Kothu Parotta
Shredded parotta stir-fried with egg, vegetables, and spices—like fried rice but with bread. Street food.
Shredded parotta stir-fried with egg, vegetables, and spices—like fried rice but with bread. Street food.
Green pea-stuffed kachori, winter specialty, served with sabzi.
Kolkata's version of egg roll; paratha with beaten egg cooked on, rolled with onion, green chili, chaat masala, lime juice.
Classic Kolkata chicken roll; paratha with spiced chicken, onion, chutney.
Watch how it's eaten and you understand it: a torn corner of buttered pav dragged through dark spiced lamb mince. Mumbai's plainest Irani-café plate, and the joining is yours to do.
Keema scrambled with eggs (ghotala style), served with pav.
On a Kolkata pavement at rush hour it makes sense the way nothing at a table does: a flaky paratha rolled tight around skewer kebab, onion, chutney and lemon, built for one hand and a moving crowd.
Onion bhaji (sliced onions in gram flour batter, fried crispy) in pav.
Deep-fried spiced lentil-stuffed bread (kachori) with potato or pea curry.
Kolkata specialty; cutlet wrapped in lacy egg net (like a web), fried. Unique presentation.
Vada pav without onion and garlic (for Jain dietary restrictions); adjusted chutneys.
Without onion, garlic, and root vegetables (potato replaced with raw banana).
Steamed fermented rice-lentil cake; soft, fluffy. Served with sambar and chutney.
Combination plate of idli and vada (fried lentil donut).
Spiced sandwich with green chutney, potato, vegetables, grilled.
Generic grilled sandwich with various fillings; Indian cafés often add chutney and chaat masala.