How to Make Naan or Khobiz (Jewish Flat Bread)

This is leavened Indian Bread and you can top it and combine it with just about anything...Cheese, Cilantro, Onions, Garlic...Meat...you name it.

You can use either White Flour which rises more and is chewier, or Whole Wheat White Unbleached Flour (which I used). It is all up to you. White flour is more traditional.

4 Cups Flour (don't use brown Whole Wheat)
1 Teaspoon baking powder
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
2/3 Cup Warm Milk (110 degrees F or less)
2/3 Cup Plain Yogurt
1 Beaten Egg
2 Tablespoons soft Butter or Margarine
1/2 Cup Chopped Cilantro (or other stuff like enough Garlic and/or Onions)
2 Tablespoons Sugar
2 Packets of Yeast....Plain old yeast...not rapid rise yeast.

Note: I personally don't get all whipped up on proofing my yeast. I mix everything all together and let it rise. I make SURE that my Yeast is used long before the expiration date.

Mix it all together for 15 minutes. Spray oil (Kosher i.e. Kroger) a medium bowl and put the dough into the bowl. Turn the bread over a few times to get the surface slightly oily. This helps keep the bread from drying out.

Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in a warm place. I put in in my oven, because it has a proofer. You can slightly warm an oven up above 100 degrees and then shut it off and put the dough in there, out of the drafts and cold currents in your house.

When the dough has doubled, take it out and put it on a slightly floured surface. You don't have to get wild with the flour, but use enough.

Preheat Conventional Ovens (Regular ones) to 400 degrees F, and Convection Ovens to 375 degrees F.
Like in my pictures, cut the dough into eight pieces and make balls out of them.

Take the balls and roll them into the shape that I have done. Put them onto the parchment paper.

Baste the Naan with the mixture that you make. It could be butter and Cilantro; Olive Oil and Garlic; Onion and Garlic with Butter...etc...anything that you want.

Pop them into the oven until they are slightly brown across the surface. 12-15 minutes. Mine took 15 minutes for their color.

Enjoy and post pictures if you have them!