This flavorful Frankie recipe (also known as a Bombay burrito or Indian burrito) is bursting with flavor! It’s made with curried mashed potatoes, roasted cauliflower and chickpeas, pickled onions, and an amazing Cilantro Mint Chutney! Video.
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What is a Frankie?
Frankies are India’s flavorful street food, also known as the Mumbai Burrito, Bombay Burrito, or roti wrap – this vegan version is filled with curry mashed potatoes, roasted Indian cauliflower and chickpeas, fresh spinach, Cilantro Mint Chutney and Pickled onions, all wrapped up in a warm tortilla.
Healthy and seriously bursting with flavor! Traditionally these would be wrapped in freshly made roti with a very thin layer of egg, but we’ve simplified things here a bit. 😉
In our catering business, we often served Frankies as mini tacos—these appetizers were always a huge hit!
If going grain-free or gluten-free, you could easily turn the whole thing into a “bowl”, with the curry mashed potatoes (or basmati rice) as the flavorful base.
If you have meat-eaters in your household, add chicken, which you could roast alongside the cauliflower.
Components of an Indian Burrito
To be upfront, this recipe has several components, and they all work together to create a beautiful balance of flavors. Pick a day when you have a little extra time. Read the recipe through so you are clear on what you’ll need and the steps. It’s not hard, and in the end, I promise it will be well worth it.
If this is your first time, I highly recommend making the pickled onions and the cilantro mint chutney a day ahead.
- Curry Mashed Potatoes (the flavorful “spread” that holds it all together)
- Roasted cauliflower and chickpea mixture, the burrito filling.
- Cilantro Mint Chutney. ( THE FLAVOR) Don’t even think about leaving this out. 🙂
- Pickled Red Onions -add a delicious acidity that balances it all out.
- Large tortillas or wraps
- Spinach or greens
How to make Frankies
Step one. Make the Cilantro Mint Chutney and the Pickled onions. You can do this a day ahead and refrigerate.
Step two. Make the curry mashed potatoes and the roasted cauliflower chickpea filling. You can do these both at the same time. The curry mashed potatoes give the burrito a beautiful creamy richness and help keep everything together. I know they may sound strange at first, but trust me, they really work here.
Step three. Assemble. Once the curry mashed potatoes and roasted cauliflower/chickpea filling are done… you are ready to go! Generously spread warm tortillas with the curry mashed potatoes. Layer with the warm filling, top with chutney and pickled onions and add a handful of greens. Wrap it up like a burrito, and serve warm. Prepare to be delighted.
Wrap it up like a burrito, and serve warm. Prepare to be delighted.
Chefs Tip
If you work efficiently, all these components can be made at the same time.
Storing Frankies
Leftover Frankies can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days.
This is a meal unto itself, but if you feel like you must serve it with something, I would pick an Indian-inspired salad or side!
What to serve with Frankies
- Indian Spinach Salad with Lentils & Cauliflower
- Bombay Carrot Salad
- Indian Lemon Rice
- Indian Masala Street Corn
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Enjoy the frankies, I am so excited for you to try them. Please leave your comments below.
xoxo
Watch How to Make Frankies
Frankie Recipe
- Prep Time: 40
- Cook Time: 30
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 4
- Category: Vegan Main, vegetarian
- Method: Roasted
- Cuisine: Indian
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
A delicious recipe for Frankies- India’s street food, also called a Mumbai Burrito or Bombay Burritos. Filled with curried potatoes, roasted cauliflower and chickpeas, spinach, cilantro mint chutney and pickled onions. Vegan! GF adaptable. It requires a few components- but well worth it!
Ingredients
Curry Mashed Potatoes (The “Spread”)
- 16 ounces baby potatoes – quartered
- 1 tablespoon ghee, olive oil or coconut oil, more to taste
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2–3 teaspoons yellow curry powder ( or see the notes)
- 1 teaspoon granulated onion or granulated garlic powder ( you could also incorporate sautéed onion and garlic into the potatoes for more flavor- see notes)
Roasted Cauliflower & Chickpea Filling
- 1 head cauliflower- cut into small florets
- 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained well
- 1–2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon coriander
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- generous pinch chili flakes
- 1 teaspoon whole fennel seed ( optional, or use cumin seed or coriander seed)
- 1 teaspoon whole coriander seed (optional)
Burrito Fixings
- 4 x extra-large, whole wheat tortillas – or feel free to use gluten-free wraps, or roti wraps or make bowls using the mashed potatoes and extra spinach and the base.
- 2 handfuls baby spinach
- Few tablespoons Cilantro Mint Chutney (imperative!!!)
- Few tablespoons Quick Pickled Onions
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F
- SAUCE: Make the flavorful Cilantro Mint Chutney and quick pickled red onions and place both in jars (of course, you could make these both ahead). They take about 5-10 minutes each. Please don’t leave out the mint chutney- it’s imperative!!!
- START POTATOES: Cut potatoes and place them in a medium pot, covered with water and simmer until very tender, about 15-20 minutes. At the same time…
- ROAST VEGGIES: Cut the cauliflower into small florets and place them on a parchment-lined sheet pan ( to one side). Add the drained chickpeas to the other side. Drizzle both with olive oil. Sprinkle cauliflower and chickpeas with the spices and salt, tossing to coat well. Place in the oven and roast for 20-25 minutes tossing halfway through) or until cauliflower is tender.
- CURRIED POTATOES: Once the potatoes are very tender, drain but save about 1 cup of the hot water. Place the potatoes back in the pot and mash with some of the hot water ( start with ¼-½ cup ) salt, spices and ghee (or oil) and mash the potatoes to combine until smooth. You want a fairly loose, spreadable mash so add more hot water if necessary. Scrape down the sides. Stir well. Taste. You want this to taste flavorful and slightly salty as the tortilla will mute some of the salt and flavor. Feel free to add more ghee or oil as you please for extra richness. Cover and keep warm.
- When the roasted veggies are done, ASSEMBLE: Warm the tortillas either in the oven, over a gas flame or over a grill, until soft and pliable. Spread generously with the curried potatoes, then top with chickpeas, cauliflower making sure to get some of the whole spices that will have dropped to the bottom of the pan. Add a handful of spinach leaves, a few teaspoons of cilantro mint chutney and some pickled onions and roll up like a burrito. Keep warm in the oven until ready to serve, or serve immediately! You can also refrigerate and reheat for meals on the go.
- Enjoy 🙂
Notes
Quick yellow curry spice (you will not need all): Mix 1 tablespoon ground coriander, 1 tablespoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon ground turmeric, 1 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp dry mustard, ¼ tsp ground white pepper (or black pepper), and ¼ tsp cayenne pepper.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 extra large wrap
- Calories: 490
- Sugar: 6.2 g
- Sodium: 1573.1 mg
- Fat: 15.6 g
- Saturated Fat: 2.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 77.1 g
- Fiber: 11.7 g
- Protein: 14.2 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Incredible recipe, some of the best seasoning for roasted chickpeas I’ve had ever! Just a heads up that ghee is not vegan, easy enough to just use olive oil but just a heads up for anyone making the recipe.
Thanks!
Just made my first wrap, and to be honest, I didn’t think it would be much, so we’ve just tried two wraps.
The wraps were excellent! I and my wife love the taste! I have to figure out how to fold the wraps properly, but that is a minor issue.
Thanks a lot for the recipe, it’s really excellent!
Please add 5 stars to my rating … I forgot sorry
So good, it has become a family staple! The curry mash potatoes, the sauce, the onions, the whole thing is just super yum.
Thanks so much for this recipe. I have been making this for over a year now, and it’s one of my absolute favourites
This recipe is a huge hit. I roasted some raw cashews with the chickpeas and cauliflower. Fabulous.
Just wanted to finally come and say thank you SO much for this recipe! I’ve made it at least a dozen times now and my husband and I both love it, it’s definitely one of our favourites. I like adding some mango chutney and spicy Indian pickle too (but I skip the jalapeños in the mint dressing!)
Simply Great! Not so Indian but I think a little twist of Zaatar sprinkled along carries the vegetables for sure Roasted Eggplant sprinkled with the Zaatar and added too. Great recipes everyone you post. Thanks for Wonderful recipes you share. I love all I’ve seen thus far. I’ve have cooked professionally for 46 years and the new plant based trend is like adding life to life and love to food.
I haven’t made it yet but how strong is the cilantro flavor? I have the awful gene where it taste like soap to me 😬 I really want to try this but don’t want to waste the ingredients if I’m going to hate it.
I dont think you’ll notice that flavor in sauce here when blended with the other ingredients. 🙂
I realise this is a year late but wanted to say I have the same gene and absolutely don’t experience it with this recipe! Probably the only recipe where that’s the case too!
Loved this recipe! Skipped the chickpeas and used mushrooms and bell pepper instead. Thank you Sylvia!
Best meal ever!
This was absolutely delicious! One of my favorite recipes! Thank you!
Cooking it now. I am guessing the cumin, coriander and salt are sprinkled over the roasted veggies.
Yes in step 3. 😉
A bit confused: are the serving size for 4 wraps or 1? Is it 490 cals in total or just 1 wrap? Thanks.
One Burrito is 490 calories- they are large. 🙂
I’m definitely buying the ingredients today to make this. Yum!
Sylvia, you are a genius! This recipe hits all the right notes! My husband and I couldn’t stop talking about how good this was. Pumped to have another vegan dish to add to our rotation. Thank you so much! Can’t wait to try more of your recipes 🙂
thanks Vanessa!
This was excellent. I put everything in little dishes and the family made their own wraps. Only I used less cumin in the cauliflower, as this is such a strong flavor. And, it is a little time consuming to make these wraps, but they were a big hit. Thanks for the recipe.
This looks so yummy and I’d love to make it! Can you put more detailed instructions with how to sub with real onions and garlic (vs. granulated)? I’d love to know how much onions and garlic I’d put in, how the onions should be cut and where I incorporate both into the recipe. Thanks!
Sorry for the delay- ok I added to the recipe notes!
I made it! Can’t stop eating it especially the cilantro mint tofu chutney. Bravo, Sylvia, bravo!
Glad you enjoyed this!
Made this last night! Thank you! Thank you! We needed another yummy meal to add to our routine and this was SO tasty!!
Just made this for lunch. Delicious! Thank you for the recipe.
These are absolutely delicious. The cilantro chutney and pickled onions really bring all the flavors together and make the Frankie “pop.” I use 2-3 tablespoons of the chutney in each sandwich. Also, I prefer lavash (Trader Joe’s sells them) for wraps as I find tortillas to be gummy. In this case, increase the amount of the potato spread, as the lavash makes a bigger roll. As another reviewer mentioned, the Bombay Carrot Salad goes great with these.
This is an amazing recipe, everything about it is perfect. It’s absolutely delicious. 100% recommend.
I made the frankies yesterday and everybody looooved them (all meat eaters btw)
They take a little in preparation, but soo worth it!!
I also decided to make a spicy tahini sauce (with tahini, lemon juice and sriracha) which goes super well with the burritos. I totally forgot to buy spinach and have left it out, but the burritos came out great anyway. Can only recommend this!!!
My kids really loved it,
Thanks for sharing
https://www.omgfeeds.com/leftover-chapati-recipe-make-easy-frankie-roll-from-leftover-chapati/
These Taste great along with the Bombay carrot salad and leave you feeling healthy!