Paneer Paratha
A whole-wheat pocket sealed around spiced crumbled paneer and griddled on a tawa. The stuffed wheat bread the Manasollasa set down around 1130 CE, filled with cheese instead of jaggery.
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Paneer Naan
Spiced paneer carried inside a leavened naan, slapped onto a tandoor wall and pulled blistered. The bread the poet Amir Khusrau set down at the Delhi court around 1300 CE.
Paneer Kathi Roll
Kolkata's commuter roll gone meatless: yogurt-marinated paneer charred soft, laid in a flaky egg-coated paratha with raw onion, green chutney, and lime.
Paneer Frankie
Mumbai's frankie gone vegetarian: dry-browned paneer in a soft egg-washed maida wrapper, with vinegar-soaked onion and the guarded frankie masala, rolled in paper.
Paneer Chilli Sandwich
Indo-Chinese chilli paneer, the wok reduced dry until the cubes glaze, pressed hot into buttered white bread with capsicum and onion still crunching.
Paneer Bread Roll
Crustless white bread flattened into a wrapper, sealed at a wet seam around dry spiced paneer and deep-fried to a gold log that shatters onto a soft cheese centre. A north Indian tea-stall snack.
Paneer Bhurji Sandwich
Paneer bhurji cooked dry enough to hold a press: crumbled cheese scrambled with onion, tomato, turmeric, and chilli, sealed into a buttered griddled sandwich.
Paneer Bhurji Pav
Crumbled paneer scrambled with onion, tomato, spices—vegetarian alternative to egg bhurji.
Palak Paratha
A whole-wheat paratha green to its core, spinach blanched and pulped into the dough, laminated on the tawa, folded by hand around pickle, curd, or a dry sabzi.
Noodle Sandwich
Indo-Chinese Hakka noodles, tossed dry and red with schezwan, packed between buttered bread and griddled. A street toastie built on a wok, not a chutney.
Noodle Frankie
Indo-Chinese fusion; hakka noodles wrapped in chapati.
Naan
Leavened tandoor-baked flatbread; refined flour, yogurt, yeast, baked in clay oven until puffy with charred spots. Base for many sandwich...
Mysore Masala Dosa
Dosa spread with red chutney (chili-based), then filled with potato masala—spicier than regular masala dosa.
Mutton Puff
Puff pastry with spiced mutton filling.
Mutton Kathi Roll
Paratha with spiced grilled mutton (goat) pieces.