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Ethiopian Food: Part 3, The Drinks

Ethiopian Coffee - The Macchiato

It made me start drinking coffee. It’s delish.

The best juice I have ever had

The juice in Ethiopia is to die for. The above juice is the Sprice or mixed juice and is a particularly large one from New York cafe from Bole Olympia, Addis Ababa, in case you wanna make the trip. Sprice juice tends to be mango, papaya, pineapple, guava, avocado and orange juice. It’s incredible and if you were to try and make it in Ireland you would have to remortgage the gaff in order to afford all the tropical fruit. In Ethiopia it cost cents.

Saint George - My new favourite beer

Saint George, the Ethiopian beer is seriously, seriously good. Seriously. You’d like it.

Special Tea

I heart special tea so much. As far as I could figure out it is hot orange and pineapple juice with honey and can include Tej which is a honey mead. It is the best thing I’ve ever had for a cold. I was a bit run down on my return to our fair isle and I spent my first week downing hot orange juice mixedwith honey. It’s still pretty good and is a great alternative to a hot whiskey.

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Ethiopian Food, Part Two: Fasting Food

Members of the Ethiopian orthodox church fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. On fasting days people don’t eat meat or dairy. Speaking of dairy. This is how milk comes in Ethiopia. It was odd to request a bag of milk from the local shop.

Bag O' Milk

Fasting food is typically a mixture of vegetables such as carrots, green beans, lentils, a sauce made fr0m chickpeas, tomato, a tomato sauce, potato, beetroot. It varies from place to place. Here are a few examples.

Rosa and Mikiyas Enjoying Fasting Food in Ethiopia

Fasting Food in Lalibela

Mikiyas is the Training Director at Camara Ethiopia and took absolutely fantastic care of us. He even invited us to his home for a traditional Ethiopian feast prepared by his wife. It was absolutely fantastic and she prepared a mountain of food for us. Notice the mixed Njera and the brown njera. You roll them onto your plate, serve the other food on top of it, then tear off a piece and use it to eat the rest of the food…all with your right hand.