Taste Ethiopia
ኢትዮጵያ
Wats (stews), vegetarian fasting dishes, raw kitfo in some communities, coffee ceremony, and teff injera as plate and bread. Ethiopian and Eritrean kitchens are related and should not be flattened into one tourist platter.
8 recipes · 1 cuisine
Essential dishes
Injera
እንጀራ
Sour teff crepes — the plate and the bread. The first one sticks. The ferment is the flavour.
48 hr 50 minA bit of workNo chilli
Doro wat
ዶሮ ወጥ
Chicken in a dark berbere-onion sauce, a hard-boiled egg — the feast pot, not a weeknight curry.
2 hrMedium🌶️🌶️🌶️
Misir wat
ምስር ወጥ
Red lentils in berbere — the fasting pot that is also Tuesday dinner.
55 minEasy🌶️🌶️🌶️
Shiro wat
ሽሮ ወጥ
Ground chickpea stew — silky, berbere-warm, and the pot that looks like nothing until you taste it.
35 minEasy🌶️🌶️
Gomen
ጎመን
Greens stewed with garlic and ginger — the vegetable that sits next to the wats.
50 minEasyNo chilli
Kitfo
ክትፎ
Minced beef, spiced butter and mitmita — traditionally raw. This is the briefly warmed home version unless you trust the butcher.
20 minEasy🌶️🌶️🌶️
Tibs
ጥብስ
Seared beef or lamb with onion, chilli and rosemary — the sizzling platter, not a stew.
27 minEasy🌶️🌶️
Atkilt wat
አትክልት ወጥ
Cabbage, potato and carrot in turmeric and a little berbere — the yellow vegetable pot.
45 minEasy🌶️
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Highland agriculture, Orthodox fasting calendars, Islamic trading cities, and a spice logic built on berbere and niter kibbeh. This is one of the world's great vegetarian repertoires, born from religious practice as much as preference.