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Tandyr nan is a type of Central Asian bread [1] [2] cooked in a vertical clay oven, the tandyr or tandoor. It is circular and leavened with yeast, and typically has a crisp golden surface. They are often decorated by stamping patterns on the dough, and can be topped with ingredients like sesame seeds, nigella seeds, or thinly sliced onion. [3]
The naan are prepared in an open clay oven, which is mounted in a hole in the ground. The fire is from a side hole. The baker (generally called as bhatiyara) sits next to the oven and places the naan in the oven for baking, these naan are picked out with specially designed rods.
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.
The thickness of the oven wall (ca. 6 inches) helps preserve residual heat. As a modern-day improvisation, some baking ovens are made from a half-cut metal barrel that encloses a thinly-made clay oven of the same height, and where the intermediate space between the metal barrel and clay oven is filled with sand. [58]
Some sourdough recipes will bake fine without placing the dough in a hot oven. "A hard crust loaf like sourdough can sometimes be baked slow in a cold oven," he says. The type of oven will also ...
Modern ceramic wood-fired tandoors. Clay tandoors in India.. A tandoor (/ t æ n ˈ d ʊər / or / t ɑː n ˈ d ʊər /) is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay.Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti and naan, as well as to roast meat.
Cooking food in a tandoor oven has been done for about five millennia. Remains of a clay oven with indication of cooked food have been excavated in the Indus River valley site of Kalibangan, [2] and other places in present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, northwest India, Iran, Iraq and Central Asia. [3]
Naan-e-Tunuk was a light or thin bread, while Naan-e-Tanuri was a heavy bread and was baked in the tandoor. [9] During India’s Mughal era in the 1520s, naan was a delicacy that only nobles and royal families enjoyed because of the lengthy process of making leavened bread and because the art of making naan was a revered skill known by few.