Recipe - Doro Wot (Chicken Stew)

1 Whole chicken skinned and
Cut up
8 pound Onions chopped fine
1 pound Garlic mashed
One fourth pound Ginger mashed
2 Ladles full
1 pound Butter
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Nutmeg or cumin optional
1 Hardboiled egg per
Person
Berbere *

* Ethiopian chili powder (bere bere) Note: Mommy says nothing else will
serve, although chili powder is the closest) ** (M. says Ethiopians like to
see it swimming on top)

This is an Ethiopian recipe for a very hot (key words here are hot, toasty,
spicy) sort of stewlike stuff. I am posting it in reference to recent
discussion on injira, the spongey millet bread upon which wot is eaten.
This recipe comes via my Mom who obtained it directly from a foreign
student who used to live with us, who is an awesome cook, BTW. This is a
chicken version, it can be made with other meats.

Cook onion over low heat, not in any fat, for a long time, stirring
constantly over very low heat until all the water is evaporated. Continue
stirring until onions are slightly brown. THEN add the butter; cook about
1520 minutes still over low heat.

Add 1 tbsp hot water from time to time (texture should be kind of pasty).

Add bere bere. If it looks too dry, add hot water and stir. Cook it about
3045 minutes keep stirring frequently. Keep adding hot water if
necessary.

Be careful not to let it brown, because chili powder will become bitter.
Add garlic and ginger and simmer 15 more minutes. Add water as needed.

Meanwhile, with your other set of free hands, wash chicken pieces well, and
let stand in salted in lemoned water. Then squeeze each piece really hard
to get out as much water as possible. Then, make little slits in the meat
so the sauce will penetrate.

Cook the meat in the sauce until meat is tender, about 30 minutes. Stir
from time to time. All this has been uncovered, by the way. Add spices to
taste just before removing from stove. Add 1 hardboiled egg per person,
which have been slit (the eggs, not the people), and cook just long enough
to heat through.

Serve with lots of bread (injera).

Freezes well.

Betty Lise Anderson Ohio State University Electrical Engineering Department
Room 204 Dreese Labs, 2015 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210

Recipe By : anderson@jete.eng.ohiostate.edu (Bettylise Anderson)

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