Cooking Without The Tandoor Tandoori

The use of a tandoor is very important in the traditional cuisine of northern India, and many breads and dishes have been specially designed for these clay ovens. This includes many famous Punjabi and North Indian Food: paratha, naan, Kulcha, Roti, and the bread of others, and tandoori lamb chops, chicken tikka, tandoori chicken, seekh kebab, tandoori shrimp, Reshmi kabab, and a variety of other dishes. Only a few of us these days, however, fortunate to have our own tandoor. In this article we will explore some alternatives that can be used instead.

Tandoori food has a distinctive smoky flavor that occurs due to the design of the clay oven. Heat in a tandoor is generated by burning coal in the bottom of the oven (which is shaped like a belly stove.) How to cook the food in the interior, justice down on the hot coals, producing delicious smoke flavor that is the signature of the tandoor.

It is obviously difficult to find an exact equivalent to a Tandoor, but we have some options. Barbecues can be very good, especially where the cooking is done on a grid that allows juices run food or coal burners. The effect is not quite finished Tandoor, but the resulting flavor is a reasonable approximation.

You can choose a conventional oven to cook tandoori; dishes. The similarity is that cooking in the Tandoor and has a closed room where the heat is trapped, but the former produces no smoke flavor marks real tandoori food. This method is best alternative for cooking tandoori bread (naan, roti, Kulcha, etc.) when a Tandoor is not available because the bread is surrounded by heat.

A network can be used when cooking foods such as lamb chops or chicken tikka, although the concept of the cooking grate is actually the opposite of tandoori cooking. The grid is not an enclosed space and the food is heated by elements of the above. However, even good food can be achieved. The network is good for fast food (ie, when the grid is not an option).

In general, the best alternative for a tandoor is a charcoal grill as fuel when you want to do something in the style of northern Indian cuisine. Even if tandoors are much easier to buy in the West lately, if the tandoori-style food with its regular menu, can be useful for investment.