Easy Homemade Naan Bread Recipe - Indian Naan Bread

Homemade naan bread is easy to make, soft, eggless and made on an iron skillet or tawa without using tandoor oven. You can make this popular Indian flatbread using just all purpose flour or a mix of half all purpose flour and half wheat atta flour (the kind of flour used to make Indian flatbreads) as you like, along with yeast and yogurt as the main ingredients.

Popular Indian Naan Bread (Leavened Bread With Yeast)

If you are unfamiliar with naan bread, it is one of the most popular flatbreads from India, which is also quite popular in other parts of the world.

Naan bread is usually leavened with yeast and traditionally made in hot tandoor ovens.

You can make these in conventional ovens too, but you can also make these soft naans easily in a tawa  or iron skillet as we do in this recipe

This is also simple naan bread recipe without eggs (some naan bread recipes calls for eggs as well).

In India, the naan bread is usually served with any curry of your choice, raita (yogurt based salads) etc.

I sometimes use a combination of all purpose flour and wheat flour, which works well, but you may just use all purpose flour as well based on your preference!

We make this easy and soft naan bread without baking powder.

We uses active yeast and yogurt to make this soft, homemade naan bread from scratch and I used my instant pot to proof the dough!

After kneading the dough, I kept the dough inside the instant pot in warm setting (keep warm) for few minutes and then unplugged the pot and let the dough rest for a couple of hours and the dough turned out nicely!

However this is not necessary, it helps only if you are living somewhere its very cold and so the instant pot can help you with keeping the dough in a slightly warm environment even if you don't want to turn on the oven.

You can just keep the dough covered in a bowl and keep in a warm place instead.

You can see all my instant pot vegetarian recipes here if you like!

After the dough is rested and the dough rose to about double the size, we will make balls out of the dough, roll each of the ball and cook those in a tawa or iron pan or skillet (traditionally these are baked in a tandoor oven but its also done in conventional ovens or tawa or iron pans as you see here).

Serve with any curry of your choice, yogurt, raita etc.

Some suggestions for curry include palak paneer, paneer butter masala, matar paneer, chana masala (chickpea curry), tomato onion curry, easy peas potato curry, easy potato masala, egg masala curry etc. You can also serve this with just plain yogurt, butter or ghee, or yogurt based salads (raita) like this easy onion tomato raita.

You can also see the most popular Indian flatbread chapathi recipe here (with tips to make soft chapathi).

More Indian bread recipes:

Indian bhatura bread recipe

soft poori recipe

South Indian Kerala parotta (paratha) recipe

Bengali luchi recipe

This recipe makes about 12 to 15 medium sized naan breads.

So here is how you can easily make naan bread at home!

How To Make Easy Indian Naan Bread At Home?

To make easy naan bread at home, we use the following ingredients.

Ingredients to make easy naan bread

4 cups all purpose flour (or use 2 cups all purpose flour and 2 cups wheat atta flour based on your preference)

2 teaspoons active dry yeast (individual package of 2 ¼ teaspoon yeast will do fine!)

1 cup warm milk

1 cup yogurt

1 tablespoon sugar

salt adjust to taste

1 tablespoon oil (and more as needed for greasing the tawa and cooking the naan)

Step by step instructions

To make naan dough

Add the yeast to the warm milk, add sugar and also 1 tablespoon of all purpose flour, stir this mixture well and keep covered for about 15 minutes.

Once the yeast mixture is ready, let us prepare the dough!

Place all the remaining dry flour in a large bowl and add enough salt, mix well to combine the salt evenly.

Add the yeast milk mixture to the dry flour mixture, stir well using a spoon to combine. Now using your hands, mix the mixture very well again.

Add the yogurt and knead the mixture again very well using your hands.

Finally add the oil also and knead well to form the dough.

The dough should be little sticky but if you think the dough is too sticky, you may add a little flour and knead again (one tablespoon flour at a time if adding extra flour).

Now that the dough is ready, you need to keep this to rest for at least 2 hours for best results. Keep the dough covered.

After 2 hours, knead the dough again and make balls out of the dough.

To make the naan bread

First, you can make medium, equal sized dough balls from the prepared dough.

Roll the dough ball in some flour for easy rolling.

Press the dough ball slightly with your hands and in a clean, flattened surface, roll the first dough ball to make the naan.

As you roll the naan bread, it may become sticky so make sure to dust the bread with more flour as you roll the naan, this is necessary to make it easy, otherwise the process can be difficult.

You can flatten the dough in elongated oval shape, or you can make round ones or triangle ones as you like.

Heat a tawa or iron pan (or non stick pan), grease with oil or butter (or ghee).

Once the pan is hot, place the rolled, uncooked naan.

Brush with little more oil or butter (or ghee and cook until the bottom side is cooked, which will take almost a minute).

Once the bottom side is cooked, gently flip and cook the other side too.

Transfer the cooked naan immediately to a serving dish or plate (keep covered to keep it soft).

Similarly make balls out of the remaining dough and make all the naans.

Serve hot with any curry, raita, yogurt, pickles etc.

Below you can get the detailed recipe for easy homemade naan bread!