Wat is a type of dish here. Essentially
a one pot meal with a base of onions, garlic, burbere, and oil whose
extra ingredients change: lentils, meat, chickpea powder, potatoes,
tomatoes.
Doro wat though is special – it's
only eaten for holidays. And fancy dancy important meals. But
regardless, it's a rare dish. Doro means chicken.
It's the common wat base, onions,
garlic, oil, burbere with a whole chicken and usually about a dozen
hard boiled eggs thrown in. Depending on who makes it, it can be
very oily, or very spicy. It's sometimes mixed with the local
variant of cheese.
I guess I just get a kick out of
chicken being the holiday, and most expensive, meat. Chicken was a
cheap, biweekly meal in the states. Here, you can go to a fancy
hotel and either get a meat stir-fry for 30 bir or doro wat for 70.
1 comments:
It sounds delicious, especially the spicy version. I remember when I was a kid in the UK in the 1950s a chicken was expensive and something we only had for special occasions. I suspect that, sadly, things have changed here because of the cruel intensive way that these poor birds are farmed. I could so easily become a vegetarian!
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