Naan (No Yeast)

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Prep Time 1 10

Cook Time 35

Total Time 1 45

Servings

Calories 126

Ingredients

2 cups self-rising flour
½ cup Greek yoghurt
¼ cup warm water
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

All ingredients ready? Let's begin!
Pour all of the self-rising flour into a large mixing bowl and mix in ½ teaspoon of salt.
Next add in the Greek yoghurt. Give it a good mix until the flour and yoghurt are fully combined.
If you find the mixture to be too clumpy, add 1 tablespoon of the warm water at a time, mixing it into the dough with ever addition. You will know when the dough is the right texture if you can easily form a large dough ball. There should be some stickiness to the dough but it should be workable.
Flour a clean worktop before dumping the dough from the bowl onto the floured surface.
Start kneading with your hands. As there is no yeast in this recipe, you will not need to knead the naan bread for long, just enough to smoothen the dough out, about 2 minutes.
Once you are happy with the smoothness of your naan dough, transfer it back into your mixing bowl. Cover the bowl with some plastic wrap or a tea towel and leave it to rest for up to an hour. Again, this is not to let the dough rise – the lack of yeast means that it cannot at this stage – so don’t be alarmed by the lack of change.
Add a little more flour to your worktop. Move your dough back to the worktop and separate the dough into 8 even portions. This can be done by hand or with a very sharp knife or pastry cutter. To make sure the dough is evenly cut, you can weigh each section with a cooking scale.
Take one of the portions and use your hands to flatten the dough. Do this by pushing down on the dough with your fingertips until flat enough to shape. Then place your hands in the middle of the flattened dough and gently push outwards to create a large pancake-like shape.
Set the shaped naan aside and repeat the process with the other dough segments.
Ready a non-stick frying pan by heating it to a medium heat. You do not need to use any fat to cook the naan. Carefully lay 1 of the naan in the hot pan and leave to cook for 2 minutes. Then flip the bread, leaving it to cook for a further 2 minutes on the other side.
Prepare a plate and a clean tea towel to place the cooked naan on. When both sides have been fried, cover the naan and start cooking the next one.
Repeat until all of the naan have been cooked.
Just before serving your freshly cooked naan, brush the tops with some melted butter.
Enjoy your Easy Naan!

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