Naan over time
89 of the 107 recipes carry a publication date, from 2008 to 2026. Below: how many pages each year, whether the typical batch changed between the oldest and newest, and the oldest and newest pages themselves.
A date here is the one the page gives for itself: when it was published, or last updated. Sites often refresh an old recipe and its date together, so read these as when the pages went up, not when the recipes were created.
Recipes per year
Dated pages by the year they give. Shading marks the periods compared below.
How the typical batch changed
No ingredient shows a clear change between naan pages dated before 2022 and those dated 2022 or later. The medians move a little from period to period, but by no more than chance would with this many recipes.
| Per 100 g flour | Before 202246 recipes | 2022 and later43 recipes |
|---|---|---|
| LiquidNo clear change | 67% | 70% |
| FatNo clear change | 10% | 8.6% |
| SugarNo clear change | 1.3% | 1.4% |
| YeastNo clear change | 0.9% | 1.1% |
| Baking powder or sodaNo clear change | 0% | 0% |
| SaltNo clear change | 1.6% | 1.7% |
Each cell is the median baker's percentage in that period: grams of the ingredient per 100 g of flour. Higher and lower compare the newest period with the oldest, only where the change is clear (see how below). Periods are cut at year boundaries so each holds about the same number of recipes.
Oldest and newest pages
Oldest dates
May 21, 2008
Naans à la viande hachée · ptitchef.comJan 11, 2009
Recette de naans légers façon croque monsieur · ptitchef.comJan 29, 2009
Naan · melskitchencafe.comOct 19, 2009
Naan ... version sucree "double chocolat" · ptitchef.comMar 21, 2010
Naan au beurre pour accompagner le tajine · ptitchef.com
Newest dates
Apr 18, 2026
Sourdough Naan · biggerbolderbaking.comMar 24, 2026
Einfaches Naan Brot · gutekueche.atFeb 25, 2026
Pan Naan (receta fácil de pan plano indio) · pequerecetas.comFeb 3, 2026
Naan Brot - indisches Fladenbrot aus der Pfanne · malteskitchen.deJan 9, 2026
Garlic Naan · bakerbettie.com
How the dates are read
Each date is the publication date in the recipe page's own structured data. 12 of the 107 recipes have none, or one without a year (such as “December 3”), and are left out.
6 more carry a date their site gave to many pages at once, which marks a site move or redesign rather than a publication: 2021-02-05 on chainbaker.com (6 pages across Recipe Lab, 3 of them here), 2018-01-01 on tasteofhome.com (222 pages across Recipe Lab, 1 of them here) and 2022-10-07 on receitasnestle.com.br (25 pages across Recipe Lab, 1 of them here), and 1 more like it. They are left out too.
A change counts as clear when the newest period's median differs from the oldest period's by at least a tenth and a rank test puts the gap at 2.5 standard errors or more. For the share of recipes using an ingredient, the bar is 3 standard errors and 8 percentage points. Every ingredient is tested, so a lower bar would flag chance differences on most pages.
2026 is still in progress, so its bar is short for a reason that has nothing to do with baking.