Masala Naan

What goes well with a Punjabi sabzi, the answer is naan. I prepared naan with the great help of mom. Infact it would be more correct to say that I had helped mom making naan.

It tastes superb even when ate alone as this is more of a masala naan. I had cooked naan to eat with paneer butter masala.

Preparation time: 10 minutes (to make dough)

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serves: 10 makes

What goes in it:

Maida- 300 gms

Yeast- ½ tbl son

Cooking soda powder- ¼ tbl spn

Sugar- ½ tbl spn

Warm water- 1 cup

Ginger, finely chopped- small piece (about an inch)

Garlic, finely chopped- 2-3 cloves

Green chilli, finely chopped- 2-3 nos

Coriander leaves, finely chopped- ½ cup

Sesame seeds (Til)- 1 tbl spn

Salt- as per your taste

Ghee- 3-4drops

How did I make it:

In a bowl, mix yeast, soda and sugar. Mix them well.

Heat water in a small cooking pot. Make it warm. Now add yeast mixture to the water and stir it al properly till sugar dissolves. Keep it covered for ½ hour.

After half an hour, you will see yeast water has swollen a bit. So this water is now ready to knead your dough.

To make the dough take a wide plate, put in maida add ghee, salt, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste, coriander leaves and til to it. Mix them all well. Knead the dough by adding yeast water little by little so that it becomes pliable. Keep it covered for 4-5 hours in a dark place. So that you get nice swollen dough.

Make small lime sized balls just before you are to prepare naan.  With the help of rolling pin, roll the dough. Apply water on the entire circular side of the naan. So that it does not drop off tawa.

Heat the tawa. Put naan on it. Cook one side of it till it runs brown. 

To cook second side turn the tawa upside down.  Cook till it browns.

You may find this technique of truning tawa a bit difficult but trust me it is not. If you are not able to turn it upside down simply cook the second side of naan on stove directly as you do for chapatti. But tawa will give you a nice taste...

Once it is done put in a plate. Apply ghee/ butter to it.

Serve it with any vegetable you want. I had it with Paneer butter masala. Also if you eat this naan alone, it will taste good.

Paneer Butter Masala

Well accidently this recipe turned out to paneer butter masala. I was trying to make paneer tawa masala with no idea on how to use the ingredients to makea  tawa sabzi. Though I did cook and after cooking realised, it looked like paneer butter masala. I was lucky that it did turn into a yummy delicious paneer sabzi- tawa masala or butter masla who cares when it tastes and smells tempting.

Let me tell you, I have not used cream to make the sabzi. But still you will get thick delicious gravy for your paneer butter masala and when served hot with  Naan, the smell itself will be mouthwatering...

Recipe for Naan coming up in next post.

Preparation time: 5 minutes (to make tomato- onion puree and cut paneer to cubes)

Cooking time:  10 minutes

Serves: for 3 person

What goes in it:

Cottage cheese (Paneer), diced- 250 gms

Capsicum, square pieces- 1 medium sized

Tomato, puree- ½ cup

Onion, puree- ½ cup

Garlic-Green Chilli-Ginger, paste- 2 tbl spn

Garam Masala- ¼ tbl spn

Pav Bhaji Masala- ¼ tbl spn (I used Baadshah’s Pav Bhaji Masala)

Biryani Masala- ¼ tbl spn (I used Baadshah’s Biryani and Pulav Masala)

Red chilli powder- ½ tbl spn

Turmeric powder- ¼ tbl spn

Dried coriander- cumin powder- 1 tbl spn

Salt- as according to your taste

Cashew powder- 3 tbl spn

Oil- 2 tbl spn

How did I make it:

Cut paneer and capsicum into square pieces. Keep them aside.

Cut tomato and onions into four and put in mixture. Add 2-3 green chillies, 2-3 cloves of garlic and part of ginger.  Grind them all to make puree.

Take a kadai. Pour oil in it and heat it. As it heats up. Put tomato- onion puree to it. Keep on stirring and let it cook for about 2 minutes. Now add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, dried coriander-cumin seeds powder, garam masala, pav bhaji masala and biryani masala. Also add cahew powder to it. Stir them all well and cook for next 1-2 minutes.

As the gravy boils, add paneer cubes and capsicum to it. Cook it covered for 5-7 minutes.

After it is ready shift to a serving vessel.

Serve yummy paneer buter masala with naan.