Kati Roll

By
Prerna Singh
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We came back home from an awesome trip celebrating our li’l one’s first birthday and it was GREAT!! I was sooo glad to see all your best wishes coming every time I got an opportunity to check my blog. Thanks so much! The li’l one just adores animals. So we decided to take her a bit closer to them this time and see how she reacts when she sees animals (other than mommy n daddy) and she just had a blast. I made a simple cake for her which had to survive hours of drive then two days and nights in a hotel room to be able to cut on her birthday. She loved the cake, she loved the zoo, she loved doughnuts and we all had a perfect birthday trip. I think we will be doing such birthday trips until she’s grown up enough to be embarrassed about taking trips with us!

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Just like every great thing comes to an end so did this trip! We came back home a couple days back to a living room full of toys scattered around, a dishwasher full of dirty dishes which I forgot to switch on before leaving and a fridge full of…uuuuh..nothing! Except a bottle of milk gone bad, a couple tomatoes from last week’s tomato dal and a few tortillas. But I had to do something specially for my friends from the US who are looking for something great for the labor day. So I made Kati Roll.

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I’m sure a lot of you must have at least heard of it if not tasted one yet. For those who are not aware what a Kati Roll is, its an Indian form of a wrap. You can find these easily anywhere in India (especially North India) from local street vendors to high end restaurants.

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Normally Kati Rolls are made with marinated chicken or vegetables cooked on a skillet and then served with some green chutney wrapped in parathas. Some people add a layer of cooked eggs. It tastes divine and is a great Indian fast food. I tried making them a bit lighter though and also more accessible. So I baked the chicken and instead of wrapping them in parathas I used whole wheat tortillas. And trust me, taste was still the same but the experience guilt free!

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If you are a vegetarian you can substitute chicken with paneer or tofu and if you don’t have even that handy just use some vegetables and marinate them like I did with my chicken. Then smear green chutney over it, throw all the stuff in, wrap it and eat it. That’s what I love about wraps – you can use whatever you want. Cheese, avocado, lettuce or whatever strikes your fancy although I wanted to keep mine more Indian.

Ingredients:

For the chicken marination:
2 boneless skinless chicken breast
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste (if you don’t find the paste easily, you can also add powder)
1 tsp degi mirch (its kind of an Indian cayenne pepper, only not as hot and gives the marinade a nice red color. If you are not that crazy about the color just add cayenne pepper according to your taste)
1 tbsp coriander powder
1/4 cup yogurt (full fat or low fat whichever you prefer)
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp curry powder
1 tsp tandoori powder (optional)
Salt

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For the wrap:
5-6 whole wheat tortilla
1/4 cup sliced onion
1/4 cup sliced tomato
1/4 cup green chutney
a little chat masala (optional)
1 lime (optional)

Method:

First to marinate the chicken, mix all the ingredients together and pour them over the chicken. Give the chicken long little cuts for the marinade to penetrate and mix well. Let it marinate for at-least a half hour and at most 24 hours.
Pre heat the oven upto 400° F.
Place the marinated chicken on a baking sheet, spray a little bit of cooking spray and cook for 20-25 minutes or until clear juice runs out.
When the chicken is cooked well, take it out from the oven and cover with aluminum wrap for it to rest for about 5 mins. This makes the chicken juicier.
Slice chicken, onion and tomatoes.
Now for the wrap you can either use plain parathas or naan or whole wheat tortillas like I did. Heat them over a skillet.
Smear a thin layer of green chutney and place chicken, sliced onion, tomato & a squirt of lime juice and a pinch of chat masala if you want.
Make a tight wrap and cover with paper or aluminum wrap.
Enjoy it with soda or chilled beer! Have a happy labors day everyone!

Prerna Singh
http://www.indiansimmer.com

33 Comments

  5. “Remember that Bengali households still are known for their amazing food culture and this fact is known world-wide 🙂

    tanSEN was bengali my dear friend, so were a lot of other people! want to see the entire list as it stands today? so was subash chandra bose and sri aurobindo :)



    and i can name a million others and i am proud to say our greateness can be exerted beyond our national borders.
we are the fifth largest speakers!

    we bengalis have won pretty much every award in the world stage
you name it we have it and we are damn proud of what we have :)
its the only country in the world which took rebellion because it couldn’t speak its mother tongue and it won! and won so hard that the UN had to adopt that day as the international language day, which celebrates languages from all over the world.

    its the only country in the world which took rebellion because it couldn’t speak its mother tongue and it won! and won so hard that the UN had to adopt that day as the international language day, which celebrates languages from all over the world.

    did you know that the FAMOUS SEARS TOWER is architectured by another bengali?”

    by
    KAMONASISH AAYUSH MAZUMDAR
    MBA (IMT Ghaziabad)
    Bengaluru, Karnataka

  9. Wow that looks delish….i have a (stupid) question :)…when u say cook in the oven then do u bake it or set it under broil settings….

  19. Sounds like such a lovely trip! I like the idea of doing a trip for each birthday, so special.

    These wraps look amazing, especially the vibrant green of the chutney. Definitely bookmarking these.

  23. The marinade sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing. I had rolls in India all the time and still dream about the rolls at Badshah outside New Market in Calcutta. Those were the best. Although there was a joint on Park Street that had it happening too.

  24. Hi! I am new to your blog! I just recently started cooking Indian food. I know I am a terrible Indian child. But I am excited to learn and try new things. I will definitely be making this for sure.

    I hope it impresses my parents!

  28. These look SO good! I wanna throw a dinner party where I serve like ten different kinds of kati rolls. And I’m so glad you guys had a good trip. Good on you for making a cake and bringing it. Most store cakes me gag! 🙂

  29. great to hear that you enjoyed the first birthday trip with the little one. the kathi rolls look super scrumptious. love the way you presented it with fabulous pictures.

  31. that definitely looks and sounds awesome more than anything 🙂
    whenever i crave kati roll we go to this place called kati roll company here in london and gorge on the most yummiest of kati rolls:)
    glad to know u had an awesome holiday

  32. Wow that sounds like a perfect trip, Prerna! So glad your family had such a lovely celebration for your little girl’s birthday. Lovely recipe and clicks here. I especially like the 2nd to last photo, where the glistening chutney is making me drool.

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