🍛 Spiced oven dish 🍗 Cooked in clay oven

tandoori

2 3.6

Cooked in a clay oven with spices for a smoky taste

adjective
/tænˈdʊəri/

: tandoori

We enjoyed a tandoori chicken that was perfectly spiced and cooked to perfection.

Oh good, Donald Trump can finally go the full tandoori then all his meat.

Examples

She prepared a tandoori vegetable platter, showcasing an array of colorful, marinated vegetables.
The restaurant specializes in tandoori dishes, serving naan bread alongside freshly grilled meats.
Oh good, Donald Trump can finally go the full tandoori then all his meat.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Synonyms

baked

vstandoori

115 1.0

Cooked in an oven, like bread or pastries

is cooked in a clay oven with spices within Indian cuisine

Surface Forms

tandoori positive

Morphology

tandoori = tandoor (transparent) = tandoor + i

Formed from 'tandoor' + suffix '-i' meaning 'related to or cooked in a tandoor'; if a learner knows 'tandoor' the adjective is directly inferable.

Etymology

Tandoori comes from the Indian clay oven called tandoor, a word that goes back to Persian tanūr meaning 'oven'. So tandoori describes food cooked in that hot clay oven, which is why it often has a smoky, spicy taste.