The Tandoori Chicken Roll is the cart-and-counter standard: yogurt-marinated, clay-oven-roasted chicken rolled in a paratha or naan. It is a national format in India, found wherever there is a tandoor working, and its angle is the marriage of two tandoor products in one hand. The same oven that blisters the bread chars the chicken, and the roll exists to keep that smoky, slightly bitter char wrapped and portable instead of plated as a kebab platter.
The make is a sequence where the tandoor does most of the heavy lifting. Chicken is marinated in yogurt with ginger, garlic, chilli, and the warm spice mix that gives tandoori its color and tang, then threaded on skewers and roasted in the clay oven until the outside takes deep char and the inside stays moist. The cooked chicken is pulled off the bone or sliced, often given a final toss on the griddle with onion to refresh the heat and edges. A paratha, flaky and sturdy, or a naan is cooked alongside and kept warm. The bread is laid out, painted with green chutney, sometimes a stripe of onion-and-lime salad, the hot chicken arranged in a line, and the whole thing rolled tight and twisted in paper at the base. Good execution is chicken with genuine tandoor char and a juicy interior, a paratha that is flaky and structural enough to hold without going greasy or splitting, and chutney sharp enough to cut the richness. Sloppy execution is oven-pale or dried-out chicken, a limp or oil-soaked bread, a roll under-seasoned and dull, or one packed so loosely it unspools after the first bite.
Variation tracks the bread and the sauce. A paratha base gives a flakier, more substantial roll; naan gives a softer, doughier one. Marinades range from the classic red tandoori to milder malai and sharper achaari profiles, and some carts add an egg layer or a tamarind sweetness, which pushes it toward kathi-roll and chaat territory. This is distinct from the naan-only tandoori chicken wrap and the bread-slice tandoori chicken sandwich, and each of those deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here.