Rolex (Ugandan Chapati Roll with Eggs) 🌯

Name: Rolex (Ugandan Chapati Roll with Eggs)
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Ugandan
Ingredients: For chapatis: 2 cups flour, ½ tsp salt, 2 tbsp oil, ~¾ cup water — dough rested 30 min, rolled thin and blistered in a hot oiled pan; 2 eggs per roll, beaten with 1 small tomato diced, ¼ onion finely sliced, 1 green chilli minced, salt; Oil for frying; optional fillings: boiled mashed potato with turmeric; red kidney beans; shredded cabbage

Kampala's most famous watch costs less than a bus ride. A thin chapati is fried pliable, an egg beaten with tomato, onion and green chilli is poured onto its centre and folded into a tight cylinder — rolled so it hands you the future without leakage. Stand at any taxi park at six in the morning and you'll watch a woman chain-make three hundred of them: flip, pour, fold, wrap in paper, 'next'. Add a mashed-potato line (that's a 'special'), beans, or the infamous goat meat, and you have the meal that fuels the city. The name, everyone agrees, is because it's rolled — like the wristwatch.

Central Region Ugandan ⏱ 30 min Easy

Method

1

Make the chapatis first: divide rested dough into golf balls, stretch as thin as you can until almost see-through, slap into a hot oiled skillet and fry, flipping, until freckled and flexible. Keep warm under a towel.
2

Beat the eggs with tomato, onion, chilli and salt — a tiny splash of water keeps them soft.
3

Pour a stripe of egg across the middle of a chapati on low heat and let it set halfway; the roll is a race against runny egg.
4

Fold the sides in and roll forward into a tight cylinder, seam down; press the seam a second on the pan to seal.
5

Wrap in paper like the street sellers do and bite before it cools. If you want 'special', lay a band of mashed potato down before the egg. Ugandans will argue they invented that. They did.

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