ETHIOPIAN DABO KOLO

Season 1 Episode 22

Hello, welcome to another episode of Learn Africa, today we’d be looking at the Ethiopian Dabo Kolo and Tej which is a snack and drink respectively.

Dabo Kolo (Little Fried Snack)

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons of honey
• ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (chili pepper)
• ¼ vegetable oil

Procedure

• Add the all-purpose flour into a bowl and add water slowly while stirring
• Add salt, honey, cayenne pepper and vegetable oil into the bowl and continue stirring till it forms a stiff dough
• Mix the dough thoroughly on a clean board for some minutes. Turn the dough by folding into different shapes and sizes
• Use a rolling pin to roll out the dough, cut into pieces and take out squares of the dough
• Fry the pieces inside a frying pan

Tej (Ethiopian Honey Wine)

Ingredients

• Honey
• Water
• Gesho (Rhamnus prinoides) or Hops
• Yeast
• Boiling pot
• Bucket

Procedure

• Put water into a boiling pot, dilute the honey inside the water and boil for a little while
• Boil the hops separately inside a pot of water for a couple of minutes
• After boiling the hops and honey separately, mix the contents inside a bucket and add a little amount of yeast and cover with a white linen to allow fermentation process to occur for some days
• Stir the mixture at least twice daily during the process of fermentation
• After the process of fermentation has occurred, sieve the mixture with a clean cotton cloth, add small boiled water and let it cool down
• You can decide to add some quantity of white wine

Edited by Ebenezer Oladokun