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Beg Alicha

Ethiopia

What we know so far

Beg alicha is the gentle side of Ethiopian lamb cooking. Where key beg wot is red with berbere, alicha is yellow with turmeric and mild, built on slowly softened onion, niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter), garlic, ginger and korerima (Ethiopian cardamom), with a green chilli or two added at the end for the people who want heat. It is a holiday dish, cooked at Christmas (Genna) and Easter (Fasika) when the fast ends and a sheep is slaughtered, and it is eaten with injera.

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 12 ingredients and 8 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

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Waiting for a cook

Beg Alicha

Ethiopia

What we know so far

The draft was written from 2 published sources and holds 12 ingredients and 8 steps. It has never been cooked by anybody at AFN, which is why it is waiting.

What claiming it means

Cook it the way you actually make it. Change anything in our draft that is wrong, and most of it probably is.
Photograph your own, so the page carries a real picture instead of somebody else's.
Send it in. An editor reads it, and it publishes with your name on it and a link to your profile.

See every dish waiting