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Sourdough Naan

Servings: 8 Naan
Author: Gina @ The Passionate Pantry

Ingredients

  • 1 tbls olive oil

  • 450 g bakers flour
  • 130 g full fat Greek yoghurt
  • 50 g filtered water
  • 300 g active sourdough starter
  • 40 g oil
  • 1 tsp fine sea salt

TOPPING

  • Nigella seeds or other seeds of choice
  • Sea salt flakes
  • Freshly cracked pepper

Instructions

  • Pour 1 tbls olive oil into a bowl and use your fingers to spread it around the sides so that the bowl is well greased
  • Place the rest of the ingredients except the topping into the TM bowl and knead 1 minute
  • Put the dough into the oiled bowl, cover and allow to rest for 4 hours NB: use a permanent marker pen to note the time on the cover so that you can keep track of it
  • Use a spatula and rotate it around the edges of the bowl (the spatula will pick up some of the oil making it non-stick), pressing down lightly onto the dough as you go to gently deflate it
  • Remove the dough with your spatula onto a lightly oiled surface (I use a silicon mat, but if you don't have one consider using baking paper, or your bench top if you wish) and shape it into a log with your hands (dough will not stick to you as it will have a thin coating of oil)
  • Divide dough into 8 pieces (I use a plastic bench scraper ... and portions do not need to be precise)
  • Roughly shape each piece into a ball, place back onto the oiled surface in two side by side rows (4 balls in each row) and cover with a long piece of Glad wrap so that the dough does not dry out
  • Rest the dough for one hour
  • When ready to cook the naan, preheat a pan to medium heat
  • Whilst the pan is heating, place a tea towel onto a plate ready to hold the cooked naan
  • With your fingers, get the first round of dough and lightly press it out into an oblong roughly 14cm by 9 to 10cm (does not need to be exact)
  • Sprinkle over the nigella seeds or other seeds of choice, sea salt flakes and pepper according to your taste
  • Lift up the naan by each end (it will be quite soft but you should still be able to pick it up lightly) and place it into the pan
  • Cook for approximately two minutes on the first side until lightly golden, then turn over and repeat on the other side (they will puff up a little while cooking)
  • Whilst the first naan is cooking, prepare the next one
  • Remove the cooked naan from the pan and place onto the tea towel, then pick up the next naan and continue as before
  • Stack the naan in two rows ... four naan per row ... and continue until they are all done (because they are quite soft I don't want to deflate the naan be stacking them all one on top of the other, hence the two rows)
  • Do not overcook the naan as they should be soft and pliable
  • Once they are all cooked, cover with the tea towel until ready to serve ... they will stay warm like this for at least 30 minutes
  • Serve as desired