Roti John
Roti John

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, roti john. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Roti John is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Roti John is something which I have loved my entire life.

Roti is the Malay word for bread, and more generally for any bread-based or bread-like food, including sandwiches and pancakes. The origin of john within the name of the dish has not been definitively proven, but may derive from British use of the first name John to address any male person, especially when that person's first name is unknown, difficult to remember or difficult to. The roti John recipe is originally from Malaysia and comes with an interesting story, even though it is quite recent.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have roti john using 36 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Roti John:
  1. Take Simple Sambal:
  2. Take 10 g Dried Chilies,
  3. Make ready 10 g Shallots Coarsely Chopped,
  4. Prepare 1/2 Red Onion Coarsely Chopped,
  5. Get 3 Cloves Garlic,
  6. Get 1/2 Inch Ginger,
  7. Get 1 Candle Nut / Macadamia Nut,
  8. Get 1 TBSP Belachan,
  9. Make ready 1 TBSP Tamarind Paste,
  10. Take Pinch Sea Salt,
  11. Make ready Palm Sugar, 1 TBSP Adjust To Preference
  12. Prepare BBQ Sambal Sauce:
  13. Take 1 Green Bell Pepper,
  14. Take 2 TBSP Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil,
  15. Take 1/2 Red Onion Sliced,
  16. Make ready Celery Coarsely Sliced, 2 Ribs
  17. Take 3 Cloves Garlic Coarsely Sliced,
  18. Get 1/8 Cup Palm Sugar,
  19. Get 1 Bay Leaf,
  20. Make ready 1 TBSP Dijion Mustard,
  21. Take Simple Sambal, 2 TBSP Adjust To Preference
  22. Prepare 1.5 Cup Tomato Ketchup,
  23. Prepare 1 TSP Worcestershire Sauce,
  24. Prepare 1/8 Cup Pure Honey,
  25. Make ready 1/8 Cup Balsamic Vinegar,
  26. Take Kashmiri Chili Powder, 1/2 TSP Adjust To Preference
  27. Make ready Roti John:
  28. Take 300 g Chicken Thigh Ground,
  29. Prepare 3 Eggs,
  30. Prepare 1 TSP Madras Curry Powder,
  31. Prepare Sambal, 1 TBSP Adjust To Preference
  32. Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
  33. Take Pinch White Pepper,
  34. Take Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Toasting
  35. Take 2 Good Quality Baguette,
  36. Prepare Kewpie Mayo, For Spreading

Roti John is a hawker food from Singapore and Malaysia, especially popular for breakfast. It's a fusion British & Malay dish. Legend has a history that goes back many years when every British person was called John. A British John was missing his burger and one morning he tried to explain to a hawker what a burger was.

Instructions to make Roti John:
  1. Pls visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/madras-curry-powder for the Madras curry powder.
  2. Prepare sambal. - - Soak dried chilies in a bowl of hot water until softened. - - Deseed the chilies. You can leave the seeds on to your preference. - - Transfer into a blender.
  3. Add in shallots, onion, garlic, ginger and candle nut. - - Blitz until smooth paste forms. - - In a skillet over medium heat, add belachan. - - Break it into pieces.
  4. Toast until aromatic. - - Add in the chili paste. - - You can add about 1/2 cup of water into the blender and blitz up all the leftover nooks and crannies. Add into the skillet.
  5. Stir to combine well. - - Add in tamarind. Season with salt and sugar. - - Stir to combine well. - - Keep stirring and cooking until most of the liquid has evaporated and the color has darkened.
  6. Taste and adjust for seasoning with salt and sugar. - - Remove from heat and set aside. - - Prepare sambal BBQ sauce.
  7. Preheat oven to broil. - - Cut the bell pepper into quarters. - - Transfer into a baking tray lined with parchment paper. - - Wack into the oven and bake until charred. - - Remove from oven and transfer into a bowl.
  8. Cover with cling film and set aside to cool. - - Once cooled enuff to handle, peel and discard the charred skin. - - Coarsely slice and set aside. - - In a skillet over medium heat, add oil.
  9. Once oil is heated up, add onion and garlic. - - Sauce until translucent. - - Add in the roasted bell pepper, garlic and sugar. - - Sauce until well combined.
  10. Transfer into a blender. - - Be careful as it is extremely hot. - - Blitz until smooth paste forms. - - Transfer back into the skillet over medium heat.
  11. Add in bay leaf, mustard, sambal, ketchup, Worcestershire, honey, vinegar and chili powder. - - Stir to combine well. - - Bring it up to a slow simmer. - - Turn the heat down to low. - - Cover and simmer for 15 mins.
  12. After 15 mins, the sauce should be reduced slightly and most of the liquid has evaporated. - - Taste and adjust for seasonings with salt, sugar or sambal. - - Remove from heat and set aside until ready to use. - - It can be kept in the fridge for 7 days.
  13. Prepare the Roti John. - - In a bowl, add chicken, eggs, curry powder, sambal, salt and pepper. - - Stir to combine well. - - Slice baguette into halves.
  14. Slice lengthwise into halves, but not all the way thru. - - In a cast iron skillet over medium-low heat, add oil. - - Once oil is heated up, add in the egg mixture. - - Try to form the egg mixture into the size of your baguette.
  15. Place the baguette onto the egg mixture. - - Press the baguette to adhere to the egg mixture. - - Cook until brown. - - Flip and toast the baguette.
  16. Repeat the steps for the remaining baguette. - - In a bowl, add 1 TBSP of the sambal BBQ sauce and 1 TBSP of Kewpie mayo. - - Mix to combine well.
  17. Spread that mayo sambal BBQ sauce onto the baguette. - - Close and sandwich. - - Serve immediately.

From there it spread to other parts of Malaysian peninsula and has become a classic hawker dish that is always freshly prepared and served warm, typically sliced into smaller pieces. A Malaysian Roti John is generally pick up on the way by Malaysians back home from a night out in Malaysia from a street vendor, and Roti John is delicious. Roti John, essentially an omelette sandwich, is a popular Malay breakfast and snack item in Malaysia and Singapore. There are many versions for roti john. This roti john version uses either mutton or chicken.

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