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Adjective on an Indian menu
Answer for the clue "Adjective on an Indian menu ", 8 letters:
tandoori
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Etymology 2 a. (context of food English) cook in a tandoor. n. (context of food English) A dish that was cook in a tandoor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to a type of Indian cooking, 1958, from adjectival form of Urdu or Punjabi tandur "cooking stove," from Turkish tandur , from Turkish pronunciation of Arabic and Persian tannur "oven, portable furnace," of Semitic origin. As a noun by 1969.
Usage examples of tandoori.
I wondered who else bought Beth tandoori chicken and took her home to this public farewell Laertes, Horatio, King Claudius, or even the gravedigger?
Marlboros, dirty dishes with remains of the tandoori take-away a pair of very expensive-looking panties that she cheerfully bins, ditto various discarded makeup articles in the bathroom.
The pizza caught his eye, but he picked up the container of East Indian tandoori instead and popped it in the microwave.
Basmati rice, lentils, green salad, okra, nan bread, tandoori chicken.
Tony, at her right hand, poked idly at the bones of his tandoori chicken.