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!

Supplies

You can add or subtract the Garlic, Salt according to your preference.

Ingredients:

• 2 Cup Plain flour (all purpose flour commonly called as maida) .
• 1 tsp. Salt.
• 1tsp. Sugar.
• 4 tsp. Butter.
• 7-8 cloves Garlic.
• 10gm Coriander leaves.
• 1/2 tsp. Baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. Baking soda.
• Nigella.
• 2 tsp. Oil.
• 1/2 cup Yogurt.
• Luke warm water.

Nutrition Facts (5 Naans) :

Calories: 295kcal, Carbohydrates: 42g, Protein: 7g, Fat: 10g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 12mg, Sodium: 339mg, Potassium: 104mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 160IU, Vitamin C: 0.2mg, Calcium: 28mg, Iron: 2.4mg.

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!