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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]
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 .
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]
The oven needs to be set at the proper temperature when you put in a batch of cookies or a loaf of bread. ... placing the dough in a hot oven. "A hard crust loaf like sourdough can sometimes be ...
Other clay ovens that had, both, a top opening and bottom side-opening ("eye of the oven"), the function of the side-opening was to insert fuel and to remove excess ashes. [56] All newly built clay-ovens require a first firing before they can be used to bake bread. [57] Firing was done by burning dried manure inside the oven.
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. These Naan are quite fluffy.
Naan (bread) from a local baker, the most widely consumed bread in Afghanistan. Afghan bread is flat and cooked in a tanoor or tandoor (a vertical ground clay oven). The bread is slapped onto a stone wall to cook. Tabakhai is a flatbread cooked on a flat upside-down pan.
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.