KOLKATA STYLE CHICKEN ROLL

KOLKATA STYLE CHICKEN ROLL

 Chicken rolls recipe is a popular street food of Kolkata/ calcutta. It is orginated from kolkata, that’s why it is often called the ‘ calcutta egg rolls’. This is a tasty and filling wrap, that’s loaded with chicken. This a roll where juicy spicy chicken are wrapped in flattened bread/ roti that has been coated with egg. This recipe is most widely used in roll centres of Kolkata.

Ingredients:

For the Chicken filling:

• 400 grams Boneless Chicken (small cube sized)
• 1 Onion Big sized (thinly sliced)
• 1 Tomato (chopped)
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1 tsp Cumin powder
• ½ tsp Kashmiri mirch powder/red chili powder
• ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
• Salt
• 3 tbsp Vegetable oil

Marination for Chicken:

• 2 tbsp Yogurt
• ½ tsp Black pepper powder
• 1 tbsp Ginger-garlic paste

For garnishing:

• 1 Lemon
• 1 Cucumber (peel, slice the cucumber into thin rounds, cut the rounds into thin stripes)
• 1 Onion (thinly sliced)
• Tomato ketchup (as required)
• Green chilli sauce (as required)
• 1 tbsp Fresh coriander leaves (chopped)

For the paratha dough/roll dough:

• 1½ cups All-purpose flour/Maida
• 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
• ¼ tsp Salt
• Water for kneading the dough

Instructions:

Making of the Chicken filling:

1. Marinate the freshly washed chicken pieces with the all the ingredients mentioned under ‘Marination for Chicken’. Keep aside for minimum 1 hour or more.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan. Add sliced onions, sauté over medium heat until light brown in color. Add chopped tomatoes, green chillies and other ingredients except garam masala powder. Mix and cook for 2-3 minutes, now add the marinated chicken pieces. Mix well, cover and cook on low flame for 10 minutes. 
3. Keep stirring in between. Add ½ cup of water. Cover and cook until the chicken is done, stir in between. If the chicken is drying too much sprinkle some more water. Add garam masala powder at the end. Mix and remove from the heat, keep aside.

Making the dough and paratha:

1. In a bowl add all the ingredients (except water) mentioned under ‘For the paratha dough’. Mix well using your fingers. Now add water slowly, and knead a very smooth dough. Make 3 or 4 equal sized balls out of it.
2. On a lightly floured surface roll out each ball into a round paratha (the thickness should be a little bit more than the regular chapatis or rotis).
3. Heat a tawa, now cook the paratha one at a time. Flip and cook both sides without oil first (cook for a minute in total), now add 1 tbsp oil for each side, flip and cook until light brown spot appears. Avoid too much flipping, the parathas might get chewy. Remove from the heat, keep aside.

Making of the rolls:

1. Now on a hot paratha arrange some cooked chicken pieces in a row (make this line little apart from the centre). 
2. Drizzle some lemon juice all over the chicken pieces, garnish with some sliced onion, cucumber, and chopped coriander leaves. 
3. Add a few drops of tomato ketchup and chili sauce. Roll the paratha firmly, and wrap one half of the roll with tissue paper. Fold the bottom part of the tissue paper inside the roll.
4. Your street style Chicken Roll is ready to eat. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!