Sheermal Naan. Sheermal is a mildly sweet naan made out of maida, leavened with yeast, baked in a tandoor or oven. Sheermal was traditionally made like roti. Today, sheermal is prepared like naan.
Sheermal is a mildly sweet, saffron flavoured naan popular in the Indo Pak sub continent.
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Sheermal is a mildly-sweet, saffron-flavoured naan popular in the Indo-Pak sub-continent.
You can have Sheermal Naan using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Sheermal Naan
- It's 3 cups of all purpose flour.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of milk.
- It's 1/2 cup of Butter / Ghee.
- It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
- You need 1 of egg.
- It's 2 pinch of salt.
- You need 1 teaspoon of instant dry yeast.
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of white sesame seeds.
- It's 1 teaspoon of black sesame seeds.
While this Moghul delight is traditionally prepared in a tandoor, it can also be comfortably prepared in a Tava in the convenience of your own kitchen. Using warm milk and spices in the dough gives it a really rich flavour, which makes this usable as a main course as well as a standalone snack that you. Sheermal or Shirmal, is a saffron-flavored traditional flatbread made in the Indian subcontinent. It is one of the several rare Lucknow and Hyderabadi delicacies in India.
Sheermal Naan step by step
- First in a mixing bowl add milk, egg, butter / ghee, sugar, salt and whisk well..
- Now add dry yeast, add maida and mix well.dough should be soft.add little oil and knead the dough again for 5 mins. Once the dough is ready,apply a tsp of oil and cover the dough bowl with plastic wrap and keep in a warm place for at least 1 hour. (till double in size)..
- After an hour, place the dough in a greased baking plate and spread it with your hands, and pierce it round with fingers or with a fork as shown in the pic..
- Now mix one egg and little milk in a bowl, and apply it on the prepared naan with the help of a brush. Sprinkle white sesame and black sesame on top and cover the baking plate and keep it for 10 minutes to rest/rise again..
- Now place the baking plate in a preheated microwave oven and bake for 25-30 minutes (until golden).180℃. Sheermal naan is ready..
It is also part of the Awadhi cuisine. Sheermal is a mildly sweet, saffron flavoured naan which has a naan texture. Sheermal شیرمال also written as Shirmal or Shyrmal, is a popular, light sweet with saffron flavor flatbread, cooked in Pakistan, Iran, Bangladesh and India. In India, shirmal is mainly cooked in Persian population areas like Lucknow and Hyderabad. Shirmal is also known to be a part of Awadhi cuisine.
