tandoor
/ˈtandʊə
/ /tanˈdʊə / /ˈtandɔː/ /tanˈdɔː/noun
A clay oven of a type used originally in northern India and Pakistan.The restaurant also has a tandoor in their kitchen, which allows the chiefs to make Indian style barbecue of various flavours....
- Since breads play a major role in Indian cuisine, the restaurant imported mud from specific regions of India to make the tandoor, influencing the taste to some extent.
- The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
Origin
From Urdu tandūr, from Persian tanūr, based on Arabic tannūr 'oven'.
Rhymes
- interlanguage
- interlap
- interlard
- interlay
- interlayer
- interleading
- interleaf
- interleave
- interleukin
- interlibrary
- interlibrary loan
- interline
- interlinear
- interlineate
- interlineation
- interlingua
- interlingual
- interlining
- interlink
- interlinkage
- interlobular
- interlock
- interlocker
- interlock fabric
- interlocution