Thank you to Cherylann Mollan BBC Online News for the Headline
Yes I love Naan’s too, apparently it all started in the courts of Islamic Kings and not the Ayatollah’s viscious , cruel and corrupt courts that we all know from the news.
However, it is a far reaching proposition to say that only the Chefs of Islamic Kings made Naans, possibly their subjects were nomadic and didn’t have very good access to clay ovens or hygienic ways to prepare the dough and cook it but I’m sure if they had the wheat to make flour that the Nomads used to prepare them too. Possibly they put the prepared dough on the back of a donkey and travelled off to their next destination while the Naan puffed up under the hot sun and the warmth of the donkey’s back, only to be popped in a borrowed clay oven on arrival at their destination or possibly cooked on sunbaked hot pebbles.
Today Naan is made by combining flour , yogurt and yeast into a soft, malleable dough, these can be either baked in an oven, grilled or fried in a large pan. They are so easy to make.
The Naan is how I think of the Indian prepared bread and the Flatbread( a variation of the theme) is how the simple ingredients and method of making has developed. I am grateful that the Ayatollah had nothing to do with them which on first reading the Headline was what struck me. Silly me.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading. 🙏
thenotsomightyom 