Technique
Tawa Cooking
Urdu/Hindi: Tawa par pakana
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Also known as: griddle cooking, tawa frying
Tawa cooking is the everyday Pakistani method for flatbreads — every chapati and paratha passes through a tawa before reaching the table. Restaurant tawa cooking is a separate, showier affair: large, slightly convex tavas over very high flames cook seekh kebab, tawa fish, and tawa chicken in sizzling oil with a theatrical scraping and flipping motion. The curved surface of a concave tawa naturally pools oil in the center for even cooking, while a convex tawa drains it to the edges for drier results.