Peshwari Naan Recipes

PESHAWARI NAAN BREAD (BREAD MACHINE)

Steps:

• Add all ingredients (except the sultanas) to your bread machine in the order your machine recommends. If your machine recommends pre-heated liquids, just heat the skimmed milk till it's lukewarm.
• Start your machine on the dough setting.
• 10-15 minutes before your machine stops mixing and starts proving, (some machines beep at this point) add the sultanas.
• Preheat your oven to 250C and have 3 shelves in it.
• Grease 3 flat oven trays.
• When the bread machine has finished, tip out the dough onto a floured board.
• Tear off a chunk of dough about 1 sixth of the total size and flatten out with the hands to a pear shape about half the size of your tray. Do not use a roller as the bread probably won't rise. Repeat till you have 6 naans on your trays.
• Bake in the oven for about 7 minutes, or until the bread just begins to colour.
• The bread can be frozen in bags for later use.

PESHWARI NAAN

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix the yeast and sugar with a tablespoon of warm water to activate. Leave for 5 minutes in a warm place until frothy.
• Meanwhile, in a separate bowl mix the flour, salt and baking powder.
• Once yeast is frothy add it to the flour with the oil, yoghurt and milk.
• Knead the dough, with slightly wet hands, folding as you go until it is nice and soft.
• Place the dough in a mixing bowl, cover it with cling film and leave it in a warm place to rise for 1 hour.
• Divide the dough into four balls and place on a floured surface.
• Place all ingredients for the filling into a blender and blitz to a course powder.
• Flatten out each ball and place about 1 tbsp of the filling into the middle. Pull up the dough to seal the filling inside then carefully roll into a tear shape about 0.5cm/¼in thick.
• Heat the tava or frying pan and turn on the grill to high to heat up. Place the naan onto the pan for about a minute or two to brown on one side.
• Transfer to a baking tray (cooked side down) and cook under a hot grill for 2 - 5 minutes until all puffed up. Smear with butter to serve.

PESHWARI NAANS

Steps:

• Put 125ml warm water into a bowl and sprinkle over the yeast and 1 tsp of the sugar. Leave for 10-15 mins or until frothy. In a larger bowl put the flour, remaining sugar, ½ tsp salt and baking powder. Mix together then make a well in the centre in which to pour the melted butter, yogurt, nigella seeds and yeast mixture. Stir well, then start to bring the mixture together with your hands. If it's very wet add a spoonful of flour but if it's dry add a splash more warm water. It should be a very soft dough but not so wet that it won't come together into a ball of dough. When you're happy with the consistency, start kneading, first in the bowl then transfer the mixture onto a well floured surface and continue to knead for 10 minutes or until smooth and elastic but still soft. Grease a large bowl with extra melted butter or ghee then shape the dough into a ball and place in the prepared bowl. Cover and leave in a warm place for about 1 hr or until doubled in size.
• For the Peshwari paste, in a food processor, blend the almond flakes, cream, desiccated coconut, sugar and sultanas until they form a thick paste. You may need to adjust the recipe by adding more cream to form the paste if it is too crumbly or more almond flakes if too wet.
• Kneed the peshwari paste into a pliable dough.
• Now take a tennis ball sized ball of the naan dough and make a shallow hole in it with your thumb.
• Place the peshwari paste dough into it and then fold the naan dough around the peshwari paste.
• Heat a large non-stick frying pan over a high heat. Take one of the balls of dough and roll it out to form a teardrop shape that's approximately 21cm long and around 13cm at the widest part. When the pan is very hot, carefully lay the naan bread into it. Let it dry fry and puff up for about 3 mins, then turn over and cook on the other side for another 3-4 mins or until cooked through and charred in patches. Heat oven to its lowest setting and put the cooked naan bread on a baking sheet. Brush with a little melted butter and put it on the baking sheet and cover with foil. Keep warm in the oven and layer up the cooked naans one on top of each other as you make them, brushing each one with melted butter or ghee as you go.