Naan is a leavened flatbread — unlike roti or chapati, the dough contains a raising agent and usually yogurt or milk, which is what gives it its soft, slightly chewy texture and puffed blisters. The dough is rested, stretched by hand into a teardrop and slapped onto the wall of a very hot tandoor, where it cooks in a minute or two. For garlic naan, chopped garlic is pressed into the surface before baking and the finished bread is brushed with butter or ghee and scattered with fresh coriander.
It comes out hot, pliable and freckled with char, with the garlic toasted into the crust rather than sitting raw on top. Naan is a tool as much as a side: you tear it and use it to scoop, which makes it the standard order with a gravy dish such as paneer butter masala or dal makhani. It is also good for wiping up the sauce from chilli paneer, and a piece of naan alongside veg biryani rounds out a rice-based meal.
Cafe Junoon bakes naan to order for dine-in guests at 110 Corner Meadows Manor NE in Cornerstone, Northeast Calgary, and wraps it for takeout so it stays warm on the way home. Add it to an online order for pickup or local delivery to Skyview Ranch, Redstone, Cityscape, Saddle Ridge, Savanna, Martindale, Taradale and other nearby NE communities, or include it with catering for house parties and office lunches. See the full menu or contact us for larger orders.
