Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, berbere spiced lentil stew (misir wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Try This Ethiopian Inspired Seasoning Blend On Grilled Meats and In Hearty Stews Misir wat starts with onions that are slowly caramelized in niter kibbeh, Ethiopia's popluar and incredibly flavorful spiced clarified butter. Garlic and tomato paste are added. The comes a generous dose of berbere, Ethiopia's famous chili seasoning blend.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook berbere spiced lentil stew (misir wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳 using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Berbere spiced lentil stew (Misir Wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳:
- Take 2 cups red lentils
- Make ready 1 thumb of ginger
- Get 1 onion
- Get 2 tablespoons berbere spice
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Take 3 fresh tomatoes (or a tin of plum tomatoes
- Get 2 handfuls Spinach
- Prepare A few mint leaves
- Prepare 1 squeeze lemon
- Make ready to taste Salt and pepper
If you go to an Ethiopian restaurant you should find something on the menu that looks something like this dish, but it would be called misir wat, and it. A wat or wet is an Ethiopian red stew that uses the red chilli-spice mix called berbere and spiced ghee called nit'r kibbeh, and begins with a rich onion base. It's best made a day ahead to. Misir Wot is a healthy, protein packed Ethiopian stew made with lentils, and a flavorful spice mix called Berbere.
Steps to make Berbere spiced lentil stew (Misir Wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳:
- Wash the lentils well and cook in plenty of water. Bring to the boil, skim the froth from the top (your lentils will be bitter if you don’t do this) and simmer for 10 minutes or until the lentils are soft.
- Chop the onions and grate the garlic and ginger. In a separate pan heat a little oil and cook until soft and a little sticky. Add the berebere spice and cook for a few minutes being careful that the spices don’t burn. You can add a little more oil or a splash of water if needed.
- Skin the tomatoes or add the tinned tomatoes and the spinach. Add the lentils and cook on a slow heat for another 15 minutes. I like to serve with rice, a few fresh mint leaves and a squeeze of lemon. You can also add any left over veg to this stew - potatoes and any greens work well.
- I served with rice but it goes well with a fermented flatbread.
This EASY Instant Pot recipe is quick to make and served with rice makes a complete meal. I enjoyed the meal so much that when I got home I did some research about the most popular plant-based Ethiopian foods. Misir Wat was the first to appear. It is a spicy red lentil stew that often includes carrot and/or tomatoes. Laced with berbere spice and Niter kibbeh.
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