Tandoor bread
 Tandoor flatbread in Azerbaijan | |
| Place of origin | Mesopotamia, Indus Valley |
|---|---|
| Main ingredients | Flour |
Tandoor bread refers to a bread baked in a clay oven called a tandoor.[1]
History[]
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, and Central Asia.[3]
The English word tandoor comes from Hindi / Urdu tandūr (तन्दूर / تندور), which derives from Persian, Hebrew and Arabic tannur (تنور). According to the Dehkhoda Persian Dictionary, the Persian/Arabic word ultimately came from the Akkadian word tinūru (