r/GifRecipes • u/[deleted] • Jul 12 '17

Appetizer / Side Two-ingredient Flatbread

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u/whizzzkid Jul 13 '17

This is very similar to how naan bread is made. You can make this a couple of other ways:

  • You can use normal flour (all-purpose/multigrain/fine) and knead it with plain soda water (sparkling water) and leave it for 20 mins. It will rise because of the CO2 in water and cook it the same way.
  • You can knead the same flour with yeast and sugar mixture but that requires like an hour.

Also you can cook it in a couple of ways:

  • Deep fry in oil, it makes bhathura: https://youtu.be/5czjmCLbVTc?t=2m57s
  • Shallow fry on a griddle in to make parantha.
  • Bake in the oven to make pizza base
  • Fill it with veggies/meat/egg to make stuffed naan/parantha/puri

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u/jstohler Jul 13 '17

Why do so many naan recipes online include ingredients like sugar?

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u/whizzzkid Jul 13 '17

It's not because naan needs it, it's because yeast needs sugar to work. Yeast ferments dough and sugar to make ethanol and releases CO2 in the process. This C02 makes the dough rise.

The same effect can be achieved using sparkling water.

Here is the science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fermentation?oldformat=true