Tandoori Chicken Sandwich
Tandoor-charred yoghurt-marinated chicken folded into a soft naan painted with cool raita, with sliced red onion and cucumber; the British-Indian curry-house portable form of a 1920s Peshawar dish.
The Curry-House Sandwich & Wrap
Spice Bag Wrap
A spice bag is a loose pile of salt-chilli chicken and chips from the fryer; the wrap rolls that finished Dublin takeaway invention into a warm tortilla for the walk home.
Seekh Kebab Roll
Skewered spiced mince off a charcoal sigri, folded into a roomali roti so thin it flaps like a handkerchief: the Lucknawi and Delhi kebab roll, cousin to Kolkata's paratha-wrapped kati.
Samosa Sandwich
A whole deep-fried samosa pressed into sliced white bread with mango chutney: the British-Indian corner-shop appropriation of a Central Asian pastry into a 1950s loaf.
Pakora Roll
Hot gram-flour fritters in a soft Scottish morning roll with chutney, eaten one-handed against a tight steam clock. The Glasgow curry-house and takeaway answer to the chip butty.
Onion Bhaji Sandwich
The one curry-house starter that crossed the road into the chip shop. A craggy gram-flour fritter packed hot into a soft Lancashire barm, with the poppadom-tray chutney and raita along for the ride.
Naan Wrap
Various fillings wrapped in naan bread.
Mexican Chicken Wrap
Spiced chicken with salsa, guacamole, sour cream.
Chicken Tikka Wrap
The British curry house wound into a cylinder for the lunch hour: tikka rolled the way the Kolkata kati roll taught, the tandoor traded for a griddle.
Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Britain's tandoor classic served cold: spiced, charred chicken folded through a clinging dressing in soft white bread, the curry-house flavour fitted to a meal-deal lunch.
Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Dry char from the tandoor, a cool raita against the heat, mango chutney for sweetness: the curry-house favourite folded into a soft white bap.
Chicken Tikka and Raita
Chicken tikka with cucumber raita (yogurt sauce).
Chicken Tikka and Mango Chutney
Chicken tikka with mango chutney; popular combination.
Butter Chicken Wrap
Spoon butter chicken into a warm naan and roll it tight, and Britain's favourite mild curry becomes street food, inheriting the kati-roll trick of rolling the curry into the bread to eat it by hand.
Bombay Sandwich
Boiled potato, cucumber, tomato, onion and beetroot pressed in green-chutney-painted pao over a charcoal chimta; a Mumbai street sandwich of the 1960s textile-mill years.