tandoor
Americannoun
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tandoors,
plural
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tandoori
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tandoor
1655–65; < Hindi, Urdu tandūr < Persian tanūr
Example Sentences
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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
Before the crackdown started, the Afghan ran a tandoor business.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024
It’s an essential component of some of the dishes at Bryant Ng’s Cassia in Santa Monica, where 20% of the dishes are cooked using a wok or a tandoor oven, both powered by gas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Fry bread, responsible for the 12-seat bar, counts time at Elle, Columbia Room and the esteemed Rasika West End, where he met Sundas, the former tandoor chef there.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021
He was placing dough on a large wooden spatula and slapping it against the walls of the tandoor.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Veeraswamy introduced the UK's first tandoor oven that decade - and a 1959 menu offers chicken tandoori for the equivalent of 52p in pre-decimal currency.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
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
It consisted of a soft taco shell topped with shredded cheese, a medley of shaved vegetables and tandoori chicken that was made using Shan’s Tandoori Masala spice mix.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
You can’t miss the charred curds on tandoori chicken, the crisp edges on a lasagna, the ripe flesh of a peach.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2024
He’s eaten his tandoori roast chicken, but the curried peas and potatoes are piled in a lumpy hill on the side of his plate.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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
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