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British Indian Restaurant Recipes - Starters & Side Dishes => Starters & Side Dishes => Breads (Naan, Puri, Chapatti, Paratha, etc) => Topic started by: coffeetime on January 04, 2013, 01:06 AM

Title: How do you get the filling/middle inside the naan bread?
Post by: coffeetime on January 04, 2013, 01:06 AM

Hey everyone.

I've been slowly working my way through the recipes on this site for a while now, this is such a wealth of knowledge that I wish there was a site like it for every cuisine!

Here's where I'm currently stuck with recreating the restaurant experience at home: when making a naan (e.g. a peshwari naan) how on earth do you get that delicious mix in the centre?!  >:(

I have tried:
- searching these forums, youtube and the internet in general.
- rolling the naan thin and then folding in half...it always ends up too thick.  I prefer a thin naan.
- making a ball with a well in the middle, adding the mix and then closing the well and rolling into a naan shape...the mix always bursts through the dough though  :'(

Is my dough wrong for the mix to burst through?  (I'm using CA's recipe for the dough).

I'm really pulling my hair out with this one.  I know thin peshwari naans exist, I had one (at a restaurant!) just last week.  It was like the curry god was taunting me by showing me what I cannot do! Haha.

Any help, links or even pictures appreciated.

Tom.

Title: Re: How do you get the filling/middle inside the naan bread?
Post by: h4ppy-chris on January 04, 2013, 10:18 AM

Have you watched this vid mate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcw5Sr9HQ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcw5Sr9HQ4)

Title: Re: How do you get the filling/middle inside the naan bread?
Post by: coffeetime on January 11, 2013, 02:44 PM

Quote from: h4ppy-chris on January 04, 2013, 10:18 AM

Have you watched this vid mate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcw5Sr9HQ4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zcw5Sr9HQ4)

Cheers, not seen that one but have seen a similar one on youtube.  Going to give this a try.   :D

How does everyone else get their stuffing inside their naans?  Or does everyone here have plain naans?

Title: Re: How do you get the filling/middle inside the naan bread?
Post by: Unclebuck on January 11, 2013, 03:32 PM

this feller doesn't care to much about making holes but effective method

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAu8kMAFKhM&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAu8kMAFKhM&feature=player_embedded)