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
A minced-lamb seekh kebab comes off the skewer too hot to hold, and a warmed naan with a stripe of mint chutney is what makes it eatable in one hand on the walk home.
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
A spiced gram-flour onion fritter, deep-fried brittle, raced into a soft bap with cool raita or mango chutney before its own steam softens the lattice: a curry-house starter rebuilt in bread.
Naan Wrap
Various fillings wrapped in naan bread.
Mexican Chicken Wrap
Spiced chicken with salsa, guacamole, sour cream.
Chicken Tikka Wrap
Chicken tikka in naan or wrap.
Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Tandoori-spiced chicken tikka pieces on bread; British-Indian fusion.
Chicken Tikka Sandwich
Char-cooked, yogurt-marinated chicken tikka laid dry into soft bread with a cooling raita and a smear of mango chutney. The British-Indian curry house carried into a lunchtime sandwich.
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.