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Oven in an Indian restaurant
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tandoor
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Turkish pronunciation of Persian and Arabic tannur "oven, portable furnace" (see tandoori ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term tandoor refers to a variety of ovens, the most commonly known is a cylindrical clay or metal oven used in cooking and baking. The tandoor is used for cooking in Southern , Central and Western Asia , as well as in the Caucasus . The heat for a tandoor ...
Usage examples of tandoor.
He and I were once forcibly ejected from a Halifax restaurant called Chicken Tandoor for persistent punning.
Last month she told my friend that she was going to write a new ,cookbook about something totally different, about wood-fire cooking, barbeque plus pit and fireplace cooking and tandoors in India, all that stuff.
He could see the threads of smoke rising from the hundreds of tandoors set up specially for the feast, a slender plume that would be visible for a dozen yojanas rising into the ocean blue sky.
Tandoor in Cleveland, in the torpid afterglow of Jhinga Biryani, lightly spiced rice and shrimp, Baigan Bharta, rich and pungent roasted eggplant, Palak Raita, a spinach and yogurt condiment that cools the palate, and the wondrous Indian bread naan.