How To Make Spicy Ethiopian Chicken Stew: Doro Wat

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[fylliswilliams]

My husband was from Ethiopia and I was taught how to make Doro Wat over 40-years ago by my sister-in-law and several family friends. Yes, sometimes there would be 8 or 10 women in my kitchen dicing onions and cutting up chicken and cooking injera. We always had a house FULL of people; especially when someone would bring 'the spice' back from Ethiopia. I have watched several videos of others making this stew and this is by far the best! I love how she stressed the importance of cooking the onions properly to a deep brown, and that making Doro Wat IS a long process that cannot be accomplished in 30-minutes! Even the injera can take 4-5 days to make because of the fermentation time. So, if you want injera with your dish, think ahead! My mouth is watering right now and I do believe I am going to make a big pot full of Doro Wat today. I absolutely LOVE this stuff!

[sesambarokaro]

I had a female coworker who was from Ethiopia and we worked long hours as caretakers. After a while she found out that i am an Orthodox Christian like her, alhough she belongs to to the Ethiopian tewahedo church and i to the Serbian orthodox, the similarities are bigger than the differences. She was so happy to meet a person in Sweden, who wasnt Ethiopian and also Orthodox. And from that day we always celebrate Pascha, The Nativity, and other big feasts after fasting, together with our families. Doro Wat and Kitfo has become my absolute favorite dishes out of everything Ive ever tried in my life after being literally fed by her hundreds of times at work, and at festivities. This is also the only clip showing how to make Doro Wat, that she approves and considers authentic😄

[kit]

Man!, she went from having the only Ethiopian food truck in NYC to having a restaurant? God bless her!

[jinjilittle]

I only ever ate doro wat in my home country, in east africa, my neighbours would make it on occasion and i would just invite myself (in my defence, i was a child) and inhale several plates of the stuff. When i didn’t come by myself, their eldest daughter would bring it for me and those are honestly some of my fondest memories.

[abdul-azizaaa]

I love Ethiopia 🇪🇹. Been there twice cannot wait to visit it again. The food, weather, history, authenticity. The whole country is fascinating. Love from Germany 🇩🇪

[maheenahmed]

I’m Pakistani and we always have homemade garlic ginger paste. You can buy it, but it’s so easy to make it and it’s better. It’s such an underrated but amazing ingredient. This dish looks absolutely amazing and it reminds me of many of the dishes we eat. Also, eating with hands! I am telling you, food rates better that way. And you less dishes to do

[domingopartida]

I use to work in an Ethiopian restaurant and this brings back memories, the smells and taste of this and other dishes are amazing. I remember they clarified butter with herbs in it, but don’t remember which herbs. I made talapia and lamb tibs, and trimmed the lamb and beef. It was a neat cultural exposure to say the least.

[secretminimalists]

Love the fact she has put the ingredients on her T-shirt. That’s commitment there for you.

[KingofNorway]

The fact that I never forgot about this delicious dish says it all, and I’ve tried a lot of different food from all around the world, the story is quite random: many years ago I flew from my country Norway to Warsaw Poland to visit some friends studying there and ended up in a Ethiopian restaurant around 5 am after drinking all night, one of the people we met invited us for after party to his Ethiopian restaurant and made us Doro Wat, a heavenly dish!
Warsaw has restaurants from literally every country in the world
I LOVE FOOD ✌🏻

[ellenspear]

First time I ate at an Ethiopian restaurant, the scent of cooking just knocked me out. And it proved to be delicious and fun to eat. Also, the beautiful woven basket-like tables were interesting.

[lidz]

The way she washed that chicken made me hear my ancestors 🙏🏾

[MelvisVelour]

I spent part of my childhood in Ethiopia and we always had this for dinner, especially in the winter which can get really cold. I vaguely remember someone telling me that the chicken had to be in 12 pieces for the 12 apostles but I was never sure if this was true but, a perfect dish to enjoy with the people you love!

[tonygunz]

I've never had "authentic" Doro Wat, but discovered a video recipe several years back and have made it many times since. It is so good when I make it, I can only imagine how good it would be from an actual Ethiopian restaurant or cooked by someone from Ethiopia. You will have to tend to the onions pretty frequently, and the smell of those onions cooking will be throughout your house for the day, but it's more than worth it. By no means am I the authority on Doro Wat, but I can tell Ms. Eden's is fire! Looks so good!

[AbcDef-mofq]

I am South African and make this all the time for my Ethiopian husband ... My favourite dish

[RxvenAlexis]

My neighbors are Eritrean and South African and their church has these different cuisine dinners over the summer and doro wat and shiro wat stew are my absolute favorite. My mouth was watering the whole time watching this 🤤😭😭 I haven’t had it so long due to the pandemic, I miss it so much.

[observer]

Proud to be Ethiopian! When my students ask me, I always tell them that Doro-Wät is my favourite Ethiopian dish. መልካም በዓል በያላችሁበት !!

[klawiehr]

I saw a tweet a while ago that said "If your dish don't have that red-orange oil pooling around the edges, it don't slap"

[abc_cba]

If there's one food Indians would love beyond their own cuisines, then it's handsdown the Ethiopian cuisine. I can bet on that !

Spices, gravies, fire, roasts, God please, don't make me drool.
Best wishes from India 🇮🇳

[coolkerny]

My father worked in Ethiopia in 2007 and 2008 when I was 11. I have fond memories of my summers there. Warm people, warm culture and some incredibly tasty food. Doro Wat and Missar Wat with some injera and lamb tibbs was a weekend special.

[sitandchill]

Ethiopian food is amazing! I had it when I loved in Osaka for a few years. Doro Wat and Injera is soo good! Ethiopian friends, please open restaurants and cafes in Manila, Philippines! 🤤😍