Keema Ghotala Pav
Keema scrambled with eggs (ghotala style), served with pav.
Keema scrambled with eggs (ghotala style), served with pav.
On a Kolkata pavement at rush hour it makes sense the way nothing at a table does: a flaky paratha rolled tight around skewer kebab, onion, chutney and lemon, built for one hand and a moving crowd.
Onion bhaji (sliced onions in gram flour batter, fried crispy) in pav.
Deep-fried spiced lentil-stuffed bread (kachori) with potato or pea curry.
Vada pav without onion and garlic (for Jain dietary restrictions); adjusted chutneys.
Without onion, garlic, and root vegetables (potato replaced with raw banana).
Hyderabad's grilled vegetable sandwich re-seasons the Mumbai chutney-and-potato build to a Deccani palate: chili worked into the potato mash, the green chutney pounded hotter, the heat made to climb.
Green chutney inside, butter outside, a hand iron over gas: the Indian cart sandwich that grew out of a cold Bombay mill-worker lunch in the 1960s.
A Punjabi stuffed flatbread built around raw cauliflower grated fine and sealed inside unleavened whole-wheat dough, then griddled on a tava with ghee until the surface blisters brown.
Cauliflower manchurian in sandwich.
A Punjabi tandoor bread of leavened maida, soured with yogurt and baked against the clay wall until it blisters, packed with dry-spiced cauliflower and brushed with butter.
Goan Portuguese-influenced crusty bread roll (poee/pao); used for various sandwiches.
Sliced Goan chorizo with onions in bread.
Dosa roasted in generous ghee until extra crispy, often with spicier potato filling.
Mumbai's defining wrap: a griddled flatbread, a beaten egg set onto one face, a dry spiced filling, sharp vinegared onion and a guarded house masala, rolled tight and eaten on the move.
Bengali fish fry (breaded, fried fish with mustard) in bread.
Breaded fish patty in bread.
Middle Eastern falafel in wrap; gaining popularity.
Puff pastry with hard-boiled egg inside.