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Tandoor vs Tandoori - What's the difference?

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Tandoori is a related term of tandoor.



As a noun tandoor

is a cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.

As an adjective tandoori is

cooked in a tandoor.

tandoor

Noun

(tandoors)
  • A cylindrical clay oven used, in the cuisine of the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, to make flat bread, or to cook meat.
  • * 2001 , Martin Hughes, World Food: India (Lonely Planet), page 53
  • You can cook naan in a normal oven, but the results will inevitably disappoint; even Indians generally wait to savour them in restaurants, as very few homes are equipped with a tandoor .

    tandoori

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of food) Cooked in a tandoor.