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The Arabic name for tandoor bread is ḵubz al-tannūr ('bread of the tannur ' Arabic: خبز التنور). In some places where it is especially common, such as Iraq, it may be called simply khubz (bread). [7] It is similar to, or in some cases the same as, taboon bread. In Iran, tandoor breads are known as nân-e-tanūri (Persian: نان ...
Tandyr nan is a type of Central Asian bread [1] [2] cooked in a vertical clay oven, the tandyr or tandoor. It is circular and leavened with yeast, and typically has a crisp golden surface. They are often decorated by stamping patterns on the dough, and can be topped with ingredients like sesame seeds, nigella seeds, or thinly sliced onion. [3]
Lavash (Armenian: լավաշ; Persian: نان لواش) is a thin flatbread [8] usually leavened, traditionally baked in a tandoor (tonir or tanoor) or on a sajj, and common to the cuisines of South Caucasus, West Asia, and the areas surrounding the Caspian Sea.
The bread plays a starring role at weddings, with elaborate rules to govern the baking process: Traditionally, a happily married woman must mix the dough, and a married man slides the round loaf ...
The earliest mention of naan in the region comes from the memoirs of Indo-Persian Sufi poet Amir Khusrau living in India during the 1300s AD. Khusrau mentions two kinds of naan eaten by Muslim nobles; Naan-e-Tunuk and Naan-e-Tanuri. Naan-e-Tunuk was a light or thin bread, while Naan-e-Tanuri was a heavy bread and was baked in the tandoor. [9]
Shirmal is a mildly sweet naan made out of maida, leavened with yeast and baked in a tandoor or oven. Shirmal was traditionally made like roti. Today, shirmal is prepared like naan. The warm water in the recipe for naan roti was replaced with warm milk sweetened with sugar and flavored with saffron and cardamom.
Khubz, alternatively transliterated as khoubz, khobez, khubez, or khubooz, [clarification needed] is the usual word for "bread" in Standard Arabic and in many of the vernaculars. Among the breads popular in Middle Eastern countries are "pocket" pita bread in the Levant and Egypt , and the flat tannur bread in Iraq .
A coal-fired tandoor with a mild steel drum.. The English word comes from the Hindustani tandūr, which came from Persian tanūr and ultimately from the Akkadian word tinūru (𒋾𒂟), which consists of the parts tin ' mud ' and nuro / nura ' fire ' and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, cf. or Avestan tanûra and Middle Persian tanûr.