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Rolex

Name: Rolex
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Uganda
Ingredients: 4 Egg; 2 (or flour tortillas) Chapati; 1/8 Cabbage; 1 Tomato; 1/4 Onion; 1/2 Green Bell Pepper; A pinch Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Snack

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 2

Difficulty ⭐

A vegetable omelet rolled up in a chapati — Uganda's national street food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

The Rolex is Uganda's hugely popular street food, its name said to be a corruption of 'rolled eggs.' An omelet with cabbage, tomato, and onion is cooked and rolled up in a chapati. Cheap and filling, it's loved by students and workers, and Kampala even holds an annual Rolex festival.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a roadside stall in Kampala in the evening, an omelet and chapati cook on the griddle, are deftly rolled, wrapped in paper, and handed to a motorbike-taxi driver.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 2)

Egg 4
Chapati 2 (or flour tortillas)
Cabbage 1/8
Tomato 1
Onion 1/4
Green Bell Pepper 1/2
Salt A pinch
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely chop the cabbage, tomato, onion, and green pepper.
Beat the eggs and mix in the vegetables and salt.
Heat oil in a frying pan and pour in half the egg mixture to make a thin round omelet.
Lay a chapati on the cooked omelet, press lightly, and flip them together to warm.
Roll up and wrap in paper. Repeat with the rest.

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