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Tandoori Wrap
Our Tandoori Wraps are served with a potato salad and fried cabbage
Create your very own Tandoori Wraps!
Naan, Garlic Naan, Roti or Paratha
Add:
Onion Bhaji, Vegetable Pakora, Chicken Pakora,
Paneer Pakora, Amritsari Fish, Meat OR Vegetable Samosa,
Chicken Tikka OR Sheekh Kebab.
It’s hot, it’s scrumptious, and it’s the ultimate street food for commuters on
the run. It’s India’s answer to the Mexican burrito and is within reach of every
pocket. A paratha stuffed with veggies or spicy potato, minced lamb or
tandoori chicken chunks and spiced up with a mysterious sauce, the Kati roll is
now catching on fast in all the Indian metros, will soon be coming to New York
and has already landed in Antigua!
The Kati roll is a street food that originated in Kolkata before becoming the
rage and transmuting into the culinary wonder that it has become today. It
was introduced by Nizam’s, a Kolkata restaurant known for its Mughlai cuisine.
Elsewhere, like in Mumbai, it is also known as a “Frankie” – but we’ll come to
that story later. To come back to the Kati roll, an apocryphal story has it that
during a lunchtime rush at Nizam’s, the restaurant ran out of plates and an
enterprising management decided to serve the traditional paratha rolled and
stuffed with lamb or chicken kebab to overcome the lack of plates. Thus, the
Kati roll was born (Source: Wikipedia).
New Delhi’s popular chain ’The Kathi’s’ (Saket, Khan Market, DLF, Vasant Kunj)
and Nazeem’s in Connaught Circus, are proof that the Kati roll’s popularity is
on the rise. The Indian Bread Company and the Kati Roll Restaurant are bringing
this popular snack to New York as well.
A Kati roll begins life as a paratha or flat bread, heated on a flat
griddle. Beaten egg is poured on to form a layer. Fillings that can range from
potato, cottage cheese (paneer), cheese, mutton kebab, chunks of tandoori
chicken, along with vegetables fried in butter, are added, and the whole thing
is rolled up with sauce or spices to form a satisfying albeit calorie-filled
snack. In fact, the only complaint about the Kati roll is that it might be a tad
too oily for modern tastes. A problem that has been solved by the “Frankie”.
The “Frankie” is Mumbai’s version of the Kati roll and is basically a
chappati rolled with mutton, chicken, and vegetarian fillings. The masala
(spice mix) sprinkled on the “Frankie” is the secret ingredient. Tibb’s Frankies
of Mumbai are now well known all over India with more than sixty franchises in
Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Pune.