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Tandoori masala or tandoori sauce is a mixture of spices specifically for use with a tandoor, or clay oven, in traditional cooking in the Indian subcontinent. The specific spices vary somewhat from one region to another but typically include: garam masala , garlic , ginger , onion , cayenne pepper , and sometimes other spices and additives.
Tandoori chicken being prepared in a tandoor oven. Raw chicken parts are skinned then marinated in a mixture of dahi (yogurt) and tandoori masala, a spice blend. They are seasoned and colored with cayenne pepper, red chili powder, or Kashmiri red chili powder as well as turmeric or food coloring. [a]
Punjabi tandoori cooking [note 1] comes from the clay oven known as the tandoor. [1] According to Macveigh [2008] the Punjab tandoor originated in the local region. [ 2 ] It is a clay oven and is traditionally used to cook Punjabi cuisine , from the Punjab region in Pakistan and northwestern India .
Tandoori roti is cooked by sticking the flattened dough to the inside wall of a tandoor oven, where it bakes quickly at a high temperature. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Chapatis are made of whole-wheat flour known as atta , mixed into a dough with water, edible oil and optional salt in a mixing utensil called a parat , and is cooked on a tava (flat skillet).
Tandoori style of cooking involves use of the tandoor. [10] In India, tandoori cooking is traditionally associated with Punjab [ 11 ] as Punjabis embraced the tandoor on a regional level. [ 12 ] This style of cooking became popular throughout India after the 1947 partition when Punjabis resettled in places such as Delhi.
[Riddell says: "Country-captain.—Cut a fowl in pieces; shred an onion small and fry it brown in butter; sprinkle the fowl with fine salt and curry powder and fry it brown; then put it into a stewpan with a pint of soup; stew it slowly down to a half and serve it with rice" (Ind. Dom. Econ. 176).]
When using multiple ingredients in tempering, they are often added in succession, with those requiring longer cooking added earlier, and those requiring less cooking added later. In Oriya cuisine and Bengali cuisine , mixtures of whole spices called pancha phutaṇa or panch phoron , respectively, are used for this purpose.
Pakistani food makes use of fresh, hand-pounded masalas. Ghee is used, but the main component of the meal or a dish is meat (beef, lamb, chicken, goat, or fish), and vegetables are sparingly used. Surprisingly, Pakistani food also makes extensive use of olive oil. Sparingly used vegetables does not mean there is no vegetarian food on the menu.