Saturday night 6/26, after an early morning of church yard sale extravaganza (We'll be sure to post an up-date on the yard sale success soon.), we finally had our evening to experience Ethiopian food for the first time. It was very delicious and very unique to anything we had previously experienced. Eric remembered slight similarities in eating styles from Kenya, and April had eaten without utensils at a fish-head curry meal in Singapore, but this was different from either of these experiences.
We ate without utensils. Instead we used rolled up Ethiopian injera bread that we tore pieces from to pick up our food. This unique bread reminded us of a very thin pancake that had not been flipped. It had bubbled holes on the top and was flat on the bottom. All of our main and side dishes were "dumped" onto our large round plate of injera, with the sides dishes lining the outside. The main dishes were spicy-hot with meat, while the outside veggie salads were more tangy and sweet. This was a nice way to enjoy the hot and delicious spices of the main dishes, while having a different "cooling" side dish to sample in between. We also ate an appetizer called sambusa with was a spiced beef mixture fried in a pastry. All of it was very delicious!
After returning home, we googled Ethiopian bread and found this website with great pictures and a recipe for injera. Does anyone know where to find teff flour? If you do, please let us know and we'll give it a try. http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/recipe-injera.html
We ate without utensils. Instead we used rolled up Ethiopian injera bread that we tore pieces from to pick up our food. This unique bread reminded us of a very thin pancake that had not been flipped. It had bubbled holes on the top and was flat on the bottom. All of our main and side dishes were "dumped" onto our large round plate of injera, with the sides dishes lining the outside. The main dishes were spicy-hot with meat, while the outside veggie salads were more tangy and sweet. This was a nice way to enjoy the hot and delicious spices of the main dishes, while having a different "cooling" side dish to sample in between. We also ate an appetizer called sambusa with was a spiced beef mixture fried in a pastry. All of it was very delicious!
After returning home, we googled Ethiopian bread and found this website with great pictures and a recipe for injera. Does anyone know where to find teff flour? If you do, please let us know and we'll give it a try. http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/recipe-injera.html
Yum! That sounds amazing. It would be awesome if you could find teff flour (never heard of it) so you could make injera. Mmmmm....
ReplyDeleteWhat fun!! It is so much fun to experience and "taste" a new culture especially one that will be a part of your lives!! We recently ate at a Indian/Nepali restaurant in Harrisburg that had amazing food. It was a great way to feel a little more "connected" to our little one :) Now I need to try my hand at some of these foods!!
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