For those of you coming to this recipe after seeing our cooking demo at the Long Island Garlic Festival this past weekend, welcome! We’re glad you liked our demo/free samples enough to try making this recipe yourself.  I hope you’ll check out and try some of our other recipes as well.

Most people’s experience with naan is from eating it in Indian restaurants. Naan is a leavened flatbread that originated in Asia.  Traditionally it is baked in a clay oven called a tandoor, but since we, and I’m assuming most of you, don’t have a tandoor we’ve taken to cooking it on the grill.  And if you don’t have a grill, or the weather isn’t conducive to grilling outdoors, you can also use a cast iron grill pan.  Trust me –  you’re going to want to find a way to make this naan.  It’s garlicky, and buttery, and delicious.   And it goes great with chicken tikka.

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