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Modern ceramic wood-fired tandoors. A Pakistani tandoor. A tandoor (/ t æ n ˈ d ʊər / or / t ɑː n ˈ d ʊər /) is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay.Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti and naan, as well as to roast meat.
Punjabi tandoori cooking [note 1] comes from the clay oven known as the tandoor. [1] According to Macveigh [2008] the Punjab tandoor originated in the local region. [2] It is a clay oven and is traditionally used to cook Punjabi cuisine, from the Punjab region in Pakistan and northwestern India.
Cooking food in a tandoor oven has been done for about five millennia. Remains of a clay oven with indication of cooked food have been excavated in the Indus River valley site of Kalibangan, [2] and other places in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, northwest India, Iran, Iraq and Central Asia.
Tandoori chicken is a dish made from chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and roasted in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven.The dish is now popular worldwide. The modern form of the dish was popularized by the Moti Mahal restaurant in New Delhi, India in the late 1940s.
The traditional Punjabi bhathis used in the Punjab region are constructed as follows: a hole is dug in the ground and a cylindrical opening is constructed at the far end of the hole for the smoke [2] to escape from the bhathi.
India Pakistan Bangladesh: Unleavened, made by pan frying whole wheat dough, ghee or cooking oil usually in dough and on done loaves, usually stuffed with vegetables or cheese, served with butter, chutney, spicy sauces or curries of meat and vegetables. Parotta: Flatbread India A common layered flatbread of South India. Also known as a barotta ...
Naan (/ n ɑː n /) is a leavened, oven-baked or tawa-fried flatbread, that can also be baked in a tandoor. It is characterized by a light and fluffy texture and golden-brown spots from the baking process. [1] Naan is found in the cuisines of Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. [2] [3] [4]
According to Ahmed (2014), Harappan oven structures may have operated in a similar manner to the modern tandoors of the Punjab. [ 6 ] Basmati rice is the indigenous variety of Punjab, and various meat- and vegetable-based rice dishes have been developed using it.