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Chapati rolled around an omelette with cabbage, tomato and onion – Uganda’s most famous street food.

Eaten in: Uganda

Prep
10 min
Cooking
10 min
Total
20 min
Servings
2

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About the dish

The rolex is a Ugandan snack whose name is a pun: “rolled eggs”, said quickly, sounds like the Swiss watch. The vendor fries a thin omelette with shredded cabbage, tomato, onion and pepper on a griddle, lays a fresh chapati on top and rolls it all up into a tight wrap. It began as a cheap meal for students around Kampala and is now sold across the country at any time of day. It is filling, inexpensive and made right in front of you.

Main ingredients

  • chapati
  • eggs
  • cabbage
  • tomato
  • onion
  • green pepper

More: Wikipedia (en)

Recipe

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https://foodmap.ominuvo.com/dish/rolex

Ingredients

2 servings

2 servings

Method

  1. Finely dice the tomato, onion and pepper and mix them with the cabbage.

  2. Beat 2 eggs in a bowl with half the vegetables and a pinch of salt.

  3. Heat a spoonful of oil in a frying pan, pour in the egg mixture and spread it to the size of the chapati.

  4. When the base has set, lay a chapati on top and press it down, then after a minute flip everything chapati-side down and warm for 30 seconds more.

  5. Slide it onto a board omelette-side up, roll it tightly and cut in half; repeat with the rest of the ingredients.

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