How to make Taftan -

This is an aristocratic naan with a royal pedigree. Flakier and lighter than its ubiquitous relative.

Sanjeev Kapoor

This recipe is from FoodFood TV channel & has featured on Sanjeev Kapoor Kitchen.

Main Ingredients : Refined flour, Milk (दूध)

Cuisine : Persian

Course : Breads

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Taftan

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Every country in the world has its own elaborate styles of making bread which vary from being utterly simple to categorically complex. The quality of ingredients, precise measures, timings, methods and techniques of making these breads is what contributes to each bread having a unique character of its own.

Prep Time : 1.30-2 hour

Cook time : 26-30 minutes

Serve : 4

Level Of Cooking : Moderate

Taste : Mild

Ingredients for Taftan Recipe

  • Refined flour 1 3/4 cup

  • Milk 1 teaspoon

  • Sugar 3 teaspoons

  • Yeast Dissolved in water 1 tablespoon

  • Yogurt 2 tablespoons

  • Ghee 3 tablespoons

  • Milk 1 cup

  • Oil 1 tablespoon

  • Onion seeds (kalonji) 1 tablespoon

Method

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F. Sift the refined flour into a bowl and add salt. Add the sugar, yeast and yogurt and mix well.

Step 2

Add two tablespoons ghee and knead well into a smooth dough by adding milk. Set aside the dough for fermentation.

Step 3

Brush oil on the dough and divide it into equal portions and roll each portion into a ball. Roll out each ball of dough to a round shape that is thicker at the edges.

Step 4

Using only your finger tips press lightly to make groves all around. Place the taftan on a baking tray and sprinkle onion seeds on it.

Step 5

Cook in the preheated oven or in a hot tandoor for fifteen to twenty minutes, basting with the remaining ghee once halfway through the cooking. Serve hot.

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MasterChef Sanjeev Kapoor

Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the most celebrated face of Indian cuisine. He is Chef extraordinaire, runs a successful TV Channel FoodFood, hosted Khana Khazana cookery show on television for more than 17 years, author of 150+ best selling cookbooks, restaurateur and winner of several culinary awards. He is living his dream of making Indian cuisine the number one in the world and empowering women through power of cooking to become self sufficient. His recipe portal www.sanjeevkapoor.com is a complete cookery manual with a compendium of more than 10,000 tried & tested recipes, videos, articles, tips & trivia and a wealth of information on the art and craft of cooking in both English and Hindi.