Ethiopian Berbere Cabbage - Atakilt Wat
Ethiopia
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
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Abuja, Nigeria ·
Atakilt wat is the vegetable stew of the Ethiopian table: cabbage, carrot and potato cooked down with onion, garlic and spice until they are tender without collapsing. The name is Amharic, atakilt for vegetable and wat for stew, which describes it exactly. Its place is on the shared injera platter rather than on a plate of its own. An Ethiopian meal is served as several dishes arranged together on a single round of injera, and atakilt wat is almost always among them, providing a mild, sweet counterweight to the sharper and hotter wat alongside it. It is the dish that gives the platter its balance. That role also makes it central to fasting. The Ethiopian Orthodox calendar includes many days on which no animal products are eaten, and the country's vegan cooking is consequently deep and long practised rather than recent. Atakilt wat contains nothing animal at any point, which is why it appears as reliably during fasting periods as outside them. Berbere, the chilli and spice blend built on chilli, garlic, ginger, fenugreek and a long list of aromatics, is what carries it, though this version keeps the quantity modest so the vegetables stay forward.
Atakilt wat takes its name from the Amharic atakilt, meaning vegetable, and wat, meaning stew. It belongs to the body of Ethiopian dishes containing no animal products, which developed in the context of the Ethiopian Orthodox fasting calendar and its many days of abstention from meat and dairy.
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Heat the olive oil in a pan.
Add the chopped onion and minced garlic and fry until the onion is translucent and fragrant.
Add the berbere, turmeric and ginger powder and stir well to coat the onion and garlic.
Add the shredded cabbage, sliced carrots and potatoes. Stir to combine with the spice mixture, cover, and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes until the vegetables are tender but still have some bite.
Salt to taste and stir occasionally so nothing sticks.
Add water only if you want a looser stew. Left dry the vegetables stay crisper.
Serve hot as a side dish, or with injera for a complete meal.
Notes personnelles de Deborah Olayiwola4 avis
Made this yesterday afternoon. The turmeric gave the potatoes such a lovely yellow colour sha. My only small issue is that my small yellow potatoes took longer than 15 mins to soften up, so I had to cover the pan for another 8 minutes and the cabbage lost a bit of its bite. Next time I will cut the potatoes smaller before adding them to the oil o. But the heat from the berbere spice e sweet well well!
picked up some fresh berbere at the shop near Seven Sisters station just to try this. In my opinion, traditional atakilt wat usually relies mostly on turmeric for that bright yellow color rather than a whole tablespoon of berbere which made mine quite reddish! But chale, it was still very tasty. The ground cumin and ginger powder gave the carrots such a nice aroma while simmering.
herh, cabbage can release so much water when you cover the pan oo. Do you cut your cabbage thick or thin for this? When I fried the onions and garlic with the ginger and turmeric first, the oil smelled amazing in the kitchen, but I want to make sure my cabbage does not end up soggy when I make it tomorrow.
Ah, this smells just like the dish my old habesha roommate used to make for us! I could not find berbere at my local Safeway here in Silver Spring so I had to run to the Ethiopian store on Georgia Ave. I was worried the cabbage would get soft like when I make pondu, but keeping it simmered for just 12 minutes left the potatoes cooked through and the cabbage with a good crunch. Delicious with injera or even fufu on a cold night.