Tandoor cooking is the basic trick behind the amazing taste of world famous chicken tandoori. This dish cannot be cooked in any other way and taste the same. If you are cooking this dish at your home and want the authentic chicken tandoori taste too then use authentic Indian spices and cook it in Tandoor.
Tandoors, actually are Indian ovens meant for outdoor cooking which traditionally are made of clay but today when we mostly don’t do or can’t do outdoor cooking these ovens are little impractical. But the good news for the lovers of tandoori food is that today you have got many more options in modern and advance tandoor ovens and one of the best options is the gas oven tandoor.
Gas oven tandoor – Gas oven tandoors are round shaped ovens that are best used for cooking tandoori dishes. These are not only useful in making tandoori foods but you can also do baking in these ovens. As the name suggests these are used on gas stoves just like any other cooking vessel.
It is an Indian version of clay ovens which is also used in many other parts of the world with different names and in different shapes. The Tandoor oven is actually a 3 feet pot made of clay. The outer layer of this pot is made of insulated material, mostly cement. To use this oven first coal is burnt and placed beneath the pot. Then the marinated food is put on skewers and placed inside the Tandoor.