Rolex

Ingredients

• Flour400 g
• Warm water240 ml
• Eggs8
• Cabbage — finely shredded200 g
• Tomatoes3
• Onions2
• Carrot1
• Chilli1
• Vegetable oil120 ml
• Salt and pepperto taste

Salt and spices grow more slowly than the rest: doubling a dish does not double the pepper.

Weight converts to ounces and volume to cups. Grams of flour are not turned into cups, because that depends on how tightly it is packed.

Method

1. 1

   Knead a soft dough from the flour, warm water, a spoon of oil and salt and rest it twenty minutes.

   25 min

2. 2

   Roll a ball thin, brush it with oil, roll it into a rope, coil it like a snail and roll it out again.

   15 min

3. 3

   Cook the chapatis over medium heat, a minute and a half a side, and keep them under a cloth.

   15 min

4. 4

   Shred the cabbage, carrot, onion, tomatoes and chilli as fine as you can.

   12 min

5. 5

   Beat the eggs with the vegetables, salt and pepper; the vegetables belong inside the omelette, not on top.

   5 min

6. 6

   Pour a portion of egg into the pan, let it set and lay a chapati on top, pressing it down.

   8 min

7. 7

   Flip the two together, slide them onto a board omelette up and roll it tight.

   6 min

About the dish

The chapati here is thicker and softer than the Indian kind: oil goes into the dough and it is rolled in a spiral to build layers. A stiff flatbread cracks when rolled.

The omelette is cooked onto the chapati: the egg goes into the pan, the flatbread is laid on top and the two are flipped together. They then stick and do not slide apart as you eat.

The name comes from "rolled eggs" said fast. It has nothing to do with watches, though Ugandans are happy to keep the joke going.

Worth knowing

• — Roll the chapati while it is warm. A cooled one cracks at the fold and the whole roll falls apart.
• — Cut the vegetables very fine. Large pieces will not cook inside the egg and fall out as you eat.
• — On the street anything goes into a rolex — avocado, sausage, a second egg. The base version with cabbage and tomato is the standard.

Nutrition

Per serving at the base yield, calculated from the ingredients rather than measured in a lab.

Calories

560 kcal

Protein

20 g

Fat

30 g

Carbs

52 g

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