Winner of a 2020 James Beard Foundation Book Award in the International category Ethiopia stands as a land apart: never colonised, the country celebrates and preserves ancient traditions. The fascinating cuisine is enriched with the different religious influences of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - a combination unique to Africa. The delicious dishes featured are Doro Wat, chicken slowly stewed with berbere spice, Yeassa Alichia, curried fish stew, and Siga Tibs, flashfried beef cubes, as well as a wealth of vegetarian dishes such as Gomen, minced collard greens with ginger and garlic and Azifa, green lentil salad. Chef Yohanis takes the reader on a journey through all the essential dishes of his native country, including the traditional Injera made from the staple grain teff and synonymous with an Ethiopian feast, along the way telling wondrous stories of the local communities and customs. Complete with photography of the country's stunning landscapes and vibrant artisans, this book demonstrates why Ethiopian food should be considered as one of the world's greatest, most enchanting cuisines.

Why wait for a trip to your favorite Ethiopian restaurant? Import the delicious flavors of Ethiopia right to your own kitchen! Kittee Berns has demystified this cuisine so you can savor authentic Ethiopian food without ever leaving home. Discover how to source and use the tantalizing seasonings and savory ingredients that are the foundation of these unique dishes. Kittee introduces the holy trinity of Ethiopian cooking: a berbere spice blend, injera (the fermented sourdough staple), and ye qimem zeyet, a veganized clarified butter. Armed with these basics, you'll be ready to dazzle your family and friends with many of the popular dishes found on veggie combo platters in restaurants all over North America. From saucy wots, spicy stews, and succulent stir-fries to traditional injera-based dishes and fusion foods that blend these unique seasonings into a range of family favorites, fans of this cuisine will be thrilled. Recipes are almost entirely gluten- and soy-free, or can be made so with easy adaptions. You'll also find tips on tools and equipment to time-saving techniques and menu suggestions. Just pull up a mesob (a traditional woven stand or basket), perch your platter on top, and get ready to party Ethiopian style!

"Delicious and delightful - the exquiste flavours of Ethiopia are utterly divine. From the spices to the presentation method, a meal in Ethiopia is an experience!"--Page 4 cover

There are so many international cuisines that have become commonplace in the western world - so much so that we almost forget that there are thousands of other amazing places just lying in wait, with incredible food waiting to be tried. With Ethiopian cuisine providing the perfect example. Providing us with some of the most culturally-rich food on the planet, Ethiopian cuisine is renowned for being spicy, aromatic, and healthy - and now it's readily available for you to prepare in your own home. This cookbook is full to brim with simple step by step Ethiopian recipes that are perfect for the average cook and professional chef alike! In this book, you will learn how to cook: Aromatic Ethiopian breakfast Amazing Ethiopian appetizers Famous Ethiopian dinners Sweet and delicious Ethiopian desserts Ethiopian cuisine is fast become some of the most well recognized on the planet - so what are you waiting for? Take the first step towards cooking some of the best food in the world!

Ethiopian dishes are usually prepared in stew forms and almost always served with injera. The main ingredients are meant, grains, and legumes. Red meat and chicken are prepared with butter, while fish, legumes, and grain dishes are prepared with oil. The amount of ingredients can be adjusted to ones taste, especially the berbere for spicy dishes. Mom has written the dishes she loved to prepare and serve. As she expressed it in her book, it is her sincere hope that you will enjoy cooking and serving these unique dishes as much as she does. Moms cookbook includes more dishes, traditional health drinks, and ingredients preparations. I translated most of the dishes and left the rest for future translation.

EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING the first definitive comprehensive cookbook devoted to Ethiopian food is a product of four years research & test. It has now been revised & extended. It tells how to prepare & serve each dish its full flavor & enable you, your family & friends to savor every succulent morsel. In EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING Mr. Mesfin, a worshiper of his native dish, brings to your table the secrets of fine Ethiopian cooking in 178 recipes covering from how to prepare basic ingredients & a wide range of mean, chicken, fish, vegetables, bread, alcoholic & non alcoholic beverages in 310 pages of easy to follow directions. Many of the most popular dishes are shown in full colors, to help you appreciate their beauty as well as their flavor. The section on society, culture, hospitality, traditions & the food composition tables will fascinate & enlighten people from all walks of life from the social & nutritional aspect of the ancient traditions. EXOTIC ETHIOPIAN COOKING is indispensable to anyone who has had the privilege of sampling Ethiopian food & knows that there are a thousand & one delights to be found in it & to those who have not had the glorious opportunity & have missed culinary pleasures that have excited the palates of diners for centuries.

How old is Ethiopian cuisine and the unique way of eating it? Ethiopians proudly say their cuisine goes back 3,000 to 5,000 years. Archaeologists and historians now believe it emerged in the first millennium A.D. in Aksum, an ancient kingdom that occupied whats now the northern region of Ethiopia and the southern region of neighboring Eritrea. But regardless of when Ethiopians began to eat spicy wots atop the spongy flatbread injera, or when they first drank the intoxicating honey wine called tej, their cuisine remains unique in the world. Mesob Across America: Ethiopian Food in the U.S.A. brings together what respected scholars and passionate Ethiopians know and believe about this delectable cuisine. From the ingredients of the Ethiopian kitchen the foods, the spices, and the ways of combining them to a close-up look at the cuisines history and culture, Mesob Across America is both comprehensive and anecdotal. Explore the history of how restaurant communities emerged in the U.S., and visit them as they exist today. Learn how to prepare a five-course Ethiopian meal, including homemade tej. And solve the mystery of when Ethiopian food made its debut in America which was not when most Ethiopians think it did.