Egg and cabbage kottu roti

  • Vegetarian
  • Lactose free

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

  • Good for lunch
  • Good for dinner

Home-style Sri Lankan chopped flatbread with egg, cabbage and chilli.

4 servingsFinal yield 1,050 g

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Ingredients

  • 320 gWheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
  • 180 gBeverages, water, tap, drinking
  • 3 gSalt, table
  • 110 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
  • 250 gCabbage, common (danish, domestic, and pointed types), freshly harvest, raw
  • 120 gCarrots, raw
  • 180 gOnions, raw
  • 15 gGinger root, raw
  • 15 gPeppers, hot chili, green, raw
  • 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
  • 25 gSoy sauce made from soy and wheat (shoyu)
  • 3 gSpices, cumin seed
  • 3 gSpices, turmeric, ground

Method

  1. Knead flour, 180 g water and 1 g salt for 8 minutes into an elastic dough. Cover and rest for 20 minutes.
  2. Divide dough into four balls, roll thin flatbreads and cook each dry at 190 °C for about 2 minutes per side. Cool 5 minutes and cut into narrow strips.
  3. Shred cabbage and carrot, slice onion, mince ginger and cut chilli into rings. Beat eggs with the remaining 2 g salt.
  4. Heat oil to 180 °C in a wok, bloom cumin and turmeric for 30 seconds, then add onion, ginger and chilli. Stir for 3 minutes.
  5. Add cabbage and carrot and fry at 180 °C for 4 minutes. Clear a space in the centre, add egg and stir for 2 minutes until set.
  6. Add flatbread strips and soy sauce. At 180 °C chop and toss with two spatulas for 4 minutes until hot; all oil remains in the served kottu.

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Nutrition

Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.

Whole recipe

Energy
1,776.2 kcal
Protein
56.4 g
Fat
40.6 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
295.4 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
22.5 g
Saturated fatty acids
7.7 g
Sodium
2,850.1 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
7.1 g

Per serving

Energy
444 kcal
Protein
14.1 g
Fat
10.1 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
73.8 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
5.6 g
Saturated fatty acids
1.9 g
Sodium
712.5 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
1.8 g

Per 100 g of finished food

Energy
169.2 kcal
Protein
5.4 g
Fat
3.9 g
Total carbohydrate (by difference)
28.1 g
Total dietary fibre (USDA)
2.1 g
Saturated fatty acids
0.73 g
Sodium
271.4 mg
Salt (sodium × 2.5)
0.68 g

Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.

A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.

Calculation limitations

  • Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
  • The final yield is an editorial estimate.
  • The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
  • Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
  • Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.

Allergens

Contains: Gluten, Egg, Soy

Derived from ingredients – check the package label.

Food data sources

  • USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal