Topic: H4ppy-chris new naan recipe

[Secret Santa]

How much did you knead the dough? Too much kneading develops gluten and then the naan's don't seeem to rise right. Trick seems to be to mix just enough for the dough to come together then quit mixing.

Yes that could be it. I did knead the dough a bit after it had been left to rise but Chris does that too. He also folds the dough when shaping the balls which is a bit more kneading. I'll just have to try it again sometime without any kneading.

[Secret Santa]

I dropped the sugar to 60g from the original 100g and it's about right for me.

Yes they were tolerably sweet, just a tad sweeter than I'm used to though - I dread to think how sweet the 100g version must be. I'd probably use 50g next time.

I just follow the recipe and it works out. If anything, sometimes mine are too 'fluffy', but I prefer that to cardboard

Ah but there's the rub - which recipe? Chris's video leaves quite abit to be desired in terms of clarity. For example leaving the dough at room temp for up to five hours or in the fridge for 3 days. I bet there's a sweet spot for perfect naans and everybody is probably doing it a different way. What timings and procedure do you use?

[Garp]

Here are the original notes I made after watching Chris's video:

Naan Bread

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

[Secret Santa]

Right, thanks Garp. I'll have a bash at them using that method to the letter and see what transpires.

[Garp]

Good luck SS - let us know how it goes (unless it is a disaster)

[london]

The recipe would be easier to understand if the milk and water measures were in mls and the baking power and onion seed measure were in teaspoons, I had a set of scales than went down to 0.1 grams but the police took them away from me .

London

[Garp]

Lmao

[london]

Anyone know where I can get 49 gram eggs.

London.

[madpower]

why do you answer your own questions london

[madpower]

Anyway on a different subject looks like happy did not except is comeback offer and who can blame him.