Ethiopian recipes

5 viral Ethiopian dishes — clear, structured, and quick to cook.

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  Main course · 120 min · Medium

  Doro Wat — Ethiopian Spiced Chicken Stew

  Ethiopia's national dish and the centerpiece of every celebration: chicken slow-simmered in a deep, brick-red sauce of caramelized onions and berbere, enriched with spiced niter kibbeh butter, with whole eggs nestled in. Served on injera, scooped by hand.

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  Main · 40 min · Easy

  Tibs — Ethiopian Sautéed Beef

  The sizzling centrepiece of an Ethiopian meal: cubes of beef or lamb seared hard and fast with onion, garlic, rosemary, chilli and warm spiced butter until just done and gloriously fragrant. Tibs is celebration food — quick, smoky and deeply savoury — often brought to the table still spitting on a clay brazier, scooped up with torn injera. From mild to fiery, it's the dish that defines a feast.

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  Bread / Staple · 2930 min · Medium

  Injera — Ethiopian Sourdough Flatbread

  The soft, spongy sourdough flatbread at the heart of every Ethiopian and Eritrean meal: a naturally fermented teff batter poured onto a hot griddle and cooked on one side until it sets into a tangy, pliable, holey pancake. Injera is plate, utensil and bread all at once — you tear off pieces to scoop up stews (wot) and vegetables spread over a communal platter. Its slight sourness and airy 'eyes' come from days of wild fermentation.

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  Main · 40 min · Easy

  Shiro Wat — Ethiopian Spiced Chickpea Stew

  The ultimate Ethiopian comfort food: a smooth, savoury stew made from shiro — finely milled, spiced chickpea (or broad bean) flour — simmered with onion, garlic, berbere and spiced butter into a rich, creamy, nourishing sauce. Shiro wat is everyday sustenance, fasting food (when made with oil), and a national favourite, scooped up with injera. Quick, humble and deeply flavourful, it proves that some of the best dishes are also the simplest.

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  Main · 25 min · Medium

  Kitfo — Ethiopian Minced Beef with Spiced Butter

  A prized delicacy of Ethiopia, especially of the Gurage people: very finely minced lean beef gently warmed (or served raw) and dressed with niter kibbeh — spiced clarified butter — and mitmita, the fiery chilli blend. Kitfo is rich, buttery and deeply flavoured, traditionally served leb leb (lightly warmed) or tere (raw), with ayib (mild cottage cheese), gomen (greens) and injera or kocho. It's celebration food and a true Ethiopian indulgence, all about the quality of the beef and the spiced butter.

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