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Atakilt wat: Ethiopian cabbage, carrot & potato stew

Atakilt wat (a.k.a., atakilt alicha, ye’atakilt wot, etc.) is another one of my favorite Ethiopian dishes, made of humble vegetables: cabbage, potatoes, carrots and onions. Even though it’s rather mild, it’s still quite tasty.

Ethiopian cabbage et al. stew on injera

If you have a large enough pot, it’s easy to double this recipe.

If you can find the spiced clarified butter nitr qibe (a.k.a., nitter kibbeh), do use it, as it adds a more flavorful dimension to this dish. But a vegetable oil, or ghee, will suffice.

Another variation uses green string beans instead of cabbage, which is also yummy. Hmmm, since the zucchini are coming in now, I wonder how they’d work here…

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup nitr qibe, ghee, or canola oil, or a mix thereof.
  • 1 large onion, diced into 1/2 to 1 inch pieces
  • 2 to 3 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1/2 to 3/4 inch of ginger root, grated
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 pound round cabbage (about half a head), cut into 1 to 2 inch chunks
  • 3/4 pound boiling-style potatoes (Yukon Golds are fine), peeled and cut into 1 inch chunks
  • 3/4 pound carrots, cut into 1 to 2 inch chunks
  • salt, to taste

Method

  1. Heat the nitr qibe or oil in a large pot over high heat. Sauté the onion until translucent, about 10 minutes.
  2. Add the garlic and ginger, and stir for a minute or two until fragrant.
  3. Stir in the turmeric, tomato paste, cabbage, potatoes, carrots and salt. Cover, lower heat to medium-low, and cook until the thick vegetables have become tender, about 20 to 30 minutes. Stir every 5 to 10 minutes so that bits don’t stick and burn at the bottom of the pot.
  4. Adjust salt levels, if desired. Serve with basmati rice, or a flatbread like injera.

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2 comments

  1. Monica wrote:

    Your injera looks FANTASTIC! Would you be willing to share how you make it?! :o )

    Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 3:23 pm | Permalink
  2. sairuh wrote:

    Hi Monica,

    Alas, I had bought the injera from an Ethiopian grocery store!

    Tuesday, 24 May 2011 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

3 Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. Unfoodie « The Wellness Bitch on Sunday, 6 February 2011 at 3:32 am

    [...] many uses of cabbage. Shredded cabbage salad. Sauteed cabbage with onions, tomato, and garlic. And this dish I used to love to get from my local Ethiopian restaurant in South Orange, NJ.  I suddenly [...]

  2. [...] many uses of cabbage. Shredded cabbage salad. Sauteed cabbage with onions, tomato, and garlic. And this dish I used to love to get from my local Ethiopian restaurant in South Orange, NJ.  I suddenly [...]

  3. Ethiopian trio: mesir wat, atakilt wat and bamya alich’a on Saturday, 1 October 2011 at 10:36 am

    [...] Iwaruna.com has a good recipe; being more of a potato fan than carrot, I changed the original 1:1 ratio to be 1 pound potato and 1/2 pound carrot, and found this to be a happy balance. [...]

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