Naan Lab · Calculator

Design your own naan

The sliders start at the typical batch: the median of 107 recipes for each ingredient, in grams per 100 g of flour. Move any of them within the range that 90% of recipes use (the 5th to the 95th percentile) and the grams update, with where your choice sits among the recipes and what that ingredient does.

This scales ratios; it is not a tested recipe. Each ingredient moves on its own against the flour, and a combination no recipe uses may not cook the way you expect. For the method, pan and heat, follow the real recipes nearest your numbers.

Flour

Flour weight (g)

300 g, about 2 1/3 cups, makes one typical batch.

Start from a recipe

Load a real recipe's percentages into the sliders. Search by title or site.

Grams per 100 g of flour

Liquid
205 g · 68%about 3/4 cup
In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 48% less.
Yogurt, milk and water together. Yogurt makes the dough tender and a little tangy.
Fat
26 g · 8.6%about 2 tbsp
In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 49% less.
Oil, ghee or butter in the dough; the butter brushed on after cooking is an extra.
Sugar
4 g · 1.4%about 1 tsp
In the middle: 42% of recipes use more, 47% less.
A little sugar feeds the yeast and helps blistering.
Yeast
3 g · 1%
In the middle: 48% of recipes use more, 49% less.
Most recipes rise with yeast; quick versions skip it for baking powder.
Baking powder or soda
none · 0%
None, like 60% of recipes.
Baking powder or soda, alone or alongside yeast, puffs the bread in a hot pan.
Salt
5 g · 1.6%
In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 43% less.
About 1 to 2%.

Your naan

Your naan in grams, with approximate volumes
Ingredient	Grams
Flour	300 gabout 2 1/3 cups
Liquidmilk, buttermilk, yogurt, cream and water	205 gabout 3/4 cup
Fatbutter, oil and shortening	26 gabout 2 tbsp
Sugarwhite sugar, brown sugar, honey and syrups	4 gabout 1 tsp
Yeast	3 g
Baking powder or sodabaking soda and baking powder	none
Salt	5 g
Total	543 g

543 g in all from 300 g of flour, counting only the groups above.

Closest real recipe: Naan Recipe (Indian Bread) (spiceupthecurry.com).

The 3 real recipes nearest your numbers

Measured on liquid, fat, sugar, yeast, baking powder or soda and salt at once. These are published, tested recipes: follow one for its method, pan and timing, or load its percentages and adjust from there.

1
Naan Recipe (Indian Bread) · spiceupthecurry.com
liquid 72% · fat 8.7% · sugar 2.7% · yeast 1% · baking powder or soda 0.4% · salt 1.9%
2
Naan aux haricots blancs et aux épinards · chefsimon.com
liquid 61% · fat 11% · sugar 0.8% · yeast 1.1% · baking powder or soda 0% · salt 1.2%
3
Pain indien plat "naan" · chefsimon.com
liquid 61% · fat 11% · sugar 0.8% · yeast 1.1% · baking powder or soda 0% · salt 1.2%

How the calculator works

Every recipe is reduced to baker's percentages: grams of each ingredient group per 100 g of flour. The starting point is the median of all 107 recipes for each group separately, so no single recipe is exactly the starting batch. Grams are your flour weight times each percentage, rounded to the nearest 5 g above 50 g and the nearest gram or half gram below.

“More than 80% of recipes” counts the recipes with strictly less of that ingredient per gram of flour. The nearest recipes are measured on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it, so a wide-ranging ingredient does not outweigh a narrow one.

Only the groups listed are counted. Vanilla, spices, mix-ins and toppings are left out unless they have their own slider. Volumes are approximate: flour at 125 g a cup, sugar 200 g, butter or oil 225 g, milk and other liquids 240 g.