Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Oasis Naan

Twice a month the Tuesdays with Dorie crowd bakes from Baking with Julia.  This week the recipe is Oasis Naan, a flat bread made of a very plain dough, seasoned with coarse salt, scallions, and cumin before it goes into the oven.  It's supposed to be a FLAT bread.  To make it flat, you roll it out and prick it determinedly with a fork.  Actually, you're supposed to use a special tool.  Perhaps the tool really is important, because mine were rather poofy.
Or maybe too much yeast.  Or maybe mine was determined to be poofy -- take a look at the bubble that formed when the dough was rising:

I chose to let the bread dough rise overnight in the fridge.
It rose beautifully and grew an impressive bubble!

I divided the dough into 8 more or less equal parts and let them come to room temperature.

Rolled them out, dribbled on water, pricked them, sprinkled on salt, scallions and cumin.
Into the oven on the pizza stone.

They came out poofy.  Here they are, cooling off.

Served warm with hummus, olives, carrot, celery and red pepper sticks,
stuffed grape leaves, mushroom & tomato bruschetta with parmesan . . .  

. . . an assortment of cheese and a bottle of wine!


A delightful dinner!

6 comments:

  1. Can I come to your house for dinner? What a beautiful spread. You my friend got it right!!

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  2. I think a lot of us had poofy naan, but it was delicious just the same. I love your pictures and your dinner looks great, too.

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  3. Looks like you had a great meal!

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  4. My naan turned out poofy as well, but they sure did taste good! Your meal looks good and just right for a light summer spread.

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  5. Such a nice pairing with all the tapas style items. Looks great!

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