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Why You Should Get an In-house Tandoor for Your Kitchen!

The term tandoor describes a south-west Asian oven that doesn’t require gas or electricity and runs on a natural source of heat - ‘charcoal’. The cylindrical shaped and drum sized oven can easily be in seen in southwestern regions of Asia and getting much popularity in European and Western countries. The main dishes which are cooked or baked in it called tandoori, for example, a chicken cooked in a tandoor is usually called as ‘tandoori chicken’ and so the case with other dishes such as tandoori naan and tandoori roti are a couple of popular breads of North India.

The food cooked in Tandoor gets a unique smoky flavor which is generated due to the design of this stove made of clay from inside. The stove requires a moderate amount of lit pieces of raw coal at the base. As it cooks the meals keeping them inside, the juices of the cooking material fall onto the burning coals, the process generates deliciously flavored smoke, this smoke then gets added to the meal making it more of mouth-watering food. Now, if you really want to impress your husband, family, friends, or guests through your own cocked and finger licking good food, a residential tandoor in your kitchen is a must.

If we talk about the temperature, the warmth or heat in a basic tandoor is usually produced by burning up a few wooden pieces or charcoal inside the tandoor itself. A cook can create a temperature of around 900°F inside the tandoor and it is capable of holding this much high temperature for a longer period of time.


The normal meals and the most commonly cooked foods in any tandoor are basically originated from India, Pakistan, Afghan, and Iran and the meals are tandoori chicken, tandoori chap, chicken tikka and breads like tandoori naan and roti. The most popular ‘chicken tikka’ is an Asia specific southeastern meal prepared through a process of grilling small chunks of chicken, before grilling these pieces are usually seasoned with yogurt and spices. The chunks, specifically boneless are cooked in tandoor with the help of skewers and served with green coriander chutney. 

Genuinely, it is quite hard to find a close substitute of a tandoor; however, the world has a few alternatives. Barbecue could be used as a good alternative, specifically in the case where a grill can be used for cooking and that lets food juices to fall down onto the coals. The impact couldn’t exactly be the same as of a tandoor, yet the final taste would approximately be enough reasonable.

Just like the barbecue, the demand of the tandoor increased unstoppable, with Indian and Pakistani foods establishment giving delicious tandoori meals and foods to several visitors around the globe. The tandoori combinations and collections have gone ahead to highlight a wide range of meats, shellfish, fish, fowl, vegetables, and even cheeses and fruits its allure keeps on raising altogether every day.

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