Doro Alicha

The dish that everyone who eats Ethiopian food will know is Doro Wat -- spiced chicken.  But I am a wimp - way too spicy for me.  So today I give Doro Alicha.

You start with these ingredients:

Ignore the anaheim pepper.  I did not use it for this recipe.  I used it in something else.

Start out by soaking the chicken in lime water.  Sounds gross but it works.  I have issues with raw chicken.  I soaked for 24 hours. The recipe calls for using a whole chicken that you cut up.  I used breast only and cut into bite size pieces.

When you are ready to start cooking -- onions again.

And then add the butter.

And the spices.

Then add the chicken.  Which I apparently did not photograph.  The recipe then call for adding water and simmering it down.  I always the water.  And I always regret it.  Maybe a little is good but I always add too much. 

And this is what I ended up with to put in my freezer.

If you want to turn it into a Wat dish -- add berbere.  The recipe calls for 1 cup -- I am a wimp and would do about 1/4 cup.  Also add Bishops weed and cardamom.  The recipe also calls for hard boiled eggs but they don't freeze well so I didn't add them.

And now that I am done cooking Ethiopian food the house smells like Ethiopian food all the time.  I love the smell -- but after 6 days I am getting sick of it (and so is Ladybug).

Mean Mama