I’ve been developing this idea for a while and thought it’s about time that I shared it.
As I have ranted many times, I love the Origo stoves. My first was the single burner Origo 1500, and I have since upgraded to the Origo 3000 twin burner, oh wow, a brew with my breakfast, that’s amazing model. They are simply the best option for a gasless boat, but they do have limitations. There’s only so much you can cook in a pan, and since I’m very nearly in my 4th year of living on the boat, this was getting tiresome. I love curry, that is never tiresome, but curry needs naan bread, and I couldn’t heat it so I did without; you can’t fry a naan, afterall.
That was until I came up with this little idea.
Take a standard casserole dish. I’m pretty convinced a nice heavy caste iron dish would be much better for this job, but mine us a really cheap super-thin-walled-made-in-some-dubious-country version, and it works.
Next, get a tinfoil pie tray of roughly the same size as the casserole dish. My dish is about 8 inches, ooh err, and your standard pie seems to be about that too.
Stick the pie tray upside down in to the dish, and poke some holes in it with a sharp knife. The heat should, to my mind, transfer without the holes, but I seem to get better results when they’re there. This is to raise the contents of the “oven” away from the direct heat at the bottom of the pan which otherwise quickly starts burning.
Finally, break the bread up and stack it on the pie tray. Be careful to not let the bread touch the sides of the dish, or it will burn.
Stick it on the stove on a medium heat for about 20 mins with the casserole dish lid on, and it’s cooked perfectly. Just right for dipping in the curry simmering on the other burner. Yum!
This little invention doubles as a steamer too. If you poor a little water in to the bottom of the dish, you can cook ready meals intended for steaming in a microwave. Actually, you can probably steam anything.
So there you go, us single burner folk don’t have to suffer a life without naan.
Enjoy!
Mumchuck here,
As long as the Nan bread is of the pre-cooked supermarket variety, a good and tasty way to prepare these is to simply very shallow fry in butter untill warmed through. This is the way we have served them to you when on PJ. The slight problem is – Dont tell your Dietician!!!
Now to start making your own bread! You can probably do it the same way (I’d start with a mix)
Great to see you back Nathan.
I look forward to your posts.
Good luck for the future.
Will
Hi Nath what you have described is a verson of the pressure cooker as an oven the great thing about the pressure cooker is it is heavily built and holds the heat inside and you can find them cheaply at most op shops also they make a great heater for the boat as the heat radiates off them here is a link which you might be interested in cheers William
http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Bread-Anywhere%3A-%22Baking%22-bread-in-a-pressure-/
Love it!
Genius.