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Food & Drinks in Amharic: Basics of Ethiopian Food
Food is a huge part of Ethiopia’s culture and one of the most commonly known features of Ethiopia/Ethiopian society. Already having basic food vocabulary for vegetables, snacks, and popular Ethiopian dishes can be quite helpful when going out for Ethiopian food for the first time.
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Eating Ethiopian-style means rethinking many assumptions you might have about dinnertime – for most of us this means starting with eschewing cutlery and being ready to get messy fingers.
That’s because the foundation of the vast majority of Ethiopian meals is injera, a giant gray spongey pancake-like bread, upon whose strangely rubbery surface are served a vast array of foods, ranging from multicolored mounds of spicy stews to vegetable curries to cubes of raw meat.