Name: Spiced chickpea powder and chickpea stew
Yield: Makes 5 kg (11 lb 6 oz) powder / Stew serves 2
Cuisine: Ethiopian
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon minced garlic; ½ onion, diced; 2 kg (4 lb 8 oz) chickpeas, dried and peeled; 600 g (1 lb 5 oz) dried chillies; 2 kg (4 lb 8 oz) peeled yellow split peas; 100 g (3½ oz) dried garlic; 100 g (3½ oz) dried ginger; 100 g (3½ oz) dry onion; 150 g (5½ oz) rock salt; 40 g (1½ oz) dried basil; 50 g (1¾ oz) cardamom seeds; 50 g (1¾ oz) rue seeds; Injera, to serve; ½ teaspoon salt; sunflower oil, for cooking; 1 cup (120 g) Shiro powder

Preparation info

Makes 5 kg powder / Stew serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Tekebash & Saba

By Saba Alemayoh

Published 2023

About

The average Tigraweyti family would have shiro daily: it was cheap and accessible. However, the flavours within it are nothing to snub your nose over – it’s absolutely delicious. In the eighties and nineties, Tigray and Ethiopia as a whole was devastated by the HIV epidemic and there were advertisements everywhere for condoms and the prevention of HIV. Most older folks had no grasp on what it was, but all were scared of the devastating effects.

One day my cousin asked my aunt what’s