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If anyone has a recipe for NAN BREAD I'd love to have it....once I tried it from an East Indian market and was spoiled by the light wonderful flavor....I would like to make it from scratch nothing like it....I just registered and look forward to meeting everyone
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Welcome aboard Italmama. I've never heard of NAN bread but it sounds interesting. Looking forward to that recipe.

Hello Italmama,

This is the recipe my family uses to make nan bread. It is much trouble but the breads are very good and you can freeze them.

Nan Bread

1/2 cup Yogurt
1/2 cup Milk
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Sugar
4 Tbls Butter (melted and cooled)
2 Eggs (lightly beaten)
2 pk Quick-rising yeast
3 1/2 cup Unbleached whiteflour
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Poppy or Sesame seeds

Warm the yogurt on a low temp burner and add in the milk slowly and stir until thoroughly mixed. Remove from the heat and cool. Place the yogurt mixture in bowl for heavy-duty mixer. (Otherwise do it by hand.) Add baking soda,sugar, 2 tbs butter, eggs, and yeast. Mix until the yeast dissolves. Stir in the flour and salt. Using the dough hook for your mixer, knead dough for 15-20 minutes until smooth and elastic. Place dough on plastic board and cover with a large stainless bowl. Let dough rise 2X its size. (about 2 hours). Dust hands with flour and knead dough for a couple of minutes and divide into 8 balls. Roll each into a 10" pancake. Pull each gently to oval shape. Cover with plastic wrap for 20 mins. Do not stack - they will stick. Heat oven to 450 deg with clay tiles for baking or upside-down baking sheet. Mix remaining 2 tablespoons butter with poppy seeds. Flour a small wooden board and place loaf on it. Brush the top with some butter/seeds and heat. Bake just til bubbles form and turn a bit brown. (about 4 mins). Remove board and loaf. Brush bottom of loaf lightly with water. Cover with plastic wrap until serving.

Yield: 8 Loaves