List of Ethiopian dishes and foods

This is a list of Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes and foods. Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisines characteristically consists of vegetable and often very spicy meat dishes, usually in the form of ''wat'' (also ''w'et'', ''wot'' or ''tsebhi''), a thick stew, served atop ''injera'', a large sourdough flatbread,Javins, Marie
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Accessed July 2011. which is about in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians and Eritreans eat exclusively with their right hands, using pieces of ''injera'' to pick up bites of entrées and side dishes. Utensils are rarely used with Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes and foods

* '' Dabo kolo'' – snack and finger food consisting of small pieces of baked bread
* ''Ensete'' – an economically important food crop in Ethiopia and Eritrea
* ''Teff'' – a grain widely cultivated and used in Eritrea and Ethiopia, where it is used to make injera or tayta. Teff accounts for about a quarter of total cereal production in Ethiopia.
* '' Fir-fir'' – an Ethiopian and Eritrean food typically served for breakfast.
* ''Ful medames'' – an Egyptian dish of cooked and mashed fava beans served with vegetable oil, cumin and optionally with chopped parsley, onion, garlic, and lemon juice, it is also a popular meal in Ethiopia, Eritrea and other countries.
* ''Ga'at'' or ''genfo'' – a stiff porridge
* ''Gored gored'' – a raw beef dish
* ''Guizotia abyssinica'' – an erect, stout, branched annual herb, grown for its edible oil and seed.
* ''Himbasha''
* ''Injera'' – a spongy, slightly sour flatbread regularly served with other dishes.
* ''Kitfo''
* '' Niter kibbeh'' – seasoned clarified butter used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cooking.
* ''Rhamnus prinoides''
* ''Samosa'' (also ''sambusa'')
* '' Shahan ful''
* '' Shiro'' – a stew with primary ingredients of powdered chickpeas or broad bean meal
* '' Tibs'' - cubes of beef in wat
* ''Tihlo'' - barley flour kneaded into soft balls and served with meat stew with berbere, Habesha spice, onions, tomato paste, water and salt
* Wat – stew that may be prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, a variety of vegetables, spice mixtures such as berbere, and niter kibbeh. Wat is traditionally eaten with injera.

File:Teff pluim Eragrostis tef.jpg, ''Eragrostis tef''
File:Taita fit-fit.jpg, Fir-fir
File:Ful medames (arabic meal).jpg, Ful medames served with sliced hard-boiled eggs
File:Ga'at food.jpg, Ga'at

Spices

* ''Aframomum corrorima'' – The spice known as korarima, Ethiopian cardamom, or false cardamom ''Aframomum corrorima'' was published in ''Spices, Condiments and Medicinal Plants in Ethiopia, Their Taxonomy and Agricultural Significance''. (Agric. Res. Rep. 906 & Belmontia New Series) 12:10. 1981. The specific epithet was taken from its basionym, ''Amomum corrorima'' A.Braun is obtained from the plant's seeds (usually dried), and is extensively used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine. It is an ingredient in berbere, mitmita, awaze, and other spice mixtures, and is also used to flavor coffee.
* '' Berbere'' – usually include chili peppers, garlic, ginger, basil, ''korarima'', rue, ajwain or radhuni, nigella, and fenugreek.
* ''Mitmita'' – a powdered seasoning mix used in Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

File:KororimaWhole01.jpg, Dried korarima fruits from ''Aframomum corrorima'', in preparation for making berbere
File:Berberespice.jpg, Berbere

Beverages

* Coffee - A brewed drink made from Ethiopian coffee beans and used in a jebena.
* '' Tej'' – A honey wine or mead that is brewed and consumed in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
* ''Tella'' – A traditional beer from Ethiopia and Eritrea that is brewed from various grains, typically teff and sorghum. It is called '' siwa'' in Tigray and Eritrea.

ET Amhara asv2018-02 img098 Lake Tana at Bahir Dar.jpg, Coffee roasting in Amhara Region
ET Amhara asv2018-02 img077 Lake Tana at Bahir Dar.jpg, Ethiopian tej

See also

* Ethiopian cuisine
* Eritrean cuisine
* List of African dishes
* Outline of Ethiopia
* Outline of Eritrea

References

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