tandoor
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tandoor
1655–65; < Hindi, Urdu tandūr < Persian tanūr
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While the former was delicate and thin, the latter was a thick, puffy flatbread baked in a tandoor.
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
“Unfortunately, there is no tandoor oven in your classroom. Still, there is a way to make traditional naan.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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
When I arrived, only samples of the tandoori tacos were available to try.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
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
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
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
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