Clay Oven
At Clay Oven in Hauppauge, Lubna Habibi is pushing the limits of authentic South Asian food that go beyond what we’ve come to define as such fare with dishes like tandoori chicken wings, pakoras that play on cheese sticks and a lamb meatball curry that falls in the scotch egg family. With most dishes on the menu $10 or less, it's easy to venture outside your comfort zone and leave with a little extra for tomorrow.
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Tandoori chicken wings are blistered to a beautiful char on the outside, resulting in a spicy red-tinged crust that gives way to meat that falls off the bone at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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Clay Oven in Happauge offers a halal menu that's focused on authentic Indian food. The dining room here is more spacious that the original in Smithtown.
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Lunchtime is busiest at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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Lubna Habibi, owner of Clay Oven in Hauppauge, has spent more than 30 years refining Indian food.
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To deal with the lunchtime crush, Clay Oven in Hauppauge features an afternoon-only buffet that is heavy on classics including chicken tikka and lamb kebabs.
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Paneer pakoras are a play on mozzarella cheese sticks. Chunks of traditional Indian farmers cheese are rolled in green chutney, breaded in chickpea batter, fried and dusted with a cayanne-laced spice that is made in house at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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The aloo boonda pairs crispy mashed potato cutlets over a bowl of soothing yogurt and chickpeas at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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Tender eggplant is roasted and stuffed with moist crumbles of ground lamb and topped with peppers, onions and yogurt sauce at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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Anda kofta are meatballs made of tender lamb, some with a hardboiled egg in the middle, that are cooked in an tomato based curry at Clay Oven in Hauppauge.
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