Naan

Naan:

An oven-baked flatbread.  In Iran it is the generic word for bread.  In other parts of South Asia it refers to a specific kind of thick flatbread.  It is cooked in a tandoori oven.  Served hot and usually brushed with butter or ghee.  Used to scoop other foods or can be stuffed with a filling.  It's earliest recording in literature dates back to 1810.

 

 

*citing Wikipedia as a source.  Kind of.