- Prep Time: 90 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Serves: 2 People
Ingredients to make Tawa Garlic Butter Naan :
- Flour – 2 cups + 2 tablespoons (dusting)
- Lukewarm Water – 1/2cup+ more for kneading the dough
- Yeast – 1 teaspoon
- Sugar – 1 tablespoon
- Curd – 2 tablespoons
- Oil– 1 teaspoon
- Kalonji or Nigella seeds – 1 tablespoon
- Coriander leaves – 1/4cup(chopped)
- Garlic – 1/4 cup(chopped)
- Butter – 2 tablespoons
- Salt-to taste
How to make Tawa Garlic Butter Naan :
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Add 1 teaspoon yeast and 1tablespoon sugar into 1 / 2cup warm water.
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Mix well and keep to proof for 10 minutes
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In a large mixing bowl, take 2 cups of flour, add a pinch of salt, mix well ,add the yeast mixture and curd,mix well.
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Knead the flour mixture with yours hand into a dough, add more warm water if required while kneading.
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Now add a tablespoon of oil and knead this again for 2 minutes.
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Cover the naan dough with a moist kitchen towel and keep aside in a warm place to rest for 1 to 1.5 hour.
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The dough will doubles as the yeast activates.
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After 1 hour, Sprinkle some flour on the dough and knead it for a minute.
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Now divide the naan dough into roughly equal size dumplings.
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Mix the garlic, kalonji and coriander leaves in a bowl for the topping
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Put tawa on gas stove and heat up the tawa in high flame.
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Take each dough dumplings on a plain suface, you can use kitchen slab or rolling board. (sprinkle flour if required ) and roll into dough using rolling pin to make a fine shaped pan.
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Take 1 teaspoon of garlic, coriander and kalonji mixture and spread on one side of naan.
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Using the rolling pin, roll once to press all the ingredients.
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Flip the naan on its back, and apply little water using hand.
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Place the naan on hot tawa wet side down garlic side up.
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Gently press using hand or spatula to stick on tawa.
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Cook for few seconds or until bubbles will be appeared on naan.
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Naan would be stuck with to the tawa.
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Place the naan and stick to the hot pan on the water side.Let the naan cook for a couple of seconds
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Turn the tawa upside down on gas flame, move the tawa carefully on the flame to cook naan until brown spots appear.
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Take the garlic naan out with a spatula and place it in a serving plate and smear some butter.
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Cook remaining naan dumplings using above steps.