Chipsi Mayai
Tanzania's favorite street food: crispy fries set in a fluffy omelet, served with kachumbari salad and chili sauce.
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⏱ 30 min📶 Easy👫 Serves 2🥬 Vegetarian☪ Muslim-friendly
Ingredients (for 2)
- Potatoes, 2 medium, cut into fries
- Eggs, 4
- Oil, for frying
- Tomato, 1, diced
- Red onion, ½, thinly sliced
- Cucumber, ¼, diced
- Lime, 1
- Chili sauce & ketchup, to serve
Steps
- Fry the potatoes until golden and crisp, then drain and salt.
- For kachumbari, mix the tomato, onion and cucumber with lime juice and salt.
- Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt.
- Put half the fries in a lightly oiled pan, pour over half the eggs and cook until set; flip and cook 1 minute more. Repeat.
- Serve with kachumbari and chili sauce.
Cook it together: One handles the fries, the other makes the salad and flips the omelets.
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