Week Five - Naan
1 February, 2011
I was on the road this weekend, so I'm a little late with this week's recipe, but I decided to try something a little audacious. I stumbled onto this recipe for naan.
"But, John," I hear you say, "that looks like perfectly charred, buttery, authentic-ish naan."
And, of course, you'd be right.
"But, how did you do that, when you own neither a tandoor nor a gas stove with an open flame?"
Two words:
Blow. Torch.
[Man! I really like my blow-torch: the most unexpectedly awesome kitchen tool I own. Aside from using it for VERY occasionally brulé-ing things, it is the perfect tool for starting charcoal in the grill without newspaper or lighter fluid.]
Oh, yeah... the naan.
It was very good, if a little difficult to coordinate by myself. This might be excellent for a dinner party, where two or three people could start an assembly line and have a blast making these.
For just the three of us (Okay, the two of us - The Boy wasn't interested) it was a little labor intensive and resulted in a lot of spousal eye-rolling. It was delicious, but not ENTIRELY worth the amount of work involved.
Grade - A minus
Week Five - Naan
1 February, 2011
I was on the road this weekend, so I'm a little late with this week's recipe, but I decided to try something a little audacious. I stumbled onto this recipe for naan.
"But, John," I hear you say, "that looks like perfectly charred, buttery, authentic-ish naan."
And, of course, you'd be right.
"But, how did you do that, when you own neither a tandoor nor a gas stove with an open flame?"
Two words:
Blow. Torch.
[Man! I really like my blow-torch: the most unexpectedly awesome kitchen tool I own. Aside from using it for VERY occasionally brulé-ing things, it is the perfect tool for starting charcoal in the grill without newspaper or lighter fluid.]
Oh, yeah... the naan.
It was very good, if a little difficult to coordinate by myself. This might be excellent for a dinner party, where two or three people could start an assembly line and have a blast making these.
For just the three of us (Okay, the two of us - The Boy wasn't interested) it was a little labor intensive and resulted in a lot of spousal eye-rolling. It was delicious, but not ENTIRELY worth the amount of work involved.
Grade - A minus