In Indian cuisine, there are some dishes like north indian curries or paneer curries ideally served along with indian flat bread/Roti prepared on tawa with all purpose flour or wheat flour for lunch or dinner.
Today’s recipe is of the most popular naan. It is made from scratch at home without yeast and egg and simply made over your stove top. Naan is made with plain flour, milk and secret ingredient to give it a slight rise and puff the baking powder. Super soft, fluffy, buttery and a sure shot hit amongst your guest. Let’s get cooking!
Tawa Naan Recipe
Print RecipeIngredients
- 2 ½ cups Maida (Refined flour)
- ¾ Milk to knead the dough (as required)
- 3 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Water for spreading on naan
- Butter for spreading on naan (optional)
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl take milk, oil, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix all the ingredients very well until the sugar has dissolved.
- Now add 2½ cups maida, first mix everything and then begin to knead to make a soft dough, use milk as required.
- Once done cover the dough with a moist cloth and keep aside for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes the dough will be ready to roll.
- Make 8-12 smaller sized balls from the dough. Flatten slightly and sprinkle some flour on the dough as well as on the rolling board and then cover the balls with a moist cloth and set aside.
- Gently roll to oval shape using rolling pin. Make sure you do not make too thin nor thick and also keep the size in mind. it should not be larger than your tawa size.
- Dip your fingers in plain water and grease with water over naan.
To Cook Naan
- Preheat the iron tawa, slowly flip over and put it on hot tawa and slightly press, water side down, cook it over high heat for 30 seconds.
- Flip the tawa upside down and cook naan directly on flame till they turn golden brown. You can flip again and press the edges for even cooking.
- Remove the naan and place it on a serving plate, spread some butter or oil all over the naan. Tawa Naan is ready. Similarly make the other remaining naan.
Serve
Finally, serve hot butter naan with your favourite curry dish like mattar paneer, malai kofta, dal tadka or dal makhani.
Notes
- Do not use baking soda only use baking powder for this recipe.
- The quantity of the naan depends on the size of the dough you make.
- In this recipe do not use water to knead the dough, only use milk as required.
- If the naan puffs up while cooking then just make a hole and deflate it.
- Furthermore, roll to any desired shape. however, i like to keep it oval as it looks similar to the one served in restaurants.