Food of Ethiopia

Spicy chicken stew with slow-cooked onions, berbere and boiled egg.

Beef stew cooked in a deep-red berbere sauce.

Mild yellow stew of meat or vegetables with turmeric and ginger.

Smooth stew of ground chickpeas simmered with onion, garlic and berbere.

Finely minced beef with mitmita and spiced butter, served warm.

Sauteed cubes of beef or lamb with onion, rosemary and green chili.

Cubes of lean beef in awaze sauce, seared or served rare.

Spicy red lentil stew in berbere sauce.

Mild yellow split pea stew with turmeric and garlic.

Collard greens simmered with onion, garlic and ginger.

Cabbage, potatoes and carrots stewed with turmeric.

Mixed vegetarian platter with an assortment of stews on injera.

Finely chopped tripe, liver and lean beef sauteed with spices and chili.

Fermented flatbread from the enset (false banana) plant, popular in the south.

Mashed fava beans with onion, tomato, chili and olive oil.

Pan-fried flatbread pieces tossed in spiced butter and berbere.

Thick barley or wheat porridge with a well of butter and berbere in the center.

Shredded injera tossed in spicy sauce, often with dried meat or eggs.

Crunchy bite-size baked bread pieces seasoned with berbere.

Crisp triangular pastry filled with lentils or spiced beef.

Roasted barley and peanut snack eaten with coffee.

Soft fried doughnuts dusted with sugar, a coffee-time treat.

Light vegetable or lentil soup, sometimes with bits of meat.

Fresh tomato, onion and jalapeno salad dressed with lemon and oil.

Cold lentil salad with mustard, lemon and green chili.

Fermented teff flatbread that is both plate and utensil.

Round honey-sweet or plain Ethiopian bread, baked in a clay oven.

Lightly sweet decorated bread with cardamom, often shared with family.

Moist cake sweetened with local honey.

Sweet sesame confection enjoyed with coffee.

Roasted fresh and brewed in a clay jebena for a fragrant cup, served in three rounds.

Layered tea and coffee drink popular in cafes.

Honey and ginger steeped and served chilled.

Black tea simmered with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.

Thick, layered fruit juice of avocado, mango and papaya.

Creamy fruit eaten in slices or juices.

Juicy sweet fruit of the lowlands.

Soft orange-fleshed fruit for breakfast or smoothies.

Banana is a well-loved fruit or crop in Ethiopia, eaten fresh or used in juices, snacks and home cooking.

Red coffee fruit, the origin of the world's coffee beans.

Cactus fruit known locally as beles.