Jain Vada Pav
Vada pav without onion and garlic (for Jain dietary restrictions); adjusted chutneys.
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.
Generic grilled sandwich with various fillings; Indian cafés often add chutney and chaat masala.
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.
Beaten egg poured into a split, half-cooked paratha on a live tawa and welded into its leaves: the North Indian late-night dhaba egg paratha, a flatbread with an omelette cooked into its core.
Paratha cooked with egg spread on top (anda paratha), rolled with onion, chutney.