I love Ethiopian food, but it’s a relatively recent discovery for me.
We first went to the wonderful and super friendly Blue Nile in Birmingham a couple of years ago, and I fell in love immediately with the delicious, healthy veg pack feast served up.
We pretty much always have the same thing, which is Yetsom Beyaynetu, a huge injera bread topped with multiple small veggie dishes around the outside, then a big pile of spicy lentils in the middle.
Then another plate of rolled up of the squishy fermented injera bread to dip and scoop up all the delicious dishes. The perfect sharing of food, a healthy and tasty plant based feast.
I’m still working on creating my injera bread, but today I made a quick flatbread/pancake to accompany my spicy lentils and although it doesn’t compare, I think it’s a pretty good accompaniment and uses a combination of flours (including delicious teff which injera bread is made from).
I used Free From Fairy self-raising wholemeal flour which includes teff, buckwheat, and sorghum — some of my favourite gluten-free flours and the result is pretty good!
I also created my version of Misir Wat spicy lentils, and they are so, so good. I used Berbere spice to flavour the lentils–it’s usually a mix of chilli peppers, garlic, ginger, basil, korarima, rue, ajwain, nigella, and fenugreek.
To accompany the spicy lentils, but I made some roast squash, hummus, and my favourite cabbage salad. But you can do any veggies you like or have leftover.
Mezze type meals are truly my favourite way of eating, lots of individual dishes which are good on their own but even better eaten together.
Enjoy, love Niki xx
Tori
Hi Niki, Could I mix gluten free flour, teff and buckwheat? After 4 days fermenting a strict teff batter, it all failed at the cooking phase ♀️
Maria
Looks amazing
Niki
Thanks so much! Xx
Cassie Autumn Tran
Looks delicious! Ethiopian food is one of my favorite cuisines. I haven’t had it in a while, and I’ve also always wanted to make that squishy bread!
Niki
Thanks Cassie!
It’s amazing right?
Love, Niki xx