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Kota (kota)

The kota is a street sandwich from Soweto: a hollowed-out wedge of bread stuffed with chips, sausage, melted cheese and atchar. Crispy, rich and very comforting, it is eaten standing up, by hand.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

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Instructions

  1. Cut the potatoes into thick sticks, rinse them, then dry them carefully in a tea towel.
  2. Fry the chips in oil at 170 °C for 6 to 8 minutes until golden, then drain and salt them.
  3. Cook the sausages in a pan or in the oven at 200 °C for 15 minutes, turning them, until well browned on the outside.
  4. Remove the crumb from the bread wedges, leaving a shell about 1 cm thick, to form a sort of case.
  5. Butter the inside of the breads and toast them for 2 minutes in a pan or under the grill.
  6. In each shell, place a layer of chips, then a sausage, then the cheddar slices so they melt from the heat of the sausage.
  7. Add the atchar, ketchup and sliced red onion, close with the bread lid and serve straight away while the cheese is still runny.

Variations and tips

Vegetarian version. Replace the sausages with grilled chickpea patties or tofu marinated in paprika.

Using what's available. If you can't find boerewors, merguez work very well.

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