tandoor
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The naan is then placed in a very hot tandoor until it puffs up and brown spots appear.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
He installed just a few tables and a brilliantly hot well of a tandoor oven, which he learned to man in a sweaty process of trial and error.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Blistered in the tandoor, the fluffy naan helps erase the last of any sauce.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
Uyghur poetry spelled out in Arabic letters is displayed in restaurants that serve hand-pulled noodles and samsa, lamb-filled buns baked in tandoor ovens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
When Jalil entered the clearing, he would throw his jacket on the tandoor and open his arms.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Size is also an issue at Tamarind Tribeca, an Indian restaurant in New York that makes tandoori turkey, a variation of the chicken dish also prepared in a vertical oven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
He also recalled how their relationship was sealed "over a tandoori chicken masala, four poppadoms and three pints of lager" after meeting on TV drama The Gambling Man in 1992.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
When it comes to Indian dishes, popular non-traditional, “Americanized” foods include butter chicken, tandoori chicken, chicken tikka masala, palak paneer and samosas.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
The two families both say that it was their own Kundan who invented butter chicken — the creamy, heavenly marriage of tandoori chicken and tomato gravy beloved everywhere north Indian food is served.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
When the music comes back on, waiters appear with appetizers and plate after heaping plate of mouthwatering food—biryani and kebabs and tandoori chicken and samosas.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Meanwhile, masalas will continue to get toasted, meats will continue to sizzle on the tandoors, and ghee will continue to glaze rotis in kitchens all over the world.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2021
Two glowing tandoors fuel the lunch crowd at this unpretentious downtown standby, but the most affordable option isn’t wrapped in warm flatbread.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2017
Ananta, the Oberoi Dubai’s Indian specialty restaurant, boasts a show kitchen with traditional tandoors and specializes in North Indian signature dishes, as well as a daily selection of Indian coastal specialties.
From Forbes ● Dec. 29, 2014
