Butter Naan / Tawa Naan

Butter naan also known as Tawa naan is a very easy to prepare homemade soft flat bread using all purpose flour /maida and cooked on a cast iron tawa without adding yeast. Butter Naan / Tawa naan can be served with mushoom and peas curry or any other side dish of your choice.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Butter Naan / Tawa Naan.

Ingredients:-

All purpose flour /maida.-2 cup
Baking soda. -1/2 tsp
Sugar.            -1tsp
Salt.               -to taste
Curd.             -4 tbsp
Oil.                -1tbsp +1tsp
Water (luke warm). -as needed
Butter.           -2 tbsp

Instructions:-

In a mixing bowl and all purpose flour/ maida, required salt, sugar, baking soda and mix well using hand. Add 1tbsp oil, curd and luke warm water (about 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup water) into the mixing bowl and knead the flour for 2 to 3 minutes and make a smooth and soft dough. Apply 1tsp oil on the dough and cover the dough. Keep aside the dough for one hour to rest. After 1 hour divide the dough into lemon size dough balls.

Method

1). Spread some flour on a rolling board and keep a dough ball on it and dust some flour on the dough ball. Roll the dough ball using a rolling pin and make a medium thick oval shaped naan. (Instead of rolling the dough ball you can stretch the dough ball using your fingers and make medium thick oval shaped naan).

2). Heat a cast iron tawa. Apply little water evenly on one side of the rolled naan with a brush. Keep that side of the naan on hot iron tawa. Slightly press the naan on all sides for a second to stick it on hot tawa using a flat spatula and cook till bubbles puffed up on the top. 

3). Flip the naan using flat spatula and cook the other side on medium flame. 

4). When brown spot starts to appear remove the cooked naan from tawa to a plate. Brush some melted butter on top of the cooked naan.

5).  Repeat the same process and make butter naan / tawa naan with the remaining dough balls. Keep the cooked butter naan / tawa naan to a serving basket.

Butter Naan / Tawa Naan is ready to serve with mushroom and peas curry or with any other side dish of your choice.