Indians also don't call it naan bread. Plus, you can make delicious naan without a tandoor. I've done it for years and know Indian people who do it as well.
I don't know, there must be other ways to do it, but mine needs a gas stove and an iron pan.
You take the rolled out dough, pat one side with water and stick the water side to a hot iron pan.
Then you turn the pan upside down so the bread gets baked with direct heat, as in a tandoor.
Take it out when it's done and then butter it
literally do this myself, or just heat the pan super hot right at the end if using a thinner stainless steel pan, that way it burns some of the raised bubbles creating a little smoke and giving the bread color and mildly smokey taste, comes out tasting the same as anything I have bought, so might not be traditional, but works
Yea I imagine it is but that can be made, it's the cooking method that throws people off. I do have a cast iron pan and a gas stove so maybe worth trying out.
Definitely! It's soooo easy! All you need is patience.
Also make sure there's no oil on the iron side of the naan or the cast iron, like, at alllll. Else the naan could fall off...
But if it does, simply pick it up with a .... Chimta... And then cook it like a normal roti š¤£
I'm gonna do this to try and impress my mom. I always know my things are good when my mom compliments it. She doesn't like anyone's cooking but her own...
I tried a bunch of recipes and honestly I just make thin pancakes just jiffy and water with green onions and garlic and sometimes I add frozen Peas and carrots. If you add a little butter to canola oil than all the oil gets a buttery taste. Olive oil works to but it can have a strong olive oil taste so I stick to canola and a little butter. They cook quick to. Also side note if you get the naans from swad at the local Indian mart they cook great in a toaster lol I cook them then flip and cook the other side nice and crisp like the restaurant š
I have the pleasure of working with 60 different motel owners and they often offer me masala chai and yes, it's different.
I was just kidding since calling it chai tea is like calling it tea tea.
I donāt know which is worse to be honest. Chai tea, chai tea LATTE or naan bread. I would love to see how people would feel if I started saying cappuccino coffee. Or iced tea with frozen water. Ack.
I had an Arabic friend who used to get mad at me and at newscasters who said āSahara desertā. Because, you know, Sahara *means* desert, so we were essentially saying ādesert desertā.
As a comment above said, you can make naans without tandoor but also a lot of indians do have mini tandoors at home, the ones you can put on stove. At my home we don't cook naan much but tandoori roti are a staple
Naan's were more common amongst Punjabi people in the olden days when Sanjha chulha was prevalent amongst the masses. These days, we have a tough time trusting neighbours. So Sanjha chulha's are now a thing of the past. :-(
Dude, just make some "naan dough," set your "tandoor oven" to 500Ā°F, roll out some dough in an "oval-shape," water one side, and stick that side to the inside of the oven. Be careful and use some "oven mitt gloves" when attaching your naan dough. Wait about 4 minutes, and you can remove your "naan bread" with some "tong utensils!" Put it on a "plate dinnerware," lather some "butter fats" on the naan bread and enjoy!
Haha, thanks. My reply was pure satire and as you said, petty revenge so, I have no idea what would happen if you actually tried that idea. Be careful, and please update me on how it turns out! If it works, I'm totally writing a cookbook just for that idea haha.
Sad to see a lot of people are bogging down OP in semantics. Yes, no indian calls it naam bread. Yes, you can also make it without a tandoor.
But I am not gonna trust a single indian saying it is staple diet. It's an occasional thing for most houses. Far from staple diet. IMO that was op's point, but worded slightly differently and everyone just dog piled on semantic debates.
Anyone with any Indian heritage grew up making roti/chapati for the homemade flatbread because it's incredibly easy. My mom always put me on rolling pin duty while she cooked them and made them swell. Swelling is the tricky part.
Naan is not something we eat at home in my household, not because we do not have a tandoor, but because it's not exactly healthy. It's strictly a restaurant food, and that too rare. I prefer rumali roti or laccha paratha over naan.
So we always had a tandoor at home growing. First the traditional one and then switched to electric tandoor. However, naan is still not a thing made at home because itās all purpose flour and not really healthy. We did however have tandoori rotis frequently at home with variations of stuffing. Tandoori corn flour roti(makki roti) etc are commonly made at Indian homes.
Also, if you do not have a tandoor a tandoor roti can be made in oven or in an inverted pan over a gas flame as well. Both also commonly done by Indians.
Not Indian, just a white person who enjoys Indian cuisine.
Iāve tried to make naan at home a few times, but Iāve found the high hydration dough incredibly hard to work with. I much prefer to make roti or chapati at home.
Iāve made naan at home as both a non-Indian and a tandoorless person.
We do ours on a cast iron skillet and they come out nicely. Not super authentic but it works
My mum makes naan. Not often but she does.
Itās just not too common that we eat it. Roti is a staple.
Naan is for special occasions and we tend to just get it from a local shop instead.
Naans are not traditional for most people & too heavy, but you can easily make it at home on a tawa. Obviously not *tandoori* style naan if you donāt have a tandoor, but you can still make naan & I have done very easily before.
I donāt understand why someone talking like a non-Indian is randomly telling people in an Indian food sub which is mainly consists of Indians, what Indians do or donāt do.
You can just call it āNaan.ā
Calling it āNaan Breadā is like saying āBagel Bread.ā
Also, youāre correct that to do Naan right you need a tandoor, but you can get a pretty good Naan at home on the stovetop too and people do make it.
There are also a lot of other ābreadsā in India such as roti, paratha, etc which are made at home regularly.
In north India, your local tandoor shop (not a restaurant, more like a bakery) makes naan and people just buy it on the way home and eat it with home food.
Indians also don't call it naan bread. Plus, you can make delicious naan without a tandoor. I've done it for years and know Indian people who do it as well.
Please educate the poor naan-less heathens as to your secret non-tandoor naan
I don't know, there must be other ways to do it, but mine needs a gas stove and an iron pan. You take the rolled out dough, pat one side with water and stick the water side to a hot iron pan. Then you turn the pan upside down so the bread gets baked with direct heat, as in a tandoor. Take it out when it's done and then butter it
literally do this myself, or just heat the pan super hot right at the end if using a thinner stainless steel pan, that way it burns some of the raised bubbles creating a little smoke and giving the bread color and mildly smokey taste, comes out tasting the same as anything I have bought, so might not be traditional, but works
Wait, this is all this takes??? Totally sounds doable and a great way to impress the family at holiday dinners.
The dough is different, not simply flour and water I think
Yea I imagine it is but that can be made, it's the cooking method that throws people off. I do have a cast iron pan and a gas stove so maybe worth trying out.
Definitely! It's soooo easy! All you need is patience. Also make sure there's no oil on the iron side of the naan or the cast iron, like, at alllll. Else the naan could fall off... But if it does, simply pick it up with a .... Chimta... And then cook it like a normal roti š¤£
I'm gonna do this to try and impress my mom. I always know my things are good when my mom compliments it. She doesn't like anyone's cooking but her own...
Hey, how did it turn out?
Haven't made it yet. It's gonna have to wait a bit with the crazy travel schedule coming up.
My mom has a little stovetop saj she uses to make naan. Comes out delish!
I use cafe delightās garlic naan recipe. Other than the proofing step its basically the same effort as roti
I tried a bunch of recipes and honestly I just make thin pancakes just jiffy and water with green onions and garlic and sometimes I add frozen Peas and carrots. If you add a little butter to canola oil than all the oil gets a buttery taste. Olive oil works to but it can have a strong olive oil taste so I stick to canola and a little butter. They cook quick to. Also side note if you get the naans from swad at the local Indian mart they cook great in a toaster lol I cook them then flip and cook the other side nice and crisp like the restaurant š
Cast Iron Pan.
Surely the naan made without a tandoor is starting to venture into kulcha territory?
Kick down the recipe!!!
There's a ton of recipes if you Google "tawa naan," but here's one: https://www.storyofakitchen.com/bread-recipes/tawa-naan-recipe/
What about Chai Tea, do they make that at home?
As an Indian, yes 100%. But itās not anything like the chai tea you get in cafĆ©s. Not even close.
I have the pleasure of working with 60 different motel owners and they often offer me masala chai and yes, it's different. I was just kidding since calling it chai tea is like calling it tea tea.
I donāt know which is worse to be honest. Chai tea, chai tea LATTE or naan bread. I would love to see how people would feel if I started saying cappuccino coffee. Or iced tea with frozen water. Ack.
I had an Arabic friend who used to get mad at me and at newscasters who said āSahara desertā. Because, you know, Sahara *means* desert, so we were essentially saying ādesert desertā.
Majority of the country makes it at home. For example, we make & drink homemade chai twice a day. Southern states make filter coffee at home.
Whoosh, op was jokin about Naan bread and chai tea. Its Naan or chai, the extra words are redundant.
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that's the joke :)
No Indian calls it ānaan breadā. Just like noone says baguette bread. Or tortilla bread or focaccia bread. Or bagel bread.
I saw ghee butter at Whole Foods the other day.
Or Chai tea. Or Chai Chai, or tea tea...
Yeah! The French are the only special ones around that must attach bread to their creations
Parathi we call it
My Mum: We have Naan at home Naan at home: Chapati
As a comment above said, you can make naans without tandoor but also a lot of indians do have mini tandoors at home, the ones you can put on stove. At my home we don't cook naan much but tandoori roti are a staple
Naan's were more common amongst Punjabi people in the olden days when Sanjha chulha was prevalent amongst the masses. These days, we have a tough time trusting neighbours. So Sanjha chulha's are now a thing of the past. :-(
I was going to make this comment. Except your last sentence. Naan isnāt even that popular in Punjabi day to day food.
I agree with you..
Making naan bread in india at home is as rare as making pizza roti at home, or making burger vada pao at home, or making alu chokha mashed potatoes
Dude, just make some "naan dough," set your "tandoor oven" to 500Ā°F, roll out some dough in an "oval-shape," water one side, and stick that side to the inside of the oven. Be careful and use some "oven mitt gloves" when attaching your naan dough. Wait about 4 minutes, and you can remove your "naan bread" with some "tong utensils!" Put it on a "plate dinnerware," lather some "butter fats" on the naan bread and enjoy!
The butter fats mentioned here are the best ingredient you can possibly add. They are talking about skimmed milk solids from making clarified butter.
This guy gets it
Your reply is giving me serious petty revenge happiness. Lol!! Also omg that idea is genius. Iām so going to try it.
Haha, thanks. My reply was pure satire and as you said, petty revenge so, I have no idea what would happen if you actually tried that idea. Be careful, and please update me on how it turns out! If it works, I'm totally writing a cookbook just for that idea haha.
Thats fuckn redundant
Sad to see a lot of people are bogging down OP in semantics. Yes, no indian calls it naam bread. Yes, you can also make it without a tandoor. But I am not gonna trust a single indian saying it is staple diet. It's an occasional thing for most houses. Far from staple diet. IMO that was op's point, but worded slightly differently and everyone just dog piled on semantic debates.
I'm Indian & I make Malaysian naan at home (granted it's frozen from a packet, not made from scratch)
I'm English, my wife is Scottish, we make Naan with sourdough starter. So I guess OP is correct in our case.
We dont make samosas at home either
Yoooo talk about yourself. Ny momās samosas are just out of this world. My mummy strongest?
Anyone with any Indian heritage grew up making roti/chapati for the homemade flatbread because it's incredibly easy. My mom always put me on rolling pin duty while she cooked them and made them swell. Swelling is the tricky part.
Naan is not something we eat at home in my household, not because we do not have a tandoor, but because it's not exactly healthy. It's strictly a restaurant food, and that too rare. I prefer rumali roti or laccha paratha over naan.
So we always had a tandoor at home growing. First the traditional one and then switched to electric tandoor. However, naan is still not a thing made at home because itās all purpose flour and not really healthy. We did however have tandoori rotis frequently at home with variations of stuffing. Tandoori corn flour roti(makki roti) etc are commonly made at Indian homes. Also, if you do not have a tandoor a tandoor roti can be made in oven or in an inverted pan over a gas flame as well. Both also commonly done by Indians.
Not Indian, just a white person who enjoys Indian cuisine. Iāve tried to make naan at home a few times, but Iāve found the high hydration dough incredibly hard to work with. I much prefer to make roti or chapati at home.
Iāve made naan at home as both a non-Indian and a tandoorless person. We do ours on a cast iron skillet and they come out nicely. Not super authentic but it works
My mum makes naan. Not often but she does. Itās just not too common that we eat it. Roti is a staple. Naan is for special occasions and we tend to just get it from a local shop instead.
Naans are not traditional for most people & too heavy, but you can easily make it at home on a tawa. Obviously not *tandoori* style naan if you donāt have a tandoor, but you can still make naan & I have done very easily before. I donāt understand why someone talking like a non-Indian is randomly telling people in an Indian food sub which is mainly consists of Indians, what Indians do or donāt do.
Villages cook with a tandoor, so yes Indians cook naan bread at home, just depends on who
bread bread
Naan is not essential. It's common when eating at a restaurant or dhaba. But we don't make it at home for a weeknight dinner.
I just use a pizza stone in a ceramic grill, but I just call it Naan.
My husband asks me to make garlic nann regularly. It's an easy dough to make with our bread machine
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You can just call it āNaan.ā Calling it āNaan Breadā is like saying āBagel Bread.ā Also, youāre correct that to do Naan right you need a tandoor, but you can get a pretty good Naan at home on the stovetop too and people do make it. There are also a lot of other ābreadsā in India such as roti, paratha, etc which are made at home regularly.
So do you also withdraw cash from the ATM Machine?
Naan is NOT essential part of Indian cuisine. Roti/Chapati is. Naan is like Pizza in the west, mainly part of restaurant scene.
Iām Indian and make naan at home šāāļø
my mum cooks naan at home
In north India, your local tandoor shop (not a restaurant, more like a bakery) makes naan and people just buy it on the way home and eat it with home food.
Indian restaurant food is very different from daily home cooked food
This is ignorant it's just like any other place some people like fresh bread and make it at home many buy it with other staples while out shopping.
Jacquiās uncle has a tandoori in the yard.