of aluminium foil that's been lightly spread with olive oil.
10

Cool the naan one at a time on a preheated oven grill set to the highest setting, 20 to 30 seconds at a time to finish.