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Recipes with chapatis

3 recipes that use chapatis, with photos, step-by-step instructions and cook times. The quickest, Smocha, takes 15 minutes. It is most often cooked with green chilli, red onion and tomato.

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Smocha

Smocha is a Nairobi invention: a smokie (a smoked pork sausage) rolled up in a chapati, which gives the snack its name. Glass-fronted handcarts keep the smokies hot in water on every corner of the CBD, along Moi Avenue and outside the University of Nairobi, and the sellers split them, add a spoon of fresh kachumbari salad and a squeeze of chilli sauce or ketchup, roll the lot in a chapati and twist it in paper. It is the cheap, filling bite students grab between lectures and workers eat on the walk to the matatu. It is not the same as smokie pasua, which is the sausage on its own with the salad. Chef's tip: drain the kachumbari well before it goes in, or the chapati turns soggy.

15 minEast AfricanFast Food
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Kikomando

Kampala students named this after a commando film hero, the joke being that it gives you the strength to survive on almost no money, and roadside chapati makers from Makerere to Wandegeya still sell it all evening. Hot chapatis are chopped into strips and folded through a quick, peppery bean stew, so the bread soaks up the sauce yet keeps a little chew. Raw onion, tomato and green chilli on top make it fresh and crunchy. The mistake is drowning it: the beans should be thick enough to cling, not soup. Ready-made chapatis work well, but check they are made with oil if you want it vegan. Chef's tip: warm the chapatis in a dry pan until they puff and blister before chopping; cold ones turn rubbery in the sauce.

30 minEast AfricanFast FoodVegan
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Rolex

The rolex is Uganda's most famous street food, its name a play on 'rolled eggs': at stalls all over Kampala, and now the whole country, a vendor beats eggs with shredded cabbage, tomato and onion, fries a thin omelette, lays a fresh chapati on top and rolls the two together. It is breakfast, lunch and late-night food. Unlike the Mombasa coast egg chapati, nothing is folded inside raw pastry: the omelette and a soft, ready-cooked chapati are rolled together. Chef's tip: cook the omelette thin and wide, the size of the chapati, so every bite has egg.

20 minEast AfricanBreakfast & Brunch
by KrazyBadal 0 views

Goes well with chapatis