Cheese Chutney Sandwich
Simple sandwich of cheese and green chutney—quick snack.
Simple sandwich of cheese and green chutney—quick snack.
Toast with cheese and green chilies.
Bread roll with cheese filling.
Whole wheat unleavened flatbread; daily bread of most of India.
A Goan sandwich that answers to its paste: a fierce green coriander-chilli-garlic masala, carried from Mozambique to Goa by the Portuguese, fried onto chicken and packed into a hollow poee roll.
The cheapest line on an Irani-café menu and one of Mumbai's most loved: a soft bun split and spread with a real, visible layer of butter. Nothing to hide behind, so each part has to be right.
Bun maska served as accompaniment to Irani chai—traditional pairing.
The Indian bread roll wraps a flattened slice tight around spiced potato and fries it into a sealed log, no batter, the bread itself becoming the crust: a teatime snack eaten with chutney.
Bread pakora is a spiced-potato sandwich dipped whole in besan batter and deep-fried: a shatter-crisp gram-flour jacket over soft bread and a hot, chili-loud potato core, eaten with chai.
Bread pakora served with green and tamarind chutneys.
Paratha with boti kebab (marinated meat chunks) filling.
Standard Bombay sandwich with full vegetable layers and green chutney.
Thin-cut boiled potato, beetroot, cucumber, tomato and onion in a flat band on green-chutney bread, dusted with bottled sandwich masala and crisped in a hinged Mumbai toaster.
Mumbai's famous grilled sandwich; white bread layered with boiled potato slices, cucumber, tomato, onion, beetroot, green chutney (cilant...
Bombay sandwich with processed cheese slice added.
Buttery grilled version with crispy exterior.
Bhurji pav is the egg sandwich of the Mumbai pavement: scrambled eggs cooked deliberately dry so the soft pav stays intact, with the griddle scrambling the egg and toasting the roll at once.
Large, puffy deep-fried bread from fermented dough; served with chole.
Thick, unleavened flatbread made from jowar (sorghum) or bajra (millet). Served with vegetable.
Bhajji pav is Mumbai's monsoon sandwich: a crisp besan-battered onion fritter stuffed hot into a soft pav, with red garlic chutney and a fried green chili, eaten beside scalding chai in the rain.
Beef keema pav is the Muslim Mumbai version of keema and pav: dark dry spiced mince scooped with soft buttered pav, made with water-buffalo carabeef in the lanes of Bhendi Bazaar and Bohri Mohalla.