Garlic Naan with Green Chiles

This garlic naan with green chiles is pretty hard to not love. It's wonderful hot and straight from the oven, slathered with ghee (clarified butter) and sprinkled with Kosher or sea salt. I pretty much scarfed down the first piece while baking the rest of the pieces of this dough.

Naan is a yeasted flatbread. It is traditionally baked in a tandoor clay oven, where it is placed on the side of the clay heated to 800 degrees F to cook for just a couple of minutes. 

I may not have a tandoor oven (hard to believe, right?), but I do have an oven, which I heated to 500 degrees F, and a baking stone. 

You can also bake naan on a very hot cast iron skillet or even on a charcoal or gas grill. 

One of the main ingredients of this naan is yogurt, which gives the bread a wonderful tartness.

The dough is very stiff, and may strain your mixer, so be sure to pay close attention to prevent overheating of your machine. Hand kneading this dough is also an option, and is a great workout!

This naan is flavored with garlic, jalapeño, mint, and dried minced onions. Trust me, it's so tasty. It's amazing how the little flat pancakes of dough puff up in the four minutes of baking.

How to make garlic naan with green chiles:

First, you mix the dough ingredients (flour, water, yogurt, milk, salt, yeast, and baking powder). I used as stand mixer, but you can mix this dough by hand. Let the dough rise until doubled. This should take about 2 hours.

While the dough is rising, mix the garlic, mint leaves, and dried onions.

When the dough has risen, form the dough into 12 balls and let them rise for an additional hour. Be sure to cover them with oiled plastic wrap so they don't dry out. In the meantime, heat your oven to 500 degrees F with a baking stone on the bottom rack.

Next, flatten the dough balls, top them with the filling mixture, and fold the disks in half to incorporate the garlic mixture, and then shape them back into 4-inch round disks. 

Finally, bake the disks on the hot baking stone, about 2 minutes per side. Keep them warm in a towel, and serve with ghee or butter, and sprinkle with Kosher or sea salt. 

Did you know that National Garlic Day is this month? In honor of the day, the Bread Bakers group is baking loaves featuring garlic! You need to check out the rest of the links for breads with garlic... lots and lots of garlic.

• Black Garlic Parmesan Sourdough Bread from Magnolia Days
• Buttery Garlic Knots from Sara's Tasty Buds
• Buttery Garlic Pull Apart Bread from Cook's Hideout
• Caramelized Garlic Chèvre Stuffed Bread from Food Lust People Love
• Cheddar, Garlic and Jalapeno Beer Bread from A Palatable Pastime
• Cheddar Garlic Dinner Rolls from Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
• Cream Cheese Stuffed Garlic Rolls from Herbivore Cucina
• Easy-Peasy Garlic-ky Mini Rolls from G'Gina's Kitchenette
• Garlic Batard from Hostess at Heart
• Garlic, Herbs and Cheese Bread from La Cocina de Aisha
• Garlic Pull Apart Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Garlic Sunflower Bread from Passion Kneaded
• Gluten Free & Vegan Garlic Breadsticks from What Smells So Good?
• {Gluten Free} Seeded Black Garlic Flat Bread from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Green Garlic Parathas - Flat Bread from Sneha's Recipes
• Herbed Garlic Butter Garland Bread from Ruchik Randhap
• Pissaladière from The Bread She Bakes
• Roasted Garlic Focaccia from Sizzling Tastebuds
• Triple Garlic Knots from Cindy's Recipes and Writings
• Whole Wheat Garlic Ciabatta Bread from Cooking Club

Garlic Naan with Green Chiles

Yield: 12 naan

Author: Karen Kerr

This garlic naan with green chiles is pretty hard to not love. It's wonderful hot and straight from the oven, slathered with ghee (clarified butter) and sprinkled with Kosher or sea salt.

ingredients:

For the Dough

• 1 teaspoon instant yeast
• 1/4 cup (55 grams) water
• 620 grams (scant 5 cups) bread flour
• 1 tablespoon Kosher salt
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 3/4 cup (180 grams) milk
• 3/4 cup (180 grams) full fat plan yogurt
• 1 tablespoon ghee (clarified butter)

For the Filling

• 6 large garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 jalapeño chile, seeds removed, and minced
• 1 tablespoon minced mint leaves
• 2 tablespoons instant (dried) minced onions
• Ghee or butter and Kosher salt for serving

instructions:

How to cook Garlic Naan with Green Chiles

1. Add all of the dough ingredients to the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on low for about two minutes until the ingredients are combined.
2. Mix the dough on medium to medium high and mix for another five minutes, until the dough is smooth. The dough is very stiff.
3. Place the dough into a large greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let rise in a warm spot for about 2 hours, until doubled.
4. Mix the filling ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
5. Transfer the dough to a clean work surface and cut it into 12 equal pieces. Form the pieces into balls, place them on a sheet pan, and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise until puffy, about an hour.
6. With a pizza stone on the bottom rack, preheat your oven to 500 degrees F.
7. Press down lightly to flatten the dough balls and sprinkle them with the filling ingredients.
8. Fold the balls in half and press them out into four inch rounds.
9. Place four to six of the rounds on the hot stone and bake for about 1 1/2 to 2 minutes, until browned. Flip them over and bake for another two minutes. After removing them from the oven, keep them warm in a towel lined bread basket. Finish baking the rest of the rounds.
10. Serve with ghee or butter, and Kosher or sea salt.
11. Leftovers should be stored in an airtight container or plastic bag. They can be reheated on a skillet or in a hot oven.

Calories
242.39

Fat (grams)
4.59

Sat. Fat (grams)
2.44

Carbs (grams)
41.59

Fiber (grams)
1.49

Net carbs
40.10

Sugar (grams)
2.54

Protein (grams)
8.08

Sodium (milligrams)
628.51

Cholesterol (grams)
10.37

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This recipe has been adapted from The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook. The Hot Bread Kitchen is a bakery in New York City that employs immigrant women and provides them with the skills to succeed in the culinary world. The book is amazing, and filled with a gorgeous collection of ethnic breads. If you love breads from around the world, you need this book. Read more about the bakery here.

This Garlic Naan recipe was originally posted April, 2016 and has been updated with a printable recipe card. 

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