Content

• Ingredients
• Steps
• Tips
• What do you need

Yjera is also known as Ethiopian bread. This is the national dish in Ethiopia. Made with teff flour and water, this bread has a pleasant crumbly texture. This bread is delicious on its own, but most often in Ethiopia it is served as an addition to other dishes. They can also collect the sauce from the plate at the end of the meal.

Ingredients

• 1 cup teff flour
• 1 1/2 cups warm water (not hot)
• A pinch of salt
• Sourdough (optional)
• Frying oil

Steps

1. 1 Sift flour into a bowl. Add water and salt. Stir.
2. 2 If you are using a starter, add it now. Stir.
3. 3 Leave the dough in a warm place for 12 hours, covering the bowl with a clean kitchen towel.
4. 4 Take a clean frying pan, preheat it. Pour in the oil so that it covers the bottom of the pan, but not too much. Tilt the pan in different directions until the oil covers the bottom.
5. 5 Using a ladle, pour some of the dough into the pan. While pouring the dough, do it in a spiraling motion starting from the center of the pan, then turn the spirals up to cover the bottom of the dough. Take as much dough as if you were making pancakes, maybe a little more.
6. 6 Leave the tortilla to roast. As soon as you see holes on the surface of the yngera, the bread can be removed from the heat. Also, the finished cake should lift up at the edges and turn golden brown.
7. 7 Repeat the process until you have used all the dough.
8. 8 Serve hot.
9. 9 Bon Appetit!

Tips

• Add honey to the dough before toasting the bread if you want to sweeten it.
• Do not hurry; To make good Injera bread, you need to be patient.
• After removing the last bread from the pan, add baking soda to it. This will make it much easier to empty the pan.
• Teff flour can be expensive. If you don't want to spend a lot of money, you can buy some teff flour and dilute it with 1/4 cup teff flour and 3/4 cup regular wheat flour. If you can't find teff flour in stores at all, use only wheat flour. The dish won't taste the same, but it will work too.
• Kefir is suitable as a leaven. You can also make a starter with 1 teaspoon of white yogurt and a pinch of yeast.
• Ready-made yngera bread can be kept warm on a plate, which you put in a warm (not hot!) Oven until serving.

What do you need

• Bowl for kneading dough
• Wooden spoon
• A clean kitchen or other towel to cover the bowl
• Frying pan or pancake pan
• Wooden spatula for removing bread from the pan
• A plate where you can put ready-made tortillas or portioned plates