Kathi Roll

Kolkata Egg Roll: an illustration of egg, onion, pepper and lime on naan.

Kolkata Egg Roll

The egg never goes in the roll as a topping, it becomes the wrapper. Cracked onto the griddle and bonded into the paratha, one egg is the whole filling of Kolkata's cheapest, most ordered street roll.

A Kolkata kathi roll: spiced chicken with sliced red onion and chopped coriander chutney in a charred, flaky paratha, half-unwrapped from white paper.

Kathi Roll

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.