African Feast

Berbere is the key to authentic African cooking.

It consists of garlic, red pepper, cardamom, coriander, chilli, cloves & various other spices - cayenne pepper is often used as a substitute, but here is the real thing:

Dabo Kolo is an Ethiopian snack, meaning something like "popcorn bread."

It can be pretty spicy, depending on how much berbere or cayenne pepper is used.
Addictive too:

Injera is the national dish of Ethiopia.

It took 2 days to prepare: the dough had to be left to rest, rise & ferment, to give it its 

sour taste & spongy texture.

It was made somehow without the main ingredient (teff flour, not available in Sweden) 

but it tasted & looked pretty cool:

This is the dreaded ugali, the bane of my existence in Africa.

It's all over the East, & South Africa where it's called pap.

Made from maize flour, cooked with water till it has a dough-like consistency - very starchy & tasteless, wasted carbs & almost no nutritional value.

Thankfully you can't get maize here either but unfortunately corn flour was found
to be a substitute.

At least we didn't have to make the spinach crap with it:

The bottom pot is my vegetable lentil stew - not bad that I made 2/6 dishes,
Dabo Kolo was mine too.

This was a Kenyan recipe, with the berbere playing a starring role yet again:

The other pot is Doro Wat, the classic Ethiopian spicy chicken stew.

It's also made with berbere, & niter kibbeh (spiced clarified butter).

Eaten with injera, you break off small pieces of it with your right hand off & use the injera to scoop up the stew, with the injera soaking up all the juices & flavour.

So in this way, injera is food, cutlery & plate at the same time:

The traditional way of eating ugali is to roll a lump of it into a ball with your right hand 

& dip it into stew/sauce. 

Or you can press into it with your thumb & use it as a scoop, or to fold into it pieces of meat/stew.

It looks like crap / very authentic:

Roasted Ethiopian coffee & sweet potato muffin:

If African meals were 3 courses, 7 dishes, cocktails, wine & coffee,
it would look something like this!