: a cylindrical clay oven in which food is cooked over charcoal
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When the inspector returned for re-inspection, Raja came up short by 20 rodent droppings between the tandoor oven and the walk-in cooler.—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025 Cooking Bulgogi-Style Tofu July 10, 2022 Tuesday Zaynab Issa brought us a terrific new recipe for malai chicken, a warmly spiced and yogurt-marinated dinner that’s traditionally cooked in a tandoor or served as a curry.—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 4 May 2025 The menu offers beef, lamb and chicken dishes such as a layered tandoor samsa – tender chunks of beef marinated in aromatic spices and cooked in a traditional tandoor oven – and lamb plov, which is savory lamb cooked with aromatic spices and tender rice.—Alexandra Maloney, Charlotte Observer, 21 Mar. 2025 Sameer Farooq’s Flatbread Library, a large-scale sculpture of baked goods made in tandoors by Toronto’s south and southwest Asian bakeries, neatly visualizes food migration.—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for tandoor
Word History
Etymology
Hindi & Urdu tandūr, tannūr, from Persian tanūr, from Arabic tannūr
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