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British Indian Restaurant Recipes - Starters & Side Dishes => Starters & Side Dishes => Breads (Naan, Puri, Chapatti, Paratha, etc) => Topic started by: joshallen2k on June 19, 2015, 03:08 AM
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Hi All,
I've tried a few times to make HappyChris' naans. I've followed to the letter, even tried making my own self rising flour. I just cannot seem to get the bubbles that many of you have managed to recreate. Mine end up as tiny bubbles, slightly larger than the bubbles on a poppadom. I don't believe heat on the tawa is the problem. I've cranked it right up and charred the bottom within seconds on some trials, but alas no large bubbles. 5 or 6 trials later, I put it down to the formulation of the SRF here in North America.
However I really like the flavour of the HappyChris naans, so I thought I might try it with dried yeast. I know that yeast and salt are enemies, so I cannot use self-raising flour.
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers on how they might adapt that recipe for yeast? Just replace the SRF with regular flour and add half a teaspoon of yeast? Appreciate any and all suggestions. Wife is sick of me chucking out naan because "they aren't perfect".
Also would someone be able to point me to the word doc or text recipe that someone did that summarized the HappyChris video?
Thanks!
Josh
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Have you tried the first naan recipe he posted?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Qs2EVqr6U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Qs2EVqr6U)
http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8803.msg78650.html#msg78650 (http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,8803.msg78650.html#msg78650)
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Hi Josh
Glad to see you back posting again. I think Garp has sumarised the video somewhere in the thread (reply 462) but failing to find that, I have tweaked the recipe as below. I have made these naans six or seven times now, and have always had excellent results
Regards
Mick
Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
200g milk
8g baking powder
2g onion seeds
25g sugar
1 Tbsp Yoghurt
1kg self-raising flour
Method:
Put the egg, milk, baking powder, onion seeds and sugar into a jug and whisk.
Leave for 30 minutes whisking occasionally.
Put the flour in a mixing bowl and add the mixture plus 300ml of water.
Mix together til you have a wettish dough
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Thanks Mick. As luck would have it, I made a batch of dough yesterday (again I forgot to try yogurt in it ....senility setting in, I think). My balls are resting on the counter as we speak, ready for some tawa action later :)
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I've made these once and they turned out very good! I'm Cooking some more tonight
I made the dough last night fingers crossed they turn out like the first batch.
Ps I've just checked tonight's batch they are coming along nicely see below! will be cooking them shortly.
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Tonight's naans have turned out good eating one as I type this very tasty indeed.
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Look very :) nice Bob
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Cheers Gav they do taste good.
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Looking good, Bob. Can't beat them straight off the pan :)
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Thanks for the link to the earlier recipe.
I will substitute the SRF for bread flour, and add 1% yeast. I will follow the rest of the "latest" recipe as is and see where I end up.
Thanks guys!
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Thanks Mick. As luck would have it, I made a batch of dough yesterday (again I forgot to try yogurt in it ....senility setting in, I think). My balls are resting on the counter as we speak, ready for some tawa action later :)
Are you tall?
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Josh
The yoghurt and the reduced sugar are two of my tweaks. Garps original transcription from the actual video is a follows:
Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
200g milk
8g baking powder
2g onion seeds
100g sugar
1kg self-raising flour
Method:
Put the egg, milk, baking powder, onion seeds and sugar into a jug and whisk.
Leave for 30 minutes whisking occasionally.
Put the flour in a mixing bowl and add the mixture plus 330ml of water.
Mix together til you have a dryish dough
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Interesting to see, Mick, in your adaptation, that you brush with oil and butter, rather than just oil. Might give that a go if you feel it improves the finished article :)
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I just noticed that the water is missing from the recipe, it will be a bit too dry without it I think.
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Josh
The yoghurt and the reduced sugar are two of my tweaks. Garps original transcription from the actual video is a follows:
Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
200g milk
8g baking powder
2g onion seeds
100g sugar
1kg self-raising flour
Method:
Put the egg, milk, baking powder, onion seeds and sugar into a jug and whisk.
Leave for 30 minutes whisking occasionally.
Put the flour in a mixing bowl and add the mixture plus 330ml of water.
Mix together til you have a dryish dough
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I seem to have lost the ability to read. haha
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:) Perhaps, in your defence, the water should be included in the ingredients, rather than later on.
But why am I defending you?
Should have gone to Specsavers bud 8)
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Yeah i think you may be right hahaha. Wouldn't make a good ad though.