Garlic Naan Bread is loaded with fresh garlic and green onions. This is one of the tastiest slices of bread around, and you can make this homemade bread recipe in your own kitchen!
If there was ever a food enjoyed by people in every part of the world, it would have to be bread. Obviously, this includes naan bread!
It is difficult to find a country that isn’t known for some kind of baked dough, be it sweet or savory. Flour, yeast, water, and salt are where some of the best meals start. The best part is, you don’t need any fancy equipment when you make homemade bread.
If you like to use a bread machine, then keep at it. I find that they don’t give you the same texture and crumb as naturally risen yeast will. What I will say is, the most important step in the process is high heat, and the higher the better.
Your standard oven will work for most bread, even this Garlic Naan Bread recipe, but you’ll have to crank up the heat.
How to make garlic naan
You will want to bake this naan recipe at 550 degrees F., the highest temperature most ovens can reach. History tells us that traditionally, bread was baked in outside ovens. Ovens like this are usually made of some kind of brick or clay. These days, people are trying to get that heat source back. To achieve this, you will need some good baking trays like the ones I use.
If you use a traditional pizza oven that can reach 800 degrees, you’ll be able to get that awesome bubbly char on the crust. To finish the naan bread, glaze with some melted butter.
Which type of yeast should I use for my naan recipe?
When I bake bread, I always use Red Star Yeast mixture. It is reliable and won’t let you down. Plus, I love how there are different kinds I can use depending on what I’m making.
I leave the dough to rise in the refrigerator overnight so the Regular Active yeast is perfect. This being said, if you want a loaf of garlic naan the same day, the Quick Rising yeast is what I suggest using.
They also have a Superior Platinum yeast which gives amazing results in regards to texture and crumb. For tons of baking recipes and tips on how to bake with yeast, check out the Red Star Yeast website!
Other homemade bread recipes to love!
Fresh Baked Italian Ciabatta Rolls
This post was sponsored by Red Star Yeast. All thoughts and opinions are always my own.
This post has been updated with slight recipe tweaks for improvement and better photographs.
Homemade Garlic Naan Bread
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups lukewarm water
- 2 tsp Red Star Active Dry Yeast
- 5 1/2 cups all purpose flour plus more for dusting the work surface with
- 1 tbsp Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup minced garlic From a jar is easier
- 3/4 cup green onion sliced finely
- 1 tbsp Olive oil for brushing the dough
Instructions
- Fill a medium sized bowl with the water and sprinkle the yeast on top of it.
- Whisk the yeast until it's dissolved.
- Add 3 cups of the flour, salt, garlic and green onion and stir with a heavy spatula or wooden spoon until smooth.
- Add the remaining flour. Stir again until well combined and the dough comes together into a ball.
- Dust a clean work surface with some flour and dump out the dough.
- Start to knead the dough dusting with more flour if things get sticky.
- Once the dough is a round ball, about 2-3 minutes of kneading, place the dough back into the bowl it came from making sure to lightly oil the bowl with a little olive oil to prevent the dough sticking.
- Cover the dough and let rise in a warm area for 1 1/2 hours or until almost doubled in size.
- Transfer the dough back out onto your floured work surface and punch down into a rough circle shape.
- Cut the dough into 4 pieces.
- Prepare a large baking tray with parchment paper or a baking mat and dust lightly with flour
- Using your fingers stretch and work each piece of dough into a long oval shape about 8 inches long and 6 inches wide.
- Lay each piece onto your prepared baking pan and brush each piece of naan lightly with some olive oil.
- Preheat the oven to 550 degrees or as hot as you can get it.
- Bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes or longer if you like it more crusty. Check the bottom of the bread for a dark color.
- Once the naan has finished baking, transfer it to a plate and cover with a clean towel to stay warm.
- The bread is best served warm and can be reheated covered in foil in a 350 degree oven for 5-7 minutes.
Garlic naan!?!? This is my favorite!
I love naan bread, this looks like the best!
My family loves it when I make naan. Your garlic version sounds wonderful.
Garlic naan is seriously one of my absolute faves! I adore it!
“flour, yeast, water and salt is where some of the best meals start.” I completely agree! most everyone loves bread, and this recipe looks so good! pinning to make soon, thank you!
Holy cow, Gerry – this is the best looking naan I have ever seen! I can’t wait to try making it!
wow..I appreciate that Kristen :)
Indian takeout is the highest order of treat in our house — and homemade naan has been on that bucket list for too long, this looks amazing Gerry!
This looks so delicious! I need to make this for my family soon!
Yayy Lori, serve it with some awesome Indian food!
Naan is SO good, but garlic naan is the best. This looks amazing, Gerry — pinned!
Thanks Steph!!
These garlic naan look fantastic, Gerry.
How great is this! I LOVE
How great is this! I LOVE naan bread and this looks incredible! I will have to try this.
Great Jess and thanks :)
This looks absolutely perfect!! I could not live without bread, and I need this naan in my life!
Thanks Deborah :)
I’ve never made naan before, but I keep thinking I should try it. Thanks for posting this recipe…I’m going to give it a go this weekend.
Keep me posted Pamela!
I have been wanting to make my own naan bread for some time, and this really motivates me!
Awesome Kacey!!
Where do I sign up, because naan is my absolute favorite? I always hit up the naan when I visit our favorite Indian buffet, like all the naan. Pinned.
No sign in required Jennie :)
Super delicious Great recipe. Thanks for posting this up.
Simon
do you think it will work just as well with wheat flour? Some recipes I try to exchange white flour with whole wheat don’t work out well.
Hi Kristine,If anything I think it might make the bread more dense and heavy, but Naan is not like sandwich bread so you might get away with it. Let me know how things go!
Tried it. Kinda salty and turned out really crusty after just 6 minutes :/ I think I prefer it cooked on a pan. I’m new to this oven though so maybe it was too hot.
hey this one of the best recipe of garlic naan, i hv tried so far thnx for posting, my husband really loved it wen i served it with dal.
Made this and it is wonderful, used garlic scape pesto I froze instead of the garlic cloves. Made homemade hummus to dip it into, heavenly lunch! Thanks for sharing
Glad to hear it Karen and the pesto sounds awesome!
That’s one awesome naan there. And garlic is my favourite. Your’s look perfect.
5 1/2 cups of flour, and only 4 naans?
Other recipes serve 8 to 10 naans with 3 – 4 cups of flour.
I’m giving it a shot on Friday. After work because of the 10 cloves.
Thanks for the recipe.
Fellow baker here and naan lover here!! I’ve never made naan before, but want to try, and it looks pretty easy! Here’s my question: so you used A-D yeast, do you need to activate it? Or just mix in and let it activate while fermenting?
Hi Meaghan, I just added it in and let it ferment, hope that helps!
I haven’t made it yet but it looks good! Anyway we can get the calorie, carb, etc. count on this?
I’m fixing to make it now
Greta, you have to be from the south, because I’m fixin to try this also…..Only in the south we all say fixin……lol
Made a pesto vegetarian pizza outta the bread last night, best/most simplistic dough I have ever made. This one is a keeper!!!
Is this a vegan recipe by any chance? We have this new tradition we are starting with our friends. That each time we give the green bowl back to each other we have to fill it with something for the other person. However my buddies gf is vegan (which is kind of a pain) so I’m searching out some vegan recipes. Thanks in advance.
Hi Andrea, you should be good to go with this as a vegan recipe :)
Made this naan and, wow!, yummy. Served with curried chickpeas. Sooooo good. However, my oven only gets up to 500 degrees. My bread was perfect but my garlic was overlooked and bitter. I’m thinking this could be because of the oven temp. Do you have any recommendation?
Yay Victoria, glad you liked it!The garlic may have gotten a bit scorched, try mixing it through the dough next time.
Just made this omg used coriander instead of green onion it was amazingb
Epic Victoria, thanks for the feedback!
It looks awesome! No doubt about it. But I was a little disappointed when I didn’t see yogurt on the ingredient list. Doesn’t nan mean yogurt bread?
Not necessarily I don’t think Laura :)
This looks so delicious! I want to make them on the coming weekend. Have a silly question though. Do you lay them in a single layer on the baking tray or stack them up? Thank you!
You lay them on a single layer Yang, :)
Can you use a cast iron hot plate to cook or is it better in the oven?
Hi Brigette, I think that would work as long as each loaf is very thin, hope that helps :)
Is it really 1/2 cup of garlic? I’m excited to make this, but wanted to check.
Hi Heather, that’s correct but you can cut back if you like. I love it strong flavored :)
Hi there, I want to make this for dinner tonight. Can this recipe be used to bake in a loaf pan and then sliced? If so what tempreture would I use and for how long would I need to bake it?
Thanks
Hi Ila, no you can’t make this in a loaf pan, only on a flat baking sheet :)
But why doesn’t the yeast and warm water proof prior to adding all the ingredients? I currently have followed this recipe to the “T” and it is NOT raising. :( I have it in a warm oven, but I am not hopeful this will work. I am 67 years old and have made bread since I was 10 years old, have made naan many times – this recipe just doesn’t seem to be working. :(
Hi Lone, that’s strange. How fresh is your yeast? And the bread doesn’t rise that much, to begin with, it’s fairly flat.
It’s not meant to rise much
Can I cook in a pan on the oven using this,recipe?
Hi Tin, if the pan is big enough, sure!
This does not look like the flat beautiful
naan bread picture I tapped on to get to
your recipe. Your pictures shows some naan
bread that is a lot
thicker .
Hi Heather, I re-shot the pictures and went with a slightly bigger loaf size than before and didn’t flatten them as much. You can flatten them as much as you prefer.
I don’t know if it was because it was rainy outside but our time making this recipe was very wet dough. we had to use more like 7 cups of flour maybe more. Next time I make this i will be only using 1 1/2 cups water instead of 2 1/2 cups water. Hope this helps with others wanting to make this recipe.
Can I use a stand mixer wth dough hooks?
Yes, that would actually be the best way!