Sheermal bread: Persian Naan Bread:. Sheermal/shirmal bread naan نان شیرمال is a traditional mildly sweet flatbread in Iran. Sheer means milk in Persian language,and because the dough is kneaded with milk instead of water , it's called sheermal, means a bread made with milk. Sheermal bread is popular in Iran, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
South Asian food is greatly influenced by the Central Asian and Persian cuisines. In a large bowl mix milk, egg, melted butter and sugar. Sheermal is a delicately rich saffron scented flatbread, made soft with the use of ghee (clarified butter). You can have Sheermal bread: Persian Naan Bread: using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Sheermal bread: Persian Naan Bread:
- Prepare 3 cups of all purpose flour.
- You need 1 cup of warm milk.
- It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 100 g of melted butter.
- You need 1 of large egg, beaten.
- You need 1 of egg yolk, beaten (egg wash).
- You need 1 Tbsp of dried yeast.
- It's of Sesame seeds & nigella seeds (optional).
- It's 1/2 tsp of salt.
- It's as needed of More warm milk.
The use of the saffron makes it a Regal Item and it is great with most Tandoori Style Recipes. This dish comes from the Hyderabadi Nawabi cuisine, which is influenced greatly by Mughlai Cuisine. Sheermal, also known as Shirmal or popularly known as Naan ki roti across Hyderabad. It is a slightly sweet naan/flatbread made with all-purpose flour (Maida).
Sheermal bread: Persian Naan Bread: instructions
- In a bowl, mix sugar, yeast, and warm milk together. In another bowl mix flour with salt and then pour milk mixture in flour add Beaten egg, and melted butter in it. Combine together..
- Grease your hands with oil and knead the dough with your hands for 6-7 minutes until is smooth and no longer sticky. Cover the dough, and let to rest until double in size..
- Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line your baking tray with parchment paper and once dough is ready, place it on the parchment paper. Sprinkle some flour top of it and deflate the dough..(see in pics) Cover the dough and let to rest for another 20 minut Then give favourite decoration or design to the bread. Egg wash top of bread and garnish with sesame seeds & nigella seeds. Transfer the dough into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown. Enjoy !.
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This flatbread is baked in a tandoor or oven and is a most common dish in the Middle East and Asian countries and also among Pakistan and India. Shirmal or Sheermal is a traditional saffron flavored bread. It is still very popular in Iran, Pakistan and india. Shirmal is a mildly sweet naan made out of maida, leavened with yeast, baked in a tandoor or oven. Shirmal was traditionally made like roti.