Homemade Garlic Naan - Hinz Cooking - A Food Blog with Simple and Easy Dinner Recipes (2024)

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Indian style homemade Garlic Naan without yeast recipe will surely give you restaurant-style flavor at home. Extremely easy to make with soft and buttery texture. Best to serve as flatbread with the main course at everyday dinner or lunch!

Looking for homemade bread recipes for Dinner? Check out, No-Knead Dinner Rolls, Garlic Knots, Calzone, and Tawa Naan. All recipes are quick and easy to prepare at home and I believe it will add value to your dinner table.

What is Garlic Naan?

Naan is an Indian version of clay oven (tandoor) flatbread. Garlic naan specifically prepared with garlic and butter flavor. It's a famous and most popular naan of street food and Indian restaurants. Due to its garlicky taste and tempting aroma now it's been served in all Indian restaurants across the world. Also getting popular in Western Asia, Myanmar, Indonesia, and the Caribbean region. Most of the Indian restaurants in the United States serve garlic naan with the main course.

Naan has been prepared in tandoor and oven and here I am sharing to make homemade garlic naan restaurant-style at the stovetop. For this recipe, you need a traditional stove with a fire burner and iron skillet(Tawa). If you are a beginner then you can follow the step by step recipe to make at home.

It doesn't take much time to prepare so whenever I have a small party at home, I prepare garlic naan and my family and friends just love it and finish in no time.

Homemade buttery garlic naan is so soft and fluffy also has the perfect flavor same as we get from the tandoor. As it's without yeast so best to serve it at dinner.

Ingredients

Naan preparation starts with dough making that needs to be perfect to get the best result. For this naan, we are only using 5 main ingredients to make a soft dough that will help to make soft and fluffy naan.

All Purpose flour
Salt + Baking soda + Garlic Powder
Oil
Yogurt
Water
Sesame
Butter + Freshly Grated Garlic

Don't forget to look at recipe tips as it's based on my best practices after making many times in my kitchen. So if you are making first then it will help to get the best result on the first attempt.

How To Make Garlic Naan at Home

Garlic naan making is the 6 steps process:

Dough Preparation: In a bowl, add all-purpose flour, salt, baking soda, garlic powder and yogurt, and oil. Crumble the flour with your hands. Add water to knead the soft dough.

Rest the dough: Cover the dough and keep it in a warm place for 4 to 8 hours or overnight. After resting, the dough will settle.

Roll the Dough: After resting the dough, take it out and knead for few minutes. Roll the naan and apply sesame (optional). Apply water at the base of the naan.

Cook the Naan: Heat up the iron skillet (avoid nonstick) on the stovetop. As it gets hot then place the naan on the heated skillet to cook. Place on the iron skillet on the water base side. It will start cooking and forming bubbles. Let it cook for few seconds. Then flip the skillet and give direct heat from the fire burner. Rotate the skillet in a clockwise direction so it gets an even mark from all sides. As the naan is cooked removed it from the skillet using a tong as it will stick on the skillet.

Preparation of Garlic Butter: In a bowl, add freshly chopped garlic, butter, and fresh coriander/cilantro and mix well.

Garlic Butter Application: Right after cooking naan, apply garlic butter layer on naan. Cover it or directly serve.

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Soft Naan Tips & Secrets

Making perfect naan is a simple process but it requires few techniques to get perfect results. I have tried naan so many times and every time I learn something new to make it better. Here are some tips based on my best practices.

• Sieve the flour before making dough. It will release the air inside the flour and will help to make soft and fluffy dough without yeast.
• Baking soda and yogurt will work as catalyst to get fluffy naan.
• Some people use baking powder in dough. I used it once and didn't like the texture of naan as become more cacky in texture.
• If you are getting hard time to make fluffy naan then add a teaspoon of instant yeast in 3 cups flour.
• Always make the soft dough. Properly knead before resting.
• Place the dough at warm place to rise properly. Oven and microwave is the best place to keep the dough for settling.
• Use iron skillet as it has more grip to stick the naan on surface. Nonstick skillet will not help to stick the naan on surface so it become impossible to cook on fire in flip angle.
• If you don't have cast iron skillet then you can make it on nonstick skillet but directly keep on fire using tong rather using flipping method. Or, you can simply cook on hot skillet from both sides.
• Brushing of butter and garlic will make the naan soft.

Serving Suggestions

Garlic naan is the ideal side dish that you can serve with various dishes at dinner or lunch. Basically, it's a substitute for naan, dinner rolls, bread, or tandoori roti.

Don't forget to serve tea after eating carbs. Here I love to serve Orange peel tea or lemon tea which is good in taste and also helps to digest food.

How to Store Leftover Naan?

Garlic naan can be stored in 3 ways:
Store the Dough: Naan dough is delicate so you can simply store it in the refrigerator in an airtight glass container for 3 to 4 days. When you need to cook then take out before an hour to bring up the dough temperature. Cold dough will not make the naan soft and fluffy.

Cooked Naan Storage: Well, you can store the cooked naan in an airtight plastic bag for 5 to 6 days. Keep in the refrigerator! Make sure to not apply garlic and butter brushing if you want to store it for later use. You can apply fresh brushing when it's ready to serve.

Frozen Garlic Naan: People love to use frozen garlic naan and they take it from the grocery store but it's simple and easy to store homemade garlic naan in your freezer.

Prepare all the naan and place it in a tray (lined with parchment paper) and freeze for 1 hour. After one hour, take it out and place it on a plastic film and wrap. Freeze or 1 month. Whenever you need it, take it out from freezer, thaw for few minutes and cook on stovetop or bake in oven.

Tip: Make mini naans, if you want to freeze! in this way, you can freeze many naans easily in big tray.

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