tawa
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A flat round metal pan used to cook flatbreads like chapati
- noun
- /ˈtɑːwə/
- Indian
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tawa
- On cool evenings, we enjoy frying vegetables on the hot tawa.
Examples
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The chef used the tawa to cook fluffy chapatis for dinner.
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The day Papa brought home the sack of flour, Mud-die made individual sada rotis on her tawa and crushed some garlic and fresh Spanish thyme into a little margarine.
Fiction book (1994) -
Every Sunday, family members gather to make naan on a traditional tawa.
How Flat
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tawa comes from an Indian word tava meaning 'flat pan', so the English word simply names the flat metal pan used to cook breads like chapati.