Spring Roll
Indo-Chinese spring rolls; vegetable or chicken filling in crispy wrapper.
Indo-Chinese spring rolls; vegetable or chicken filling in crispy wrapper.
Creamed spinach and corn filling in grilled sandwich.
Soya chunks/granules as vegetarian kebab substitute in roll.
A Delhi cart roll of marinated, charred soya chaap, green chutney, raw onion and chaat masala, wrapped in paratha or roomali and twisted in paper.
Middle Eastern shawarma adapted with Indian spices; very popular in cities.
Paratha rolled around shami kebab (spiced minced meat patties with lentils).
Minced meat off the coals at Bademiya's Colaba stall, folded into warm flatbread with onion and green chutney and eaten standing in the lane behind the Taj.
Lamb seekh pulled off the skewer onto a naan blistered in the same clay oven, folded with mint chutney, raw onion, and lime while the bread still steams.
Vada pav with spicy Indo-Chinese schezwan sauce (red chili, Sichuan pepper, garlic, soy) added.
Grilled sandwich with spicy schezwan sauce, vegetables, sometimes noodles.
Frankie with Indo-Chinese schezwan sauce and vegetables.
A Bihari stuffed paratha built around sattu, roasted gram flour slicked with raw mustard oil, ajwain and pickle masala, sealed in wheat dough and griddled on a tawa.
The whole dish is one gesture: a hot samosa set into a split pav and pressed until the shell cracks. A deliberate clash of two breads, flaky fried shell inside a pillowy yeast roll.
A fritter built to fasting law: cassava-derived sago, potato and peanut with rock salt and no grain, onion or garlic, set in a pav. Not a vada pav variant but a separate snack under different rules.
'Handkerchief' thin bread; large, paper-thin, used for wraps.
Goa's ros omelette is a folded omelette drowned in ros, the spiced coconut gravy that elsewhere soaks beef and sausage in pão. The bread is a dipping tool, and the gravy is the whole dish.
Paper-thin roomali roti ('handkerchief' bread) used as wrap for kebabs—common for kathi rolls.
Reshmi kebab (silky smooth minced chicken kebab) in roll.
Ragda (dried peas curry) over pattice (potato cutlets), sometimes served with pav.
A Bengali stuffed fried bread named for the beloved of Radha. A maida round seals a spiced urad-dal paste scented with fennel and asafoetida, fried to a puff and eaten with cholar dal or aloor dom.
The pyaaz paratha folds raw onion, the hardest filling a North Indian cook can use, into wheat and griddles its bite down sweet: the cheap morning bread of the Punjab kitchen and the dhaba.
Large kachori stuffed with spiced onion filling, served with tamarind and coriander chutney.
Steamed rice flour and coconut cylinders; served with kadala curry (black chickpea) or banana.