Celebrity chef Saransh Goila recently revealed a recipe for — and any French national reading this might want to look away now — a butter chicken croissant. In doing so, he gave a thoroughly desi twist to a bakery item that is traditionally had for breakfast in Europe, with a cup of coffee to wash it down with. It’s not that they never jazz it up with options like a cheese or salmon filling. But butter chicken? You might spot the Loch Ness monster before you spot Goila’s version of the croissant in a cafe in any European city.

Why restrict it to butter chicken, though? What about a croissant that has not just chocolate, which is common enough, but also bacon in it? We invited a former MasterChef contestant who made a name for herself, and a popular Mumbai-based home chef to give us their recipes for croissants that, like Goila’s desi one, are hatke.