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A tandoor is a cylindrical oven, traditionally made of clay, that is heated with fire to cook food. It is widely used in South Asian cuisine for baking breads like naan and for roasting meats and vegetables.
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- Subclass of
- oven
- Part of
- Turkish cuisine
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Country of origin
- China
- Location
- Azerbaijan
- Image
- Naan Flatbread inside Tandoor 03.jpg
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- intangible cultural heritage status
- Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
- Commons category
- Tandoor
- different from
- Tabun oven
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14 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Operation
- Types
- Arab world: tannour / tannur
- West Asia and South Asia
- Armenian tonir
- Turkmen ''tamdyr''
- Punjabi tandoor
- Azerbaijani tandir
- Georgian tone
- Dishes
- See also
- References
- Further reading
upright=1.2|thumb|Modern ceramic wood-fired tandoors
A tandoor ( or ) is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay. Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti and traditional lavash, as well as leavened ones, such as naan and tandoor bread or matnakash. It is also used to roast meat and vegetables. Tandoors are predominantly used in South Asia, Western Asia, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa.
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