What do you do if you have a baguette that needs to be eaten, some mince, an onion and a bunch of eggs? Roti John for breakfast of course!

The perfect food!

Roti John is a Singaporean/Malay hawker food that I fell in love with when I was living there. It is quite simply a perfect sandwich and an example of brilliant fusion food. Apparently it was concocted in Singapore by a local hawker dude who had a foreign customer that would come in each day and ask for an onion omelet with a side of French bread. The inventive hawker dude decided it would be cool to try and combine the two and hence the roti john – John being the name all foreigners were given in Singapore by the locals at time – as we know it was born.

To make this delectable treat you will need:

100g of minced meat of choice (you can use pork, chicken, beef, lamb, seafood or even take the casing off a good sausage and use that! The most “authentic” meat to use is beef.)
3 eggs
1 small onion
Salt to taste
Black pepper to taste
1 loaf of french bread, cut lengthwise in half
oil for frying
Sweet chili sauce and mayo to serve

Chop the onion and mix up the eggs, meat, onion, salt and pepper to a batter, spoon the mixture on to the cut side of the bread, and then quickly flip the bread, batter side down, on to a hot griddle pan with plenty of (olive) oil. Flatten the bread a little with your frying device of choice to make a crisp and browned, eggy surface. When cooked to sufficient goody goodness, turn the bread and fry on the other side as well to crisp the bread up a little. To serve, slice up the bread, plate it and dish up plenty of chili sauce and, if you want to go all out, mayo.

Enjoy!