I need a recipe for Gomen Wat.?!
I need a recipe for Gomen Wat.?
Ok I need a real authentic recipe for Gomen Wat. I usually eat this a Addis Red Sea restaurant in Boston. They use some kind of spiced butter in it that I cant figure out.
Answers:
I am a former chef from Canada and cook alot of Ethiopian dishes, I like the spice and heat and eat alot of veggie dishes, the sauce is made with a spiced butter available at Etiopian grocery store, and the spice mix called berbere, I just got some more in Tornot Canada were I live.
If you cannot find the butter, just melt some regular butter in a sauce pan and add a bay leaf, garlic, peppercorns and if you have any Indian spices a few cardoman seed (broken) and red chilis, just let the warm butter soak up the spices, in fact let it get cold in the frig over night then re-warm the butter and strain out the spices.
For the Wat, I buy powdered berbere, it is available in some fine food shops, but I know from answering other question from people in the Boston area, in Cambridge there is an African food store, check the Yellow Pages, give them a call and ask if they stock Etiopian spices, you may find they have the paste which is the spice and butter together, but if not the spice blend in powder form and your own spice butter is fine, then just make it like a stew, I do mine in a crockpot, saute the spices and butter, add it to my crockpot, then the rest of the ingredients and the liquid,, let it slowly cook for the morning, turn it off and rewarm it in the evening, as it is a veg based wat, anything you like is fine, I add chickpeas for a starchy addition, but find the right combo for you and adjust the spice as you like also.