Naan, the main Kurdish bread, is eaten with every meal, almost any kind of food. My dad especially likes eating naan with watermelon. There are naan tandoors in almost every neighborhood, people go and get fresh bread every day, and 8 large pieces of naan costs about 75 cents. The tandoor is made up of a special kind of stone, and is on the whole day. These men that work in the naan shops work non stop all day long.
Its hard work, and many of the workers have their hair burned off their arms from the being so close to the heat of the tandoor. Usually 4 or 5 men work in those shops. One mixes the dough, one kneads the dough, one forms it into balls, one shapes it and stretches it, and the other takes it out of the tandoor. Some of these jobs can be combined, in order to save some money for the shop.
One of the things I want most is a tandoor--not only can you make the best naan's pizza's and desserts in them, but Pakistani dishes taste so much better in them. There is another type of cooking method thats Afghani that my mom says its amazing, basically alot of times they will make a hole in the ground and then put some type of pot inside the hold, and let meats and other dishes cook that way--my mom said it's out of this world!!
ReplyDeleteMmm food made in a hole in the ground sounds delicious lol
ReplyDeleteUnfortunantly the only thing they make in a tandoor here is the naan. Ive had tandoori chicken though and I love it!