Lots of great People's Cookbook recipes have been posted involving Indian-style rice, bean, and chicken dishes. If I want some small spark of light and variety in my life, I add this Naan bread as a side to any sort of curry. The recipe isn't very original, but is flexible on ingredients, and doesn't even need an oven. To feed a lot of people, double or triple the recipe, though this may leave you frying Naans for many hours.

Makes 6 or 7 pieces.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup warm water
• 2tsp or one packet instant yeast
• 1 Tbsp sugar or 2 Tbsp honey
• 1/4 cup yogurt or sour cream
• 3 tsp olive oil (another oil would work too)
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 cups flour (all-purpose is fine)
• vegetable oil / ghee / garlic butter

Directions

Dough

1. Mix 1/2 cup warm water, 2tsp of yeast, and 1tsp of sugar together in a bowl. Set the bowl aside to let the yeast activate.
2. Mix the 3Tbsp olive oil, 1/4 cup Yogurt, an egg, and 1/2 tsp salt together, either in a mixing bowl or stand mixer.
3. Add 1 1/2 cup of flour to the yogurt mixture and stir until combined. Then add the yeast + sugar water from step one. Stir until combined. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cup of flour.
4. Kneed the dough a few times, or leave in the stand mixer with dough hook attachment. If dough is crumble-y, add more water. If dough is sticky, add more flour.
5. Cover your dough and let it rise. An hour at room temp would be good, but it doesn't matter too much.

Frying

6. Heat up some vegetable oil, ghee, or whatever you have, in a pan on medium heat or so.
7. take a small ball of dough, and push it into a flat circle with your hands on a floured surface. Try to get it about half an inch thick, and maybe 5 or 6 inches wide.
8. Fry the dough for a couple of minutes on each side in your nice hot oil. Poke down any big bubbles that form with a spatula. The bread should have plenty of brown spots but not be too burnt. Too oily? once you take a Naan out of the pan, you can set it one a plate layered with paper towels to absorb some of the grease.