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Tandoori chicken is a dish made from chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and roasted in a tandoor, a cylindrical clay oven.The dish is now popular worldwide. The modern form of the dish was popularized by the Moti Mahal restaurant in New Delhi, India in the late 1940s.
A coal-fired tandoor with a mild steel drum.. The English word comes from the Hindustani tandūr, which came from Persian tanūr and ultimately from the Akkadian word tinūru (𒋾𒂟), which consists of the parts tin ' mud ' and nuro / nura ' fire ' and is mentioned as early as in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh, cf. or Avestan tanûra and Middle Persian tanûr.
Map of South India. According to culinary historians K. T. Achaya and Ammini Ramachandran, the ancient Sangam literature dated from 3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE offers early references to food and recipes during Sangam era, whether it's a feast at king's palace, meals in towns and countryside, at hamlets in forests, pilgrimage and the rest-houses during travels.
Paneer tikka or Paneer Soola [1] or Chhena Soola is an Indian dish made from chunks of paneer/ chhena marinated in spices and grilled in a tandoor. [2] [3] It is a vegetarian alternative to chicken tikka and other meat dishes. [4] [5] [6] It is a popular dish that is widely available in India and countries with an Indian diaspora. [7] [8]
Indian migration has spread the culinary traditions of the subcontinent throughout the world. These cuisines have been adapted to local tastes, and have also affected local cuisines. The international appeal of curry has been compared to that of pizza. [237] Indian tandoor dishes such as chicken tikka also enjoy widespread popularity. [238]
This Persian manuscript features ten chapters, on nānhā (breads), āsh-hā (pottages), qalīyas and dopiyāzas (dressed meat dishes), bhartas, zerbiryāns (a kind of layered rice-based dish), pulāʾo, kabābs, harīsas (savoury porridge), shishrangas and ḵẖāgīnas (omelette), and khichṛī; the final chapter involves murabbā (jams ...
Authentic tandoori cuisine in urban areas can often be found in specialty restaurants and dhabas, which are street-side reasonably fared restaurants that usually line Indian highways. [3] However, in rural areas in India such as Punjab, the tandoor oven is considered a social institution, for a tandoor oven is shared among the community.
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 .