Tandoori Chicken Roll
Tandoori chicken (yogurt-marinated, clay oven roasted) in paratha or naan.
Tandoori chicken (yogurt-marinated, clay oven roasted) in paratha or naan.
Indo-Chinese spring rolls; vegetable or chicken filling in crispy wrapper.
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.
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.
Paper-thin roomali roti ('handkerchief' bread) used as wrap for kebabs—common for kathi rolls.
Reshmi kebab (silky smooth minced chicken kebab) in roll.
Paratha wrapped around paneer tikka (yogurt-marinated, grilled paneer).
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.
Paratha with spiced grilled mutton (goat) pieces.
Creamy malai tikka (cream-marinated chicken) wrapped in paratha.
The fish version of Kolkata's roll carries the city's colonial fish-fry inside it: crumb-fried bhetki, boneless and golden, rolled hot in a paratha with onion, chilli and lime.
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 street roll.
Classic Kolkata chicken roll; paratha with spiced chicken, onion, chutney.
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.
Paratha cooked with egg spread on top (anda paratha), rolled with onion, chutney.
Two eggs cooked onto paratha, rolled with onion and chutney.