Re: RECIPE: Chicken Tikka

[Guest guest]

Is a tandoor an oven? Or what? THX... Annie

>

.... " Put the chicken

> on to skewers and cook in moderately hot tandoor

> for about 6 to 8 minutes. "

[Guest guest]

Is a tandoor an oven? Or what? THX... Annie

>

.... " Put the chicken

> on to skewers and cook in moderately hot tandoor

> for about 6 to 8 minutes. "

[Guest guest]

> Is a tandoor an oven? Or what? THX... Annie

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Tandoor

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A tandoor is a cylindrical clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan in

which food is cooked over a hot charcoal fire. Temperatures in a tandoor can

approach 480°C (900°F). It is not uncommon for tandoor ovens to remain lit for

long periods of time to maintain the high cooking temperature.

The word tandoor comes from the Hindi words tandūr and tannūr; these derive

from the Persian tanūr, which comes from the Arabic word tannūr, from which

Turkish word Tandır (which has the same meaning as explained in the article)

originates. It is used for cooking certain types of Indian food, such as

tandoori chicken and bread varieties like tandoori roti and naan. (The word

tandoori is the adjective form.) Some modern day tandoors use electricity or gas

instead of charcoal.

To see how to build yours, visit http://www.tandoors.co.uk/

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I'd probably use a grill, myself, and just adjust the time accordingly. I

suppose you could use an oven as well although I don't know it would necessarily

mimic the tandoor quite as well as the real thing....