The Chicken Egg Roll is a Kolkata street format that combines an egg-coated paratha with a chicken filling. It is the egg variant of the city's roll family: a flaky flatbread is cooked, then bonded to a thin layer of egg so the wrapper carries an extra savory, slightly chewy skin before anything goes inside. That egg layer is the defining move, the thing that separates it from a plain chicken roll and gives the wrapper structure and richness to push against the spiced filling.
The build is layered and done largely on the griddle. A paratha, typically a flaky maida flatbread, is shallow-fried on a hot tawa until it blisters and crisps in patches. An egg is beaten, poured onto the griddle, and the paratha is pressed down onto it so the egg cooks attached to one face, forming a thin set sheet bonded to the bread. The egg-side faces up when the bread is laid out. A spiced chicken filling, cooked separately with onion, ginger, garlic, and a dry masala, is laid in a strip down the center, then topped with thinly sliced raw onion, slit green chili, a squeeze of lime, and a line of chili or tomato sauce. The flatbread is rolled tight into a cylinder, often half-wrapped in paper for grip. Good execution keeps the paratha crisp and the egg layer thin and fully set, with a filling dry enough to roll cleanly. Sloppy versions leave the egg runny so it leaks and tears the wrap, use a slack undercooked paratha that goes soggy in the hand, or overstuff the roll so it splits and the filling pushes out the bottom.
The format flexes by egg treatment and heat level. Some stalls use a double egg for a thicker skin and more richness; others keep the egg sheer so the paratha stays the dominant texture. The chicken ranges from a simple onion-masala sauté to a hotter, drier pepper preparation, and the sauce can swing from a sharp green chutney to a sweet-hot tomato-chili squeeze depending on the stall. Some versions add cheese or extra onion; others stay lean. The plain chicken roll without the egg, and the closely related kathi roll it sits beside, are distinct members of the same family that each deserve their own article rather than being crowded in here. What holds the egg roll together is the source's combination: an egg-bonded paratha wrapped around spiced chicken.