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Description: ✓ Kolkati is an Indian street food company based in London. They passionately aim to capture the flavours of Kolkata with their "Hot Kati Rolls". Just like in India a flaky paratha flatbread is coated in egg on one side and cooked on the tawa. It is then filled with a delicious spiced filling of paneer or chicken, homemade Coconut & Coriander sauce + Tamarind Chutney and topped with cherry tomatoes, pickled onion, coriander, chilli and a squeeze of fresh lime. All then rolled to give you a true taste of India in your hand. Some Indian recipe books that you may perhaps like: * Chai, Chaat & Chutney: A Street Food Journey Through India: amzn.to/3f6bLRm * Recipe cookbook from Dishoom Indian restaurant: amzn.to/35ghXl8 * Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible: amzn.to/39VaIBl * Leon Happy Curries (Happy Leons): amzn.to/3k4OrWu * The Curry Guy: Recreate Over 100 of the Best British Indian Restaurant Recipes at Home: amzn.to/3ijsh1h * Indian Restaurant Curry at Home Volume 1: Misty Ricardo's Curry Kitchen: amzn.to/2PAWTit * The Hairy Bikers' Great Curries: amzn.to/31wU9Iv * British Indian Restaurant Food At Home: It's Easy When You Know How: amzn.to/3fw73v0 * Asma's Indian Kitchen: Home-cooked food brought to you by Darjeeling Express: amzn.to/31mibG1 * Recipe cookbook from Dishoom Indian restaurant: amzn.to/35ghXl8 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day: amzn.to/2VPIxyA 🛒 Our Amazon Storefront Shop: amazon.co.uk/shop/travelsinindialondontheuk 🛒 (Disclosure: Some of the links on this page are affiliate links to Amazon, meaning that if you decide to make a purchase, at no extra cost to you, I will earn a small commission). If you are planning to visit the stall: send them a message ahead of your visit to confirm when, where and what particular day they will be trading. Here's a link to Kolkati's Facebook & Twitter pages: @kolkati This video was recorded was recorded before the world pandemic at Alchemy Indian festival the annual 10 day Alchemy festival. Kolkati also has a permanant residency located in the West Yard of Camden Lock Market in the Street Food section near to the canal. A Kati roll (sometimes spelt kathi roll; (Bengali:কাঠি রোল[) is a popular street food dish originating from Kolkata, India. In its original form, it is a skewer grilled or roasted kebab which is wrapped in a paratha bread, over the years many variants have evolved all of which now go under the generic name of kati roll. Today, mostly any wrap containing a filling enfolded in an Indian flatbread (roti) is called a kati roll. In native Bengali, the word Kati roughly translates to “Stick”, referring to how they were originally made. In Bengal though, the delicacy is simply known as "Roll". The kati roll is said to have started its life in the Nizam Restaurant in Kolkata, a popular eatery founded in 1932. There are many stories about how exactly the roll got started. Some suggest that hurried office commuters wanted something quick and portable to eat, some mention British babus who were too fastidious to touch the kabab. The most likely origin is probably more mundane, but in any case someone decided to roll things up at some point. Nizam enjoyed a virtual monopoly over this method of serving kababs for decades, but it eventually became common in Kolkata and later became more wide spread. Kolkata Rolls: The kati part of the name came later. Like everyone else in India, Nizam's used iron skewers to make their kababs; they were easy to maintain and lasted a lifetime. However, as Nizam's popularity grew, these long heavy iron skewers became problematic; as far more was required than could be handled. In 1964, Nizam moved to bamboo skewers that were lightweight and available in large numbers. These skewers are referred to in Bengali as kati or stick, and the names kati kabab and kati roll soon stuck. The name eventually became synonymous with any kind of paratha rolled with stuffing (even when neither kati nor kabab was involved) such as the egg roll or the potato roll, and later even for other breads such as naan or roomali roti. Traditionally, a kati roll is a kati kebab wrapped in a layered paratha bread. Paratha is dough that is kneaded into a rope, then coiled into a round patty. It is then flattened with a rolling pin and partially fried in oil on a tawa or griddle. These part cooked parathas are then kept aside until needed, at which time they're put back on the tawa and cooked through. If an egg is to be added, it is usually cracked into the tawa and the paratha put on top of the egg; they both cook together and the paratha gets coated on one side with the egg. (04 & 06/05/2018).