tandoor
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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
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
A petite space located across from Piazza Park and the Renton Pavilion Events Center, Rice-N-Curry showcases all of Kaur’s favorite dishes: rich butter chicken, chicken biryani, yogurt-marinated reshmi tandoor paneer, bhuna gosht with lamb.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
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
For me, the tandoori chicken was the star of the show and its flavors made me nostalgic for my mom’s home cooking.
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
And fresh tandoori pomfret and crepe suzette on their menu.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
