Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

except when we ate at an Indian
restaurant. Naan is a leavened bread
made of processed white flour and
cooked in a tandoor (clay oven). No one
I know in India or in the States owns an
oven like this. The daily bread of choice
in Indian homes is roti, which is also
called chapati or phulka. Like a tortilla,
it’s an unleavened bread made on the
stovetop. It’s healthy, delicious, and less
fattening than naan. The main reason
naan has overshadowed roti is because
of Indian restaurants, which always like
to showcase their tandoors and, of
course, the naan that comes out of them.
Next time you’re in an Indian restaurant,
ask for tandoori roti. It’s a whole-wheat
roti puffed up in a tandoor—as