Tandoori Prawns

Ilanded in New Delhi after an eighteen-hour flight from New York. My reason for coming was simple: I wanted to sample tandoori (Indian barbecue) in its land of birth. Fortunately, I didn’t have to travel much farther: India’s most famous barbecue restaurant, Bukhara, was located in my hotel. One look at the exhibition kitchen, with its blazing tandoors and hammered copper walls hung with barbecue skewers, and I knew that I’d struck pay dirt.

A tandoor is a cross between a barbecue p