stop trying to cook indian food and join the asian food master race. buy the nice expensive short sticky rice, or steal it like I did, get some chicken thighs, soy sauce, brown sugar and all of that, make the teriyaki chicken from sarku japan. I've had "authentic" japanese-american teriyaki chicken from a dozen places and none of it I liked as much as the mall shit

Step 1. Buy tortillas.

my dude

ask my mom

also, it’s not really worth making your own naan, just get it frozen from your local brown store

honestly dude roti is 10x better than naan and super easy to make, so you should just do that

And less calories in roti

Get some atta, sift it with some salt, add a bit of oil, then add lukewarm water, knead it together, then let it rest for a bit.

Letting it rest means soft roti, if you don’t want that just get to the next step right away

Get to kneading, divide your dough into some balls, roll em out on some more atta, then throw it onto a hot pan and cook it. Add some butter or coconut oil to tour roti too

My mom taught me how to do this so I just do it by feel, if you want a more exact recipe I’m sure the internet will help you out here

make sure you use atta and not some other flor for the real roti experience

Roti is much much easier than naan and not as fattening as well.

OTOH, not as tasty either but put some ghee on it and you're good to go.

And BTW, that guy gave you the recipe of poori/paratha, not roti. Roti doesn't use oil.

That's poori, not roti. Roti doesn't use oil.

No, we’re not cooking with oil, you’re just adding a bit of oil to the atta.

Add some butter or coconut oil to your roti too

Are you South Indian by any chance?

paki

my moms side is from kashmir and my dad’s is from Karachi and Kolkata so it’s quite a blend

Man, I have never seen any Pakistani use coconut oil in food. That's reserved for South Indians only, lol.

Can’t say I have experience or knowledge with cooking besides what my family has taught me so I first time hearing about this for me lol

Sahi hai. Koi gal nahi ji.

Alternatively you could do Chapatis, they are really easy. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3095674/chapatis

The Asians where I used to live make a hoop with a handle out of wire (an old metal coat hanger does the job), and then they use that to actually finish it off directly over the flame. That makes it puff up like a football. http://abcdsofcooking.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/-5d_s5Fr-TgY/TcRf_BPGbaI/AAAAAAAABys/2qOuJXHZsF8/s1600/roti%2B9.jpg

Smh

Virgin roti vs. Chad naan.

It seems we are at an impasse

Actually, if you have any good South Asian restaurants around you, you can buy a bunch of naan from them for cheap.

Alternatively if you have any relation with people who work at/own one of these restaurants, or you help them/work with them, you’ll probably get some naan out of it too. Works for my cousins.

Usually if they do catering, then it’s probably guaranteed they’ll sell you a bunch of naan

You’re not cooking em, they’ve already made the naan

Lmao that’s true

Well I’d say make your own or just get adopted by a brown family then

I don’t care

restaurant owned by brown people, that serves brown people food

what’s a new American

South Asians

you replied to your own comment...... its no wonder you cant even make fucking naan

Order/make peshwari! Objectively the best kind especially with spicy spicy food 🤤

Good luck post results and recipe

Fuck it they aren't even expensive, it's just embarrassing to order 6 garlic naan, and 6 serves of onion bhaji. But I make my own ratia thank you very much.

I know some of these words

You gotta make that shit with your feet. Put it on a stone over and step on it.

I tried the same thing with Arab/Lebanese flatbreads and they ended up being terrible.

Basically the problem is that you're a mayo. Quit while you're ahead and go make some mashed potato instead.

r/IndianFood

Just search "naan" in the sidebar and you'll see a lot of homemade recipes.

You better post your naan pics there, mate.

Are you measuring dry ingredients with weight or volume? If you're using volume I highly recommend picking up a kitchen scale and using weight instead as volume can be very imprecise. Baking is a pretty exact science so you want to be as precise as possible.

it's never going to be as good as it is from a restaurant unfortunately. growing up we would usually get naan from a restaurant and make the rest of the food at home. some of my family members used to make god-tier naan at home and I could never quite figure out how.

Is naan some british slang for banana bread or something? That shit's easy to make bro

It's a type of flatbread, common in SE Asia.

Nobody I know makes naan themselves and I'm in Pakistan. Just get it from a shop lol.

You're really getting ripped off lol.

That sounds like a restaurant not a shop

you need a tandoor. Just build one in your kitchen.

Use unleavened bread, goyim

just do what all the other mayos do and do whatever kenji says:

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/08/grilled-naan-recipe.html

If the problem is it's not chewy enough, i have a strong suspicion you need to leave the dough tightly wrapped in the fridge for a couple days to let the gluten develop. Same reason pizza dough has that chewie texture when it's from a good reastaurant.

Whitebread literally incapable of making white bread.

2 cups self rising flour

3 tbsp olive oil

3/4 cup of warm water

Mix until a wet dough is formed, adding flour until no longer sticky. Let rest for 15 min, then divide and roll out until thin. Bake on stone in oven at 500F for about 10-12min.

I have never tried making it but I agree that frozen ends up like shit. Maybe you need a wood oven? I don't know and I am too lazy to google.

hey dumbass just buy it prepackaged from the local indian store

because the store bought ones have preservatives so you can keep it for longer

you're giving me autism

Naan MEANS bread you fucking mayo. Stick to your own foods.