tandoori
noun/tænˈdʊəri/
/tɑːnˈdʊri/
[uncountable]- (often used as an adjective) a method of cooking meat on a long straight piece of metal (called a spit) in a clay oven called a tandoor /ˈtændʊə(r)//tɑːnˈdʊr/, originally used in South Asia
- tandoori chicken
- a tandoori restaurant
Word Originfrom Urdu and Persian tandūri, from tandūr, based on Arabic tannūr ‘oven’.Definitions on the go
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