Uzbek “Tandoori” Chicken

You’re probably familiar with India’s most famous barbecue dish: tandoori chicken. Similar versions turn up wherever grill masters fire up an urn-shaped clay tandoor, or one of its cousins, the tanoor or tandyr, for example, in Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and many other hard-to-pronounce former Soviet Republics and their neighbors. The Uzbek version features a different and simpler seasoning—chicken rubbed with garlic, cumin, coriander, and other spices,