Recipe of Homemade Berbere spiced lentil stew (Misir Wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳

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Misir Wat (also Misir Wot) is one such example of a dish that truly excels in the vegetarian realm. A dish featuring red lentils, an abundantly available crop, Misir Wat is a staple dish throughout Ethiopia and one of the most popular vegetarian dishes in Ethiopian restaurants. Buy us a cup of coffee. Thank you all so much for watching our recipe videos and supporting our channel.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have berbere spiced lentil stew (misir wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳 using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Berbere spiced lentil stew (Misir Wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳:

1. Make ready 2 cups red lentils
2. Make ready 1 thumb of ginger
3. Make ready 1 onion
4. Take 2 tablespoons berbere spice
5. Make ready 3 cloves garlic
6. Prepare 3 fresh tomatoes (or a tin of plum tomatoes
7. Get 2 handfuls Spinach
8. Make ready A few mint leaves
9. Take 1 squeeze lemon
10. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper

Wat or Wot is an Ethiopian style stew or curry that you can I cook this stew using red lentils in ghee and season it with the 'Berbere' Ethiopian spice blend. The small lentils (variously called red lentils, pink lentils, Egyptian lentils, and, in South Asia, masoor dal) used for this dish turn yellow when cooked. The recipe for this version comes from an Ethiopean cook, Alemtshaye Yigezu, who cooked this dish for us while visiting her home. Misir Wot is an Ethiopian stew dish with red lentils & aromatic berbere spice.

Instructions to make Berbere spiced lentil stew (Misir Wat) 🌱🌍🌶🌳:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I served with rice but it goes well with a fermented flatbread.

The recipe for this version comes from an Ethiopean cook, Alemtshaye Yigezu, who cooked this dish for us while visiting her home. Misir Wot is an Ethiopian stew dish with red lentils & aromatic berbere spice. A disclaimer here before I share the recipe, this is my quick and EASY version of the Ethiopian Misir Wot or Wat. I use oil or ghee to make this recipe instead of the traditional Niter Kibbeh which is the Ethiopian spiced. Berbere' Spice Mix: Mix all the spices together and store in a cool dark place.

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