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Description: Recipe for the Ethiopian flatbread.
From: [email protected] (Gayle Koszegi) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Someone requested a recipe for injera. I found this recipe in the Lassen Family Natural Foods newsletter of August 1993; I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like fun. Judging from the source, I would guess that you can find the main ingredient in health food stores. Text and recipe copied/paraphrased without permission. Teff is the staple grain of Ethiopia. The grain yields a seed much smaller than the size of a wheat grain, but is the basis of Ethiopian traditional cookery. Teff flour is the main ingredient of the pleasantly sour pancakelike bread known as injera, which literally underlies every Ethiopian meal. To set an Ethiopian table, one lays down a circular injera on top of which the other food is arrayed, directly, without any plate. Other injeras are served on the side and torn into pieces to be used as grabbers for the food on the "tablecloth" injera. Eventually, after the meal is finished, you eat the tablecloth, a delicious repository of the juices from the food that has been resting on it. Nutrition-minded Americans have turned to teff as a source of calcium, fiber, and protein. It is also an alternative grain for people allergic to the gluten in wheat. It has an appealing, sweet, molasses-like flavor, and it boils up into a gelatinous porridge. INJERA Ingredients: 3/4 cup teff, ground fine (this may be done either in a flour mill or in a blender after moistening in 3 1/2 cups water) salt sunflower or other vegetable oil 1. Mix ground teff with 3 1/2 cups water and let stand in a bowl covered with a dish towel, at room temperature, until it bubbles and has turned sour. This may take as long as 3 days. The fermenting mixture should be the consistency of pancake batter (which is exactly what it is). 2. Stir in salt, a little at a time, until you can barely detect the taste. 3. Lightly oil an 8- or 9-inch skillet (or a larger one if you like). Heat over medium heat. Then proceed as you would wit
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