Ethiopian Garlic Recipes

Ethiopian cooking is ancient and intensely spiced — slow-simmered stews built on berbere and aromatic spiced butter, scooped up with sour injera. When Ethiopian cooks work with garlic, they reach for berbere, niter kibbeh (spiced butter), garlic, ginger and fenugreek, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, boiling, sautéing and frying.

The aromatic foundation of savoury cooking almost everywhere — pungent raw, sweet and mellow when cooked. In this collection it's most often cooked with onion, berbere spice blend, fine sea salt, injera, fresh ginger and berbere. The dishes here span ethiopian classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Niter Kibbeh is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 2,340 ratings.