Frankie or kati roll is a popular delicious street food in India. The Frankie could be prepared either vegetarian or non- vegetarian by just adding grilled meat either chicken or fish. This recipe is prepared using grilled/tandoori salmon fish with roasted bell peppers, onions, green lettuce and flavored with yogurt mint chutney. The outer layer used is carrot round paratha/chapati. This is really a great travel food which you can prepare and carry with you on your travel. Kids love this dish on the go and it’s very easy to serve when rolled in aluminium foil. You can always experiment with your own veggies.
Ingredients
For Chapatis
- 1-1/2 cup Wheat flour
- 1 medium Carrot fine grated
- 1 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1/4 tsp Carom seeds (ajwain)
- Some oil for making chapatis
For Frankie roll
- 2 big pices Tandoori Salmon fish see tandoori salmon recipe below
- 1 Red bell pepper thinly sliced
- 1 Green bell Pepper thinly sliced
- 1/8 tsp Black pepper powder
- Pinch of Salt
- 1/8 tsp Kasmiri red chili powder
- 1 medium Onion thinly sliced
- 1 cup lettuce leave chopped
- 1/3 cup Curd (yogurt) mint & coriander chutney
- 2 tsp Oil
- Aluminium Foil to roll
Instructions
For Chapatis
- In mixing bowl, add wheat flour, grated carrot, oil, carom seeds and salt. Mix it well. (You can make plain chapati or even fulka if you don't want to use carrot).
- Make soft dough adding water slowly. Dough should be semi soft. Cover it and keep it aside for 15 minutes. Again, knead the dough for about one minute.
- Divide the dough in to 11 equal size ball. Make small size round ball as shown in picture.
- Heat iron tava on medium heat. Dust one dough ball with wheat flour and roll in 6 inch circular shape on a rolling board with the help of rolling pin. You may need to dust the dough multiple times during the rolling process so that it does not get stuck on rolling board.
- Place the raw chapati on hot tava, Once you see small bubbles popping up on chapati, turn it over. grease some oil on it. Again flip it to other side and grease some oil on the other side. Roast the chapati from both side till slightly golden color.
- When its done, place it in chapati box. Make all chapati following the same process. Cover it and keep it aside.
For Frankie
- Heat oil in a non-stick pan at medium to high. Throw thinly chopped bell peppers, sprinkle black pepper powder, kashmiri red chili and pinch of salt.
- Saute it for about 3 minutes until bell peppers gets brown. Once its done, turn off the heat. Place it aside on a plate.
- Keep all ingredients nearby. Take out the fish bone as much possible so that it does not hurt while eating.
- To make Frankie roll, take aluminium foil about half of the size of chapati in rectangular shape. Place a chapati on the foil so that half portion is on foil and half outside. Place some lettuce, onions, tandoori salmon, some roasted bell peppers and pour 1 tbsp yogurt mint chutney at the center of the chapati.
- Fold about an inch from the bottom of the chapati, then fold from both side so that both side overlaps with each other (as shown in picture).
- Wrap it using the aluminium foil below the chapati. Prepare all Frankies using the same process.
- Arrange tandoori salmon Frankies in serving plate. You can use any fish or even chicken in this recipe.
- Tandoori salmon Frankie is ready to be served.
- Enjoy Frankie as lunch or dinner.
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