Jain Vada Pav
Mumbai's fried-fritter sandwich rebuilt on boiled raw banana, with asafoetida, dry ginger and lemon doing the work that potato, onion and garlic do elsewhere.
Mumbai's fried-fritter sandwich rebuilt on boiled raw banana, with asafoetida, dry ginger and lemon doing the work that potato, onion and garlic do elsewhere.
Without onion, garlic, and root vegetables (potato replaced with raw banana).
Hyderabad's grilled vegetable sandwich re-seasons the Mumbai chutney-and-potato build to a Deccani palate: chili worked into the potato mash, the green chutney pounded hotter, the heat made to climb.
Green chutney inside, butter outside, a hand iron over gas: the Indian cart sandwich that grew out of a cold Bombay mill-worker lunch in the 1960s.
A Punjabi stuffed flatbread built around raw cauliflower grated fine and sealed inside unleavened whole-wheat dough, then griddled on a tava with ghee until the surface blisters brown.
Cauliflower manchurian in sandwich.
A Punjabi tandoor bread of leavened maida, soured with yogurt and baked against the clay wall until it blisters, packed with dry-spiced cauliflower and brushed with butter.
Goan Portuguese-influenced crusty bread roll (poee/pao); used for various sandwiches.
Sliced Goan chorizo with onions in bread.
Dosa roasted in generous ghee until extra crispy, often with spicier potato filling.
Mumbai's defining wrap: a griddled flatbread, a beaten egg set onto one face, a dry spiced filling, sharp vinegared onion and a guarded house masala, rolled tight and eaten on the move.
Bengali fish fry (breaded, fried fish with mustard) in bread.
Breaded fish patty in bread.
Indian mall counters fry chickpea falafel to order and roll it with tahini and green chutney. Falafel's of Mumbai opened its fifth outlet in December 2015 with falafel as its only fried item.
Puff pastry with hard-boiled egg inside.
Beaten egg poured into a split, half-cooked paratha on a live tawa and welded into its leaves: the North Indian late-night dhaba egg paratha, a flatbread with an omelette cooked into its core.
Paratha cooked with egg spread on top (anda paratha), rolled with onion, chutney.