Naan

Naan is my kids all time favourite food... Being working women I never find time to prepare these items .. So mostly when we go to hotels, first item we order is Naan... In hotels, side dishes for naan are costlier for Naan than main dish... After Diwali for past four days I prepared very light items and last week took enough holidays and rest too... So today got bit free time, so thought of trying Naan... First time tried naan using yeast... Came out sooo well.... I have give the recipe below , please try and give you feedback....

Ingredients

Maida - 3 cups (all purpose flour)

Yeast - 1 1/2  tsp dry active yeast

Sugar - 1 1/2 tsp

Salt - as needed

Ghee or butter - as needed

Whisked Curd - 3 tbs

Milk - as needed

Method

First we can see how to make yeast active.... In a warm water , add sugar and little salt and stir well, then add yeast and stir well till all granules are completely dissolved in water. You have to be very care full here... Using of cool water won't activate yeast.... If you use hot water, it may kill yeast... Both will end in no use to us... Hence use warm water..when yeast completely dissolves in water, cover it with cloth and keep in dark place ( to help yeast to activate soon). Leave it for 10 minutes or till foam begins to form in the top... 

Then to the maida flour, add little salt, curd, yeast , milk and knead well....   Keep the kneaded dough covered in moist cloth for 1 to 1 1/2 hours ... By this time due to yeast, dough might have been doubled.

Make balls out of the dough. In chappathi roller, roll the balls in desired shape, I rolled like the shape as in hotels... Rolling can be done by using flour duster... Either using roller or by using our hands , can press it to desired shape.

Since I prepared garlic naan, I smeared nicely chopped garlic over the naan and pressed using roller and then turn it to other side, in the back side, fully grease with water, water and dough together will make sticky surface.....

Place this sticky surface on the hot dosa tawa and press using hands so that it is sticked to the tava...

When one side is cooked, turn the dosa tawa ( not the naan) and directly show the top side of the naan in the flame... Naan won't fall down because bottom portion is sticked to the tawa due to greasing of water.... You have to rotate the tawa in all direction so that naan is cooked equally on all sides....  As in photo I completed turned tawa and rotated tawa using handle in the fire...

First time when you are not comfortable or when you turn the tawa if naan falls out of tawa, you can use appalam holder and show the naan directly to the flame... Don't grease the dosa tawa with oil or cloth anything... If you do so, Naan won't stick to the tawa.... Like this repeat for all naan... After taking naan from tawa can add little ghee or butter over the naan...

Serve this naan hot with any gravy of your choice..