tandooriadj.n.
/tanˈdʊəri/, /tanˈdɔːri/, U.S. /tænˈdʊ(ə)ri/ Of, pertaining to, or designating food cooked in a tandoor (tandoor n. 2), or this style of cooking. Also absol. as n.
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scalloped1737
jugged1747
smothered1748
à la casserole1870
panned1870
griddled1883
en cocotte1907
slow-cooking1914
tandoori1958
tandoor-cooked1977
1958 R. Howe Cooking from Commonwealth 484 Since partition the most popular form of restaurant cooking in India's capital, Delhi, has been tanduri cooking.
1958 R. Howe Cooking from Commonwealth 540 Tanduri chicken is always eaten with the fingers.
1961 Mrs. B. Singh Indian Cookery i. 18 A tandoor is used for the preparation of tandoori chicken, tandoori fish, seekh kabab, tandoori roti, nan, sheermal etc.
1966 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 11/3 The fabulous tandoori cooking from the north-west of India: charcoal-heated clay-oven cooking which ensures food of distinction.
1969 Guardian 2 Oct. 17 The restaurant specialises in exclusive Indian cuisine: Tandoories—meat and chicken grilled in clay ovens over a charcoal fire.
1969 Enact (Delhi) Nov. 18/2 Bring out the tanduri fish.
1970 D. Singh Indian Cookery 30 Tandoori is food cooked on the spit in a clay oven.
1970 D. Singh Indian Cookery 32 The various kebabs and kaftas used in tandoori, grills and roasts.
1975 Indian Express 1 Aug. 4/4 Multipurpose gadget for tandoori cooking.
1977 D. James Spy at Evening viii. 53 Dinner..at..my favourite Tandoori house on Sidney Street.
1979 Daily Tel. 11 June 8/8 More rice is being eaten in Britain. Not in the old-fashioned rice pudding, but with curry, chop-suey and tandoori dishes.
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adj.n.1958