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Naan-e-Tunuk was a light or thin bread, while Naan-e-Tanuri was a heavy bread and was baked in the tandoor. [9] During India’s Mughal era in the 1520s, naan was a delicacy that only nobles and royal families enjoyed because of the lengthy process of making leavened bread and because the art of making naan was a revered skill known by few.
Tandyr nan is a type of Central Asian bread [1] [2] cooked in a vertical clay oven, the tandyr or tandoor. It is circular and leavened with yeast, and typically has a crisp golden surface. They are often decorated by stamping patterns on the dough, and can be topped with ingredients like sesame seeds, nigella seeds, or thinly sliced onion. [3]
Shirmal is a mildly sweet naan made out of maida, leavened with yeast and baked in a tandoor or oven. Shirmal was traditionally made like roti. Today, shirmal is prepared like naan. The warm water in the recipe for naan roti was replaced with warm milk sweetened with sugar and flavored with saffron and cardamom.
Naan Qalia is a dish that originates from Aurangabad, in India. It is a concoction of mutton and a variety of spices. Naan is a bread made in a tandoor (hot furnace), while khaliya is a mixture of mutton or beef and various spices.
The traditional recipe can be adapted to the modern kitchen by using a griddle or wok instead of the tonir. [ 13 ] In 2014, "Lavash, the preparation, meaning and appearance of traditional bread as an expression of culture in Armenia" was inscribed in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity . [ 14 ]
In Afghanistan and northeastern Iran, these biscuits are called کلچهٔ خطائی kulcha-i khaṭāʾī in Persian (kulcha is a type of Afghan, Iranian and Indian bread similar to nān). [4] It is also a mispronunciation of نانِ کوتاہ naan-e-koṭah – shortbread where نان naan means Bread, and کوتاہ koṭah means short. [5]
The term kulcha is Persian and describes a disc-shaped loaf of bread, bun or even biscuit. [1] [3] However, in India this term came to be associated with round breads popularized during the British colonial period. [4] In some parts of India, naan or tandoori parantha is often confused with kulcha.
Taftan or taftoon (Persian: تافتان) is a leavened flour bread from Iran, introduced to Kuwaiti and South Asian cuisines. [1] It is made with refined flour, milk, yoghurt, and eggs and baked in a clay oven. [1] It is sometimes flavoured with saffron and a small amount of cardamom powder, and may be decorated with seeds such as poppy seeds. [2]