Doro Wot (Chicken
Stew): A sweet/spicy/savory Ethiopian dish served with injera, naturally.
This dish is made exclusively for special occasions due to the tedious
preparation process and the expensiveness of chicken. Yours truly got to be a
part of the preparation process- here is a sneak peak…
How to prepare Doro
(accompanied with the American equivalent):
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- Wait for the weekly market to come around, and then buy a chicken from the market (decide you’re in the mood for chicken and dread the effort required to satisfy yourself)
- - Find a man to sharpen the knives and slice the neck of your chicken (drive to your local grocery store)
- - This is where the women take over- Throw a box over the chicken as it finishes doing that being alive thing. Next, put the chicken in a tub and pour boiling water over it (go to the poultry section of your store)
- - Pluck all of the feathers off every part of the chicken (get annoyed when there isn’t an employee around to help you find the location of meat section of the store)
- - Continue to pour boiling water on the chicken as needed to remove all feathers (on the way to the meat section of the store, you get distracted and start comparing toilet paper prices- at this moment you decide you need a super-value-double-count-extra-bonus-industrial pack….will all of this toilet paper be used before your 87th birthday? Who knows…?)
- - Briefly put the chicken in the fire to burn off the really small feathers (finally pick the cut of chicken you’d like)
- - Rub chickpea flour, aka, chicken soap, in every crevice. This helps to remove very small feathers. (decide the preparation of chicken takes too long and proceed on a quest to find rotisserie chicken)
- - Rinse off the chicken soap and remove the chicken clothes or, as some would say, the skin (spend 9 minutes deciding between garlic herb roasted chicken and honey herb roasted chicken)
- - Cut up the chicken and separate the organs- almost every part of the chicken gets eaten (go to the check-out line and purchase your garlic herb rotisserie chicken, maybe also a pack of gum if you happen to fall victim to American marketing techniques)
- - Aggressively wash the chicken parts in buckets of water and salt in order to remove all of the blood. (get a receipt for your chicken)
- - Prepare the doro wot! (drive home)
These pics are soo good Marianna, especially the one in which you are holding chicken :D Haha Hope you are having a great time in Ethiopia. TC !!
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