10:13 Americans do eat with their hands a lot, though they are not very aware of it. They use hands when eating bagels, tacos, burritos, sandwiches, hamburgers, hotdog, pizza, french fries, etc. And for fine dining, they use their hands most of the time when eating lobster or crab. And yes, eating with your hands make sense, but with clean hands of course!
yeah, I can understand not wanting to have messy hands as a texture aversion, like I'm autistic and I know a lot of us would have an incredibly hard time being comfortable with it, even though I'm actually fine with it most of the time. But otherwise I think it can be a reflection of closed mindedness, or even someones hygiene habits lol. someone who doesn't wash their hands very often would definitely be adverse to the idea of eating food with your hands.
@@AliceBunny05yeah I'm autistic too and I could never eat anything in my hands that would involve my hands getting saucy. Total respect to people and cultures who do this but it'd stress me out!
well, someone has to do the representing and if white people try its hard to get good sources and they often get trashed for cultural appropriation . . . I am all in fore more representation and less judgment!
If you can find a Native American restaurant that’s be great to see or aunt even reach out to a reservation. You highlighted Native American food before and it’d be awesome to see that again. It sad that there are so little places in this country to experience indigenous foods but you can get food from everywhere around the world. We just had a new Ojibwe restaurant open up on Madeline Island and it’s super exciting! I was even asked to paint a mural there which was great because the island is named after one of my ancestors.
@@Cantetinza17 I wish there were more Native American restaurants, too! But, even though I live in Oklahoma, the state with the most Native Americans, I don't know of any such restaurants!
One the few cuisines that the NY metro does not have (AFAIK... and I've looked, would love a correction) is Native. Nothing like the scene in Minneapolis for example. There are some places that focus on indigenous Central/South American ingredients and recipes though
Yes to a cabbage episode! I was just about to say it and decided this thread could be the petition. There's a great south Indian cabbage recipe that the world needs to know@@SingingSealRiana
Thank you to all the contributors. I have no idea what to order or how to order, but I love the food. I had an Ethiopian neighbor and her cooking always smelled good and one day she gave a taste, it was wonderful. Cheers.
Most (all?) restaurants have a combination meat which is 4 kinds of meat and a comb veggie which is 4+ kinds of veggies. For a group just order those two and you're set. You'll have roughly everything she ordered except the appetizers.
My first experience with Ethiopian food was from a group of refugee women. They opened a cafe in order to train women in hospitality and get into the workforce. They fed us so much, I had no idea what I was eating but the Doro wat was spectacular. I have been back many times over the years and the food brings a smile to my face.
Could you do an episode with how the world eats Semolina ?! Pretty please it's so versatile and yet underrated. Like in India we've upma, halva and so much more ❤
We love semolina in Ireland. We have it as a dessert, it's mixed with milk, sugar and vanilla, then topped with fresh or canned (preferably canned) peaches :)
I live in DC which has a large Ethiopian population, which means we have lots of Ethiopian restaurants. I always love introducing friends who visit to Ethiopian food-- they always love it. As I don't like things like sour dough bread, injera was an acquired taste for me at first, but then I learned to love it as it goes perfectly with the flavors of the food. However, as I don't eat beef, and certainly not raw, I've never had the kitfo. I absolutely love the whole fried fish, and I always order it. I also really enjoy all the vegetarian dishes. When I visited Ethiopia many years ago, it was in the spring during fasting season, so I really got a chance to sample all the various vegetarian foods. Yum. Glad you tried Ethiopian food and shared it with your audience.
our food is one of a kind, my friend from Jamaica, didn't like injera at first, but after that I would take her always she got used to it. Now she eats that all the time.😂😂 Welcome.
❤❤love this episode, I’m bias as an Ethiopian but I’ve never met anyone who dislikes our food. I’m vegan now and far more consciousness about a balanced nutritious diet, and let me tell y’all traditional Ethiopian vegan dishes are the best for this. Orthodox Christian are required to fast for a lot of the year, so we’ve been making these combinations for literally hundreds of years, basic ingredients (complex spice mix) highly nutritious especially teff. Always ask for teff ingera, the darker the injera the better for you, it can border on bitter, but when mixed with the veg 🎉🎉🎉
I am not a vegan but I respect that a lot! My go to at Ethiopian restaurants has always been kitfo and injera, with a nice side of atilkit wot as my veggies.
@@JinghisKhan this is an experienced palate - pro order! It’s giving regular customer, it’s giving I’m practical family now 😉so glad you found our beautiful food.
I love that there was so much vegetarian food in this one. Often I feel kind of alienated in these because there are so few dishes I can eat but this one was a wonder! Now I have to see where my nearest Ethiopian restaurant is.
Many years ago, there were two Ethiopian restaurants in my city and I have very fond memories of them both. Rarely have I had so much fun in such a beautiful atmosphere with some of the most amazing food I've ever eaten. I was quite a novice at the time and the staffs were very helpful and they were a big part of what made it such unique experience.
I think there are a lot of videos from Europe, the indigenous people of Europe have a lot of variaty. Most famouse are probably the French and Italian kitchen.
@@Johan_g Well, to be honest, with this suggestion, I was hoping that cultures whose cuisine and practices are less well known or are in need of preservation might get a spotlight. 😊
@@kumarvikramaditya9636 Indigenous literally means "originally occuring in or native to a particular place"... It has nothing to do with America. Edit to add: I would indeed love to see Native American cuisine featured, to be clear!
Hi Beryl! First time commenting on your channel, which I really appreciate! If you haven’t already done a segment on Persian food, I think your viewers would like it. In my experience, people who don’t know Persian cuisine assume that it’s spicy and probably challenging to eat. It isn’t. Some meat dishes, stews, rice dishes and some salads are at the core of Persian cuisine. It’s delicious and simple in its own way. Thank you.
Great choices! Whenever my friends and I go for Ethiopian, we always get a bottle of Ethiopian honey wine - tej. Not sure about alcohol delivery in your locality, but to me the tej is just as integral to the experience as the injera!
I'm so glad this video came up. Ethiopian restaurants started popping up about ten years ago. I always wanted to try it, but didn't know what to order. I feel a bit more comfortable now in trying things out.
I would love to see a Guyanese episode! I have Guyanese heritage but none of my family from that side are still alive so I really don’t know much about the food they would have loved. I feel like the community you have built would definitely have some ideas I’d love to learn, and you would be the perfect host for that Beryl!
Ethiopian food is genuinely my favorite cuisine. Any time I come across a new Ethiopian restaurant, I have to try it. Highly recommend giving it a chance!
There was a Ethiopian restaurant near where I used to live and I would always get at least one dish I'd never tried before when I ate there. I would ask my server for a recommendation and go with it. I loved their use of spices.
Oh man, I really want some Ethiopian food now. I fell in love with the cuisine when I was kid, because it was the only time I could eat with my hands without getting in trouble.
I've noticed that the people that are most vocal about eating with your hands seem to not mind appetizers, sandwiches, and pizza. Personally, I love eating with my hands.
I mind fried chicken but for me personally it's just a dislike of having stuff feeling sticky on my fingers so I either wipe them or lick them off approximately 400 times during a single meal, or I just feel very uncomfortable the entire time. Sandwiches, appetizers, and pizza are generally dry on the outside and don't get anything more than crumbs on you and those come off on their own. I'm totally OK eating with my hands if I have a bread barrier, like scooping curry with naan, for instance. But scooping the curry with my hands feels unpleasant and I'd rather not so once I run out of naan I revert to a fork or spoon.
I hate eating with my hands and never do it if I can avoid it. But here we eat pizza etc with utensils anyway so it's easy to avoid. Hamburgers are eaten with the help of the wrapping paper, or utensils if it's a fancier restaurant. Chips etc I eat with chopsticks.
Yes! More Delivery, please, Beryl!! I live in a small town and would never have the opportunity to try some of these dishes. In a way, I'm living vicariously through You!
Its been almost a year since the Ethiopian restaurant my family went to for 25 years closed their doors. This video has pushed me to find a new place to patron because I miss the food soooooo badly.
I love Ethiopian food. Very rich, not too spicy, beautifully prepared, and eaten by hand with the yummy teff pancake. Eating with a big group is so nice, especially at the home of a friend in Ethiopia. Don’t forget the coffee ceremony. ❤
I also love cabbage and last night I made my cabbage comfort food. Fried cabbage with bacon and roasted potatoes. It was wet and rainy yesterday so I looked forward to the cabbage all day. It is so fast and easy I would make it every day if I could.
Man, it's been eons since I've had Ethiopian food; so wonderful! By the way, Ethiopian honey wine is really worth trying -- it's light and not cloying as I feared it would be. And I love the idea of a cabbage episode!
17:38 You are kinda right on that one. If you’ve had street food in Mumbai, the ‘ragda’ used in some of the chaat items is essentially cooked split peas.
YEA BERYL WOULD BE PERFECT! There is a #foodforpalestine tag and the channel middleeats is participating with delicious Palestinian dishes. However I have not seen beryl even mention the genocide of ceasefire, I assume because of her partnership ties with companies and what not. Still shouldn't stop her from using her voice tho... 🇵🇸
I loved this episode. I discovered Berbere watching a cooking show competition of all things, pizza and one was made using Berbere as seasoning. The reaction of those who tried it was so positive, I had to go find it and try it. At first, I sautéed some cabbage onion and mushrooms with it, and it was amazing. Everyone loved it. Since then, I use it a lot, with cut up chicken thighs; little did I know I was making something similar to chicken special tibs. Everything you tried looks delicious. BTW love watching your channel. Love it when you find similarities with food around the world. Keep enlightening us.
Ethiopian cuisine is one of my favorites. There was a great Ethiopian place in the city, and I would go several times a month, despite the distance. And Doro Wot is insane. Love it. Sadly, the restaurant shut down, years ago.
As per usual, I know the spot you picked (Meskerem.) It's tasty. My favorite of the Ethiopian spots in the city is probably Haile on Ave B but this spot is tasty.
A very famous San Francisco chef said salads are made to eat with your fingers. I love the cultural pinch with a tortilla or a Ethiopian fermented bread To pick up the food.
the cold green lentil salad comes on most veggie combos near me. I've had a couple that had a more pronounced bite, and asked if it had horseradish. the owner said that it was the "real" Ethiopian mustard
Beryl, I envy you this feast. I've only eaten these delicacies once in my life, and in a large group at that, and I must admit that it's food designed for socializing. You can see that the Ethiopians have a high culinary culture and are hospitable because these dishes simply ask you to sit down, talk and eat. I send love to the proud Ethiopians and their culture. And of course for you. Great channel and even better host 😊❤ Super inclusive and full of good vibes community. What more could you want. Have a nice day 😊
I’ve always been so curious to try but so intimidated because I had no reference on what to get. Thank you for this!! Would love a cabbage episode. Or yucca/cassava
Well, I learned about one new dish: Azefa! I usually get the combo platters at Ethiopian restaurants, and I have always made sure to look up the various dishes so I know what they're called, so I knew all of the other dishes (I've never yet gotten Kifto, but I might next time.) Beryl, I'm glad you included a few more recomomendations in the description. I hope you do a second Ethiopian episode!
How exciting. When I still lived in Sacramento CA, my favorite restaurant was Ethiopian. I now live on the Mediterranean and, I have not found an Ethiopian restaurant here but it would be wonderful to be able to expand my experience with Ethiopian meals and share them with my friends. Thank you.
I love eating with my fingers and the Injera, especially when I am in Washington DC where they have a lot of great Ethiopian restaurants. Some make the Injera with both teff and wheat, although I understand that authentic Injera is made with only teff. The Shiro Wat is usually my favorite.
I made doro wat(and sega wat too!) before sometime last year. It took awhile to make because I had to make a few different components because I didn't have access to certain ingredients. I remember it being pretty tasty. Also I dont mind eating with my hands👍 My younger brother is also someone who doesn't mind eating with his hands. He will literally eat cake with his hands😂 I love the food delivery series so it would nice to see more!🙏
I just had Ethiopoan wine (Tej) and Ethiopoan beer (Tella) this weekend. While the wine is more of a honey mead and has a mellowness to it; both have a similar general "plant" flavor .
Somehow I didn't know that a variety of Ethiopian dishes were offered with lentils instead of meat. Can't wait to try them sometime! I'm not sure I have any Ethiopian restaurants where I live (I just moved a few weeks ago), but that would be a signal to try to make them on my own ;)
I go to Ethiopian restaurants regularly - love it! I usually order the vegetarian dishes, but I'm unfamiliar with most of the dishes you presented. What you called Tikil Gomen, most of the restaurants around here (California) call Atakilt Wot. I'm familiar with Miser Wot and Shiro Wot. I've never encountered Fossolia or Buticha. Looking forward to finding them someplace! My favorites are Atakilt and mushroom tibs. Thanks for sharing!
Mhmm. I love Ethiopian food. Its a great one to try if you find new foods intimidating because all of the ingredients are familiar but the spicing is so different. Gursha in Dublin in Ireland is fantastic. It started out as a supper club in a café near me and then over covid they moved to delivery and had a food truck for a while, and now they have their own permanent restaurant! They have 3 meat options and 6 veg. Doro wat Yebeg Tips Yebeg Alicha Misir Wat Shiro Wat Keysir Wat Atakilt Alicha Gomen Ater Kik Alicha All served on and with extra injeera. They still do a supper club which is kind of a set meal except you can have as many of the 9 dishes as you like and as much of them as you want but then theres also a brownie and icecream and ethiopian coffee at the end. Omg that coffe! Incredible. So fruity. Your injeera looks different to theirs which is almost grey, but I've seen someone say yours might not have teff in it? You havent mentioned the taste of it which in my experience is a strong sourdough flavour because it's a fermented batter.
That was a lot of fun. I too knew of only a few Ethiopian dishes before, so this was very educational for me. I'm very interested now in trying Ethiopian food from a restaurant.
Nothing better than eating with your hands! I made an entire Ethiopian meal for my family (the injeera took 3 tries) and we all loved using the tools we were born with! When my boys were little I wanted them to try cous cous and I showed them how to take a little in your hand and form a ball. You could imagine how much fun that was for little kids! PS They are all grown and great cooks (one is a CIA trained chef). Your channel is my absolute favorite Beryl. You are amazing!
Thank you for sharing Ethiopian food with us! I personally dislike earing with my hands, because I have issues getting my hands dirty/touching weird textures. That being said, I think it's smart to eat with your hands/injera!
That all looks so good, I love the egg and any of the lentil dishes. That said, I also really like their chicken and beef dishes. I think I am going to have to get some this weekend. Ethiopian food is so flavourful and delightful.
Thanks for showing the world one of the best cousins in the world. I love Doro wot (the cheaken steaw) and the Kitfo (spicy minced beef). I like the way you enjoyed eating with you hand all the details you shared. Thanks a lot. #EthiopianFood😍😍😍
I love Ethiopian food. It is always in my Top5 of World Cusines. We had an amazing Ethiopian restaurant here in my hometown in Germany - unfortunately is has closed many years ago. Luckily I had a colleague from Ethiopia and she and her sisters told me many original recipes which I am now able to cook myself for me and friends. They also told me how to make Tej and Tella - so our Ethiopian foodie nights are always a bit on the boozy side... Eating with your hands is a great joy too.
I really appreciate and would love to hear more of comparisons of what you eat with more well known or even just dishes that you know. It helps someone like me that can't imagine the spices well, see adjacent flavors and dishes. I love watching these videos 😊
Eating with my hands is a nostalgic experience for me. My great grandmother would encourage us to eat our collars greens and cornbread with our hands. It was so fun to us!
Noting that injera in Ethiopian restaurants in the US generally contains wheat unless the restaurant specifies otherwise. And there is generally an upcharge for the gluten free version.
When I lived in Los Angeles I would buy GroupOns to activities or restaurants I knew nothing about to force myself to go out and explore - that's how I discovered Ehtiopian food. I've never looked back. Every country I visit I search for Ethiopian restaurants to try new dishes and see their take on my favorites.
I love eating with my hands! I also feel like it forces you to focus more on the food that you're eating because you're adding a sensory component and also can't like touch your phone while you're eating.
All of this food looks absolutely stunning! I used to work near an Ethiopian street food vendor in London, and I'd always get lunch from her as like my treat when it was payday or if I was having a stressful week. It's so delicious, but because it's so veggie focused it felt like I was doing my body some good too! 😊 With that said, I really struggle eating with my hands - it's a huge sensory ick for me. But I'm fully willing to admit that I'm in the minority here. I don't even like eating chips or popcorn with my hands - I've been known to use chopsticks to eat chips just to avoid using my fingers 😂 I just can't stand the feeling of having something sticky or greasy or anything like that on my fingers. It makes the experience so unpleasant for me.
I used to live in a neighborhood with dozens of Ethiopian restaurants - now I only have one in my county. I love the food and love eating with my hands. At home, I enjoy eating salad with my hands, picking out each leaf and bite (but of course use utensils when in a restaurant).
Yes! No wooden spoon! On the topic of eating with your hands, there are certain foods that just don't taste the same as if you ate it with a fork (or wooden spoon...). If I'm served phutu/ugali/sadza/braaipap (a stiff or crumbly maize meal dish) at a braai/BBQ or at any time really, I will generally eat it with my hand/fingers. It's probably all in my head, but it tastes far better than when using cutlery to eat it.
I've always been fortunate enough to live in areas with Ethiopian restaurants. Misir wat has always been my favorite, and I loooove injera bread--I'd eat it with just about anything. I also discovered that berebere goes really well sauteed with pineapple.
We eat with our hands all the time. I tend to cook dishes from India to Africa and points in between. Eating with hands enhances the experience, smell, taste and texture. I LOVE Ethiopian food -- and I grow my own berbere peppers on my homestead. I grow so many culturally-specific peppers i've earned the nickname "hot pepper chick"... i make an ethiopian collard green recipe that features garlic, ginger, and berbere powder :)
10:13 Americans do eat with their hands a lot, though they are not very aware of it. They use hands when eating bagels, tacos, burritos, sandwiches, hamburgers, hotdog, pizza, french fries, etc. And for fine dining, they use their hands most of the time when eating lobster or crab. And yes, eating with your hands make sense, but with clean hands of course!
yeah, I can understand not wanting to have messy hands as a texture aversion, like I'm autistic and I know a lot of us would have an incredibly hard time being comfortable with it, even though I'm actually fine with it most of the time. But otherwise I think it can be a reflection of closed mindedness, or even someones hygiene habits lol. someone who doesn't wash their hands very often would definitely be adverse to the idea of eating food with your hands.
@@AliceBunny05yeah I'm autistic too and I could never eat anything in my hands that would involve my hands getting saucy. Total respect to people and cultures who do this but it'd stress me out!
Instead of eating with fork and spoon wishing the hands eating with hand very 100 💯 clean instead eating restaurant metal fork and spoon,
😂😂😂😂 Not eating burritos hand eating... like with fingers
@@samlsd9711 "Finger eating" That is first in the world. You mean you dip your fingers into the burrito and lick it? 😂
I'd love to see some Ghanaian food. I always feel as if African nations are under-represented when discussing international food culture.
Agreed. And African countries have so much incredible and very diverse food. It's a huge continent, we don't see nearly enough representation. 😊
I think she should try Red Red.
well, someone has to do the representing and if white people try its hard to get good sources and they often get trashed for cultural appropriation . . . I am all in fore more representation and less judgment!
@@beardoodle9835 Ethiopia is in Africa. Unless you are suggesting SubSaharan?
@@gabriellakadar I was talking about all African cuisine. Of course I know where Ethiopia is.
If you can find a Native American restaurant that’s be great to see or aunt even reach out to a reservation. You highlighted Native American food before and it’d be awesome to see that again. It sad that there are so little places in this country to experience indigenous foods but you can get food from everywhere around the world. We just had a new Ojibwe restaurant open up on Madeline Island and it’s super exciting! I was even asked to paint a mural there which was great because the island is named after one of my ancestors.
AGREED, that would be amazing!
I wish there more more restaurants that served Indigenous food. There is only one in my area in CO.
@@Cantetinza17 I wish there were more Native American restaurants, too! But, even though I live in Oklahoma, the state with the most Native Americans, I don't know of any such restaurants!
One the few cuisines that the NY metro does not have (AFAIK... and I've looked, would love a correction) is Native. Nothing like the scene in Minneapolis for example. There are some places that focus on indigenous Central/South American ingredients and recipes though
Do you know of any indigenous restaurants in NYC? I REALLY would love to try indigenous food
Please, please do a cabbage episode! Thanks for having veggie content. :)
Whew! I was hoping someone said this. I love the veggie content too!! And cabbage is one of my favorite foods
Yes, this would be great!!
yes cabbage!!!
My go to dish is cabbage noodles! extreamly simple, needs no spice beside some salt and very flavorful and satisfying ^^
Yes to a cabbage episode! I was just about to say it and decided this thread could be the petition. There's a great south Indian cabbage recipe that the world needs to know@@SingingSealRiana
One of my fav cabbage recipes is Ethiopian
Thank you to all the contributors. I have no idea what to order or how to order, but I love the food. I had an Ethiopian neighbor and her cooking always smelled good and one day she gave a taste, it was wonderful. Cheers.
Most (all?) restaurants have a combination meat which is 4 kinds of meat and a comb veggie which is 4+ kinds of veggies. For a group just order those two and you're set. You'll have roughly everything she ordered except the appetizers.
My first experience with Ethiopian food was from a group of refugee women. They opened a cafe in order to train women in hospitality and get into the workforce. They fed us so much, I had no idea what I was eating but the Doro wat was spectacular. I have been back many times over the years and the food brings a smile to my face.
Where are you from?
Brisbane, QLD
Could you do an episode with how the world eats Semolina ?! Pretty please it's so versatile and yet underrated. Like in India we've upma, halva and so much more ❤
With an Indian hubby, I'm sure she can find her hubby('s family) to get her to make homemade rava masala dosa.
Norwegian cuisine also has some semolina porridges that are awesome! My favorite recipe is kaffegraut from North Wild Kitchen.
@@ninjabgwriter it's so interesting to see how people have it everywhere
We love semolina in Ireland. We have it as a dessert, it's mixed with milk, sugar and vanilla, then topped with fresh or canned (preferably canned) peaches :)
I live in DC which has a large Ethiopian population, which means we have lots of Ethiopian restaurants. I always love introducing friends who visit to Ethiopian food-- they always love it. As I don't like things like sour dough bread, injera was an acquired taste for me at first, but then I learned to love it as it goes perfectly with the flavors of the food. However, as I don't eat beef, and certainly not raw, I've never had the kitfo. I absolutely love the whole fried fish, and I always order it. I also really enjoy all the vegetarian dishes. When I visited Ethiopia many years ago, it was in the spring during fasting season, so I really got a chance to sample all the various vegetarian foods. Yum. Glad you tried Ethiopian food and shared it with your audience.
I wish u try kitfo, u will loveeee it.
our food is one of a kind, my friend from Jamaica, didn't like injera at first, but after that I would take her always she got used to it. Now she eats that all the time.😂😂
Welcome.
❤❤love this episode, I’m bias as an Ethiopian but I’ve never met anyone who dislikes our food. I’m vegan now and far more consciousness about a balanced nutritious diet, and let me tell y’all traditional Ethiopian vegan dishes are the best for this. Orthodox Christian are required to fast for a lot of the year, so we’ve been making these combinations for literally hundreds of years, basic ingredients (complex spice mix) highly nutritious especially teff. Always ask for teff ingera, the darker the injera the better for you, it can border on bitter, but when mixed with the veg 🎉🎉🎉
I am not a vegan but I respect that a lot! My go to at Ethiopian restaurants has always been kitfo and injera, with a nice side of atilkit wot as my veggies.
Yup I'm vegetarian and Ethiopian food is bomb. Shiro wat?? Yum. That berbere spice blend just hits different.
@@JinghisKhan this is an experienced palate - pro order! It’s giving regular customer, it’s giving I’m practical family now 😉so glad you found our beautiful food.
@@Rose-jz6sx you know!! 🫶🏾✨🇪🇹✨🇪🇹
Amen Sista 😀
I love that there was so much vegetarian food in this one. Often I feel kind of alienated in these because there are so few dishes I can eat but this one was a wonder! Now I have to see where my nearest Ethiopian restaurant is.
Totally!! I’d love an all veggie episode! I still love the content, but I know I won’t eat the meal options.
Three cheers for Eleni! I've had her food several times at the local market. She's an exceptional chef.
I would love to see a cabbage episode. It’s a veg I don’t know how to use. I’d like to know more about how you personally use it as well.
I have adored Ethiopian food for decades now -- so happy to see you do this!
Many years ago, there were two Ethiopian restaurants in my city and I have very fond memories of them both. Rarely have I had so much fun in such a beautiful atmosphere with some of the most amazing food I've ever eaten. I was quite a novice at the time and the staffs were very helpful and they were a big part of what made it such unique experience.
I'm Indian and love eating with my hands. Ethiopian food looks so delicious I would definitely like to try this. Love the meat platter wow
It does look like Indian food
@@floppy_hands1770 No, it doesn't. Other than we both use red onion to cook slow and long... but very very different. ❤
My husband is Ethiopian and introduced me to the cuisine. So happy you had kitfo! It’s one of my faves!
please do a cabbage video! it’s such a versatile veg and deserves its own episode for sure
If you do please include okonomiyaki, sooooo good.
Have you done an episode on indigenous dishes? I would love to learn more about the foods of indigenous people across the globe. ❤
I think there are a lot of videos from Europe, the indigenous people of Europe have a lot of variaty. Most famouse are probably the French and Italian kitchen.
@@Johan_g Well, to be honest, with this suggestion, I was hoping that cultures whose cuisine and practices are less well known or are in need of preservation might get a spotlight. 😊
@@bluexwingsPlease look up what indigenous means in a dictionary. I hope you meant to say Native American.
@@kumarvikramaditya9636 Indigenous literally means "originally occuring in or native to a particular place"... It has nothing to do with America. Edit to add: I would indeed love to see Native American cuisine featured, to be clear!
Hi Beryl! First time commenting on your channel, which I really appreciate! If you haven’t already done a segment on Persian food, I think your viewers would like it. In my experience, people who don’t know Persian cuisine assume that it’s spicy and probably challenging to eat. It isn’t. Some meat dishes, stews, rice dishes and some salads are at the core of Persian cuisine. It’s delicious and simple in its own way. Thank you.
Great choices! Whenever my friends and I go for Ethiopian, we always get a bottle of Ethiopian honey wine - tej. Not sure about alcohol delivery in your locality, but to me the tej is just as integral to the experience as the injera!
I'm so glad this video came up. Ethiopian restaurants started popping up about ten years ago. I always wanted to try it, but didn't know what to order. I feel a bit more comfortable now in trying things out.
As an Ethiopian, i love to invite those who try our food for z first time, Its on me, let's have fun😂.. Whr do u live?
I would love to see a Guyanese episode! I have Guyanese heritage but none of my family from that side are still alive so I really don’t know much about the food they would have loved. I feel like the community you have built would definitely have some ideas I’d love to learn, and you would be the perfect host for that Beryl!
this would be so good!! I have so many Guyanese friends I want to see this and there are a lot of Guyanese people in New York too
Ethiopian food is genuinely my favorite cuisine. Any time I come across a new Ethiopian restaurant, I have to try it. Highly recommend giving it a chance!
There was a Ethiopian restaurant near where I used to live and I would always get at least one dish I'd never tried before when I ate there. I would ask my server for a recommendation and go with it. I loved their use of spices.
Oh man, I really want some Ethiopian food now. I fell in love with the cuisine when I was kid, because it was the only time I could eat with my hands without getting in trouble.
I've noticed that the people that are most vocal about eating with your hands seem to not mind appetizers, sandwiches, and pizza. Personally, I love eating with my hands.
Or fried chicken!
I mind fried chicken but for me personally it's just a dislike of having stuff feeling sticky on my fingers so I either wipe them or lick them off approximately 400 times during a single meal, or I just feel very uncomfortable the entire time. Sandwiches, appetizers, and pizza are generally dry on the outside and don't get anything more than crumbs on you and those come off on their own. I'm totally OK eating with my hands if I have a bread barrier, like scooping curry with naan, for instance. But scooping the curry with my hands feels unpleasant and I'd rather not so once I run out of naan I revert to a fork or spoon.
I hate eating with my hands and never do it if I can avoid it. But here we eat pizza etc with utensils anyway so it's easy to avoid. Hamburgers are eaten with the help of the wrapping paper, or utensils if it's a fancier restaurant. Chips etc I eat with chopsticks.
I was coming to say this! It's typically Americans that eat pizza, chicken, tacos, sandwiches, cookies and so much more with their hands
@@thatcrazychick3108 ....how do you eat cookies with anything but your hands? even brits eat those with their hands (well, biscuits, anyway).
What your sister is doing for the refugees in Jordon is really great ❤️❤️❤️😍 it made me happy.
Yes! More Delivery, please, Beryl!! I live in a small town and would never have the opportunity to try some of these dishes. In a way, I'm living vicariously through You!
Its been almost a year since the Ethiopian restaurant my family went to for 25 years closed their doors. This video has pushed me to find a new place to patron because I miss the food soooooo badly.
I love Ethiopian food. Very rich, not too spicy, beautifully prepared, and eaten by hand with the yummy teff pancake. Eating with a big group is so nice, especially at the home of a friend in Ethiopia. Don’t forget the coffee ceremony. ❤
I also love cabbage and last night I made my cabbage comfort food. Fried cabbage with bacon and roasted potatoes. It was wet and rainy yesterday so I looked forward to the cabbage all day. It is so fast and easy I would make it every day if I could.
Ooo sounds very tasty.
I've been waiting for Beryl to feature some Ethiopian food in one of her videos, but now she has made a whole video dedicated to Ethiopian food 😆
We appreciate your dedication and hard work as always. You'll always have our support no matter what.
Man, it's been eons since I've had Ethiopian food; so wonderful! By the way, Ethiopian honey wine is really worth trying -- it's light and not cloying as I feared it would be. And I love the idea of a cabbage episode!
The way I get excited to see this episode!😊 I luuuvvv Ethiopian and lucky to have plenty of good Ethiopian food where I live!
17:38 You are kinda right on that one. If you’ve had street food in Mumbai, the ‘ragda’ used in some of the chaat items is essentially cooked split peas.
Please do an episode about Palestinian food !!!!
YEA BERYL WOULD BE PERFECT! There is a #foodforpalestine tag and the channel middleeats is participating with delicious Palestinian dishes. However I have not seen beryl even mention the genocide of ceasefire, I assume because of her partnership ties with companies and what not. Still shouldn't stop her from using her voice tho... 🇵🇸
I love that idea!
This episode is about real countries
@@nikumilotic1333it's a real country whether you like it or not you "Z"
Yes!
She clearly had so much fun eating these dishes, what a delightful episode! Really craving Ethiopian food now 😋
You’ve become far more tolerant of spice! I love Ethiopian food.
I loved this episode. I discovered Berbere watching a cooking show competition of all things, pizza and one was made using Berbere as seasoning. The reaction of those who tried it was so positive, I had to go find it and try it. At first, I sautéed some cabbage onion and mushrooms with it, and it was amazing. Everyone loved it. Since then, I use it a lot, with cut up chicken thighs; little did I know I was making something similar to chicken special tibs. Everything you tried looks delicious. BTW love watching your channel. Love it when you find similarities with food around the world. Keep enlightening us.
Ethiopian cuisine is one of my favorites. There was a great Ethiopian place in the city, and I would go several times a month, despite the distance. And Doro Wot is insane. Love it. Sadly, the restaurant shut down, years ago.
Thank you, Beryl, for showcasing Ethiopian food--my favorite cuisine! I could eat doro wat and gomen every day for the rest of my life! Yum!!! 😊
I LOVE Ethiopian food - so fresh, balanced and full of flavor. Will definitely try these new dishes.
As per usual, I know the spot you picked (Meskerem.) It's tasty. My favorite of the Ethiopian spots in the city is probably Haile on Ave B but this spot is tasty.
Wow! What a fascinating episode. Thank you
miser wat is my absolute favorite everytime I get the veggie platter! Soooo good!
Loved this episode! This series is awesome. Thanks Beryl! and a big yes to a cabbage episode
My favorite part of Ethiopian take away is the injera under the dishes the next day 🤤
That lentil salad looks yum! Had to look for the recipe asap 🤤🥰 thanks for sharing !
A very famous San Francisco chef said salads are made to eat with your fingers. I love the cultural pinch with a tortilla or a Ethiopian fermented bread To pick up the food.
the cold green lentil salad comes on most veggie combos near me. I've had a couple that had a more pronounced bite, and asked if it had horseradish. the owner said that it was the "real" Ethiopian mustard
I absolutely love the delivery episodes, and a cabbage episode would be amazing!
Beryl, I envy you this feast. I've only eaten these delicacies once in my life, and in a large group at that, and I must admit that it's food designed for socializing. You can see that the Ethiopians have a high culinary culture and are hospitable because these dishes simply ask you to sit down, talk and eat. I send love to the proud Ethiopians and their culture. And of course for you. Great channel and even better host 😊❤ Super inclusive and full of good vibes community. What more could you want. Have a nice day 😊
I’ve always been so curious to try but so intimidated because I had no reference on what to get. Thank you for this!!
Would love a cabbage episode. Or yucca/cassava
There are Ethiopian chefs on UTube, you know.
Well, I learned about one new dish: Azefa! I usually get the combo platters at Ethiopian restaurants, and I have always made sure to look up the various dishes so I know what they're called, so I knew all of the other dishes (I've never yet gotten Kifto, but I might next time.) Beryl, I'm glad you included a few more recomomendations in the description. I hope you do a second Ethiopian episode!
How exciting. When I still lived in Sacramento CA, my favorite restaurant was Ethiopian. I now live on the Mediterranean and, I have not found an Ethiopian restaurant here but it would be wonderful to be able to expand my experience with Ethiopian meals and share them with my friends. Thank you.
Amazing video Beryl! Absolutely love Ethiopian food
I am a vegan. I will have to check out vegan Ethiopian food. Thanks for your presentation and the recommendations of the Ethiopian foodies.
I love eating with my fingers and the Injera, especially when I am in Washington DC where they have a lot of great Ethiopian restaurants. Some make the Injera with both teff and wheat, although I understand that authentic Injera is made with only teff. The Shiro Wat is usually my favorite.
Team Eats with Hands here. It's fun. It's practical. Love this What Do__Order series.
I made doro wat(and sega wat too!) before sometime last year. It took awhile to make because I had to make a few different components because I didn't have access to certain ingredients. I remember it being pretty tasty.
Also I dont mind eating with my hands👍 My younger brother is also someone who doesn't mind eating with his hands. He will literally eat cake with his hands😂
I love the food delivery series so it would nice to see more!🙏
I just had Ethiopoan wine (Tej) and Ethiopoan beer (Tella) this weekend. While the wine is more of a honey mead and has a mellowness to it; both have a similar general "plant" flavor .
Somehow I didn't know that a variety of Ethiopian dishes were offered with lentils instead of meat. Can't wait to try them sometime! I'm not sure I have any Ethiopian restaurants where I live (I just moved a few weeks ago), but that would be a signal to try to make them on my own ;)
There is a full veggie combo dish which could come with more than 10 varieties. she just ordered the meat combo.
Love this! I’ve never had Ethiopian food, but as a vegetarian I really need to check this out. That veggie plate looked so good! Thanks
Also, Tunisian food would be fun to do!! Love harissa in my food!
I go to Ethiopian restaurants regularly - love it! I usually order the vegetarian dishes, but I'm unfamiliar with most of the dishes you presented.
What you called Tikil Gomen, most of the restaurants around here (California) call Atakilt Wot. I'm familiar with Miser Wot and Shiro Wot. I've never encountered Fossolia or Buticha. Looking forward to finding them someplace!
My favorites are Atakilt and mushroom tibs.
Thanks for sharing!
Mhmm. I love Ethiopian food. Its a great one to try if you find new foods intimidating because all of the ingredients are familiar but the spicing is so different.
Gursha in Dublin in Ireland is fantastic. It started out as a supper club in a café near me and then over covid they moved to delivery and had a food truck for a while, and now they have their own permanent restaurant!
They have 3 meat options and 6 veg.
Doro wat
Yebeg Tips
Yebeg Alicha
Misir Wat
Shiro Wat
Keysir Wat
Atakilt Alicha
Gomen
Ater Kik Alicha
All served on and with extra injeera.
They still do a supper club which is kind of a set meal except you can have as many of the 9 dishes as you like and as much of them as you want but then theres also a brownie and icecream and ethiopian coffee at the end. Omg that coffe! Incredible. So fruity.
Your injeera looks different to theirs which is almost grey, but I've seen someone say yours might not have teff in it? You havent mentioned the taste of it which in my experience is a strong sourdough flavour because it's a fermented batter.
I like how you describe the food. It feels like you really know about food and cooking.
That was a lot of fun. I too knew of only a few Ethiopian dishes before, so this was very educational for me. I'm very interested now in trying Ethiopian food from a restaurant.
Nothing better than eating with your hands! I made an entire Ethiopian meal for my family (the injeera took 3 tries) and we all loved using the tools we were born with! When my boys were little I wanted them to try cous cous and I showed them how to take a little in your hand and form a ball. You could imagine how much fun that was for little kids! PS They are all grown and great cooks (one is a CIA trained chef). Your channel is my absolute favorite Beryl. You are amazing!
Great episode!!!!
My husband and I tried it for the first time this summer and loved it everything was delicious
Thank you so much, Beryl, for covering my favorite cuisine! I can't order it where I live now, but it is associated with some of my best memories.
Thank you for sharing Ethiopian food with us! I personally dislike earing with my hands, because I have issues getting my hands dirty/touching weird textures. That being said, I think it's smart to eat with your hands/injera!
That all looks so good, I love the egg and any of the lentil dishes. That said, I also really like their chicken and beef dishes. I think I am going to have to get some this weekend. Ethiopian food is so flavourful and delightful.
I enjoy Ethiopean food as well; tikil gomen, mesir wot, kik alicha are very tasty! There is also an Ethiopean beet salad you may end up craving!
This was very interesting to me. You are so fortunate to live where these foods are accessible.
Have you done Salvadorian Cuisine yet? It’s so delicious!
Thanks for showing the world one of the best cousins in the world. I love Doro wot (the cheaken steaw) and the Kitfo (spicy minced beef). I like the way you enjoyed eating with you hand all the details you shared. Thanks a lot. #EthiopianFood😍😍😍
Please do a cabbage episode!! I LOVE cabbage!! And I don't eat it as much as I want! Would love to learn some new methods!
I love Ethiopian food. It is always in my Top5 of World Cusines. We had an amazing Ethiopian restaurant here in my hometown in Germany - unfortunately is has closed many years ago. Luckily I had a colleague from Ethiopia and she and her sisters told me many original recipes which I am now able to cook myself for me and friends. They also told me how to make Tej and Tella - so our Ethiopian foodie nights are always a bit on the boozy side... Eating with your hands is a great joy too.
I’ve been hanging for an Ethiopian episode! It all looks so good!
I really appreciate and would love to hear more of comparisons of what you eat with more well known or even just dishes that you know. It helps someone like me that can't imagine the spices well, see adjacent flavors and dishes. I love watching these videos 😊
Doro wat is one of my absolute favorite meals of all time, but all Ethiopian food is so delicious.
Eating with my hands is a nostalgic experience for me. My great grandmother would encourage us to eat our collars greens and cornbread with our hands. It was so fun to us!
Thank you for doing this. I'm eritrean and we have very similar foods so hope to see you do those as well.
Noting that injera in Ethiopian restaurants in the US generally contains wheat unless the restaurant specifies otherwise. And there is generally an upcharge for the gluten free version.
I love getting katenga when at an Ethiopian restaurant. Fried injera with a spicy paste inside. So good!
When I lived in Los Angeles I would buy GroupOns to activities or restaurants I knew nothing about to force myself to go out and explore - that's how I discovered Ehtiopian food. I've never looked back. Every country I visit I search for Ethiopian restaurants to try new dishes and see their take on my favorites.
I love eating with my hands! I also feel like it forces you to focus more on the food that you're eating because you're adding a sensory component and also can't like touch your phone while you're eating.
My jaw dropped when Asda came onscreen, she is angelic!
Aerosmith Rocks really caught my eye! It’s great to see in your collection!
pls make more about ethiopia❤
All of this food looks absolutely stunning! I used to work near an Ethiopian street food vendor in London, and I'd always get lunch from her as like my treat when it was payday or if I was having a stressful week. It's so delicious, but because it's so veggie focused it felt like I was doing my body some good too! 😊 With that said, I really struggle eating with my hands - it's a huge sensory ick for me. But I'm fully willing to admit that I'm in the minority here. I don't even like eating chips or popcorn with my hands - I've been known to use chopsticks to eat chips just to avoid using my fingers 😂 I just can't stand the feeling of having something sticky or greasy or anything like that on my fingers. It makes the experience so unpleasant for me.
I used to live in a neighborhood with dozens of Ethiopian restaurants - now I only have one in my county. I love the food and love eating with my hands. At home, I enjoy eating salad with my hands, picking out each leaf and bite (but of course use utensils when in a restaurant).
Yes! No wooden spoon! On the topic of eating with your hands, there are certain foods that just don't taste the same as if you ate it with a fork (or wooden spoon...). If I'm served phutu/ugali/sadza/braaipap (a stiff or crumbly maize meal dish) at a braai/BBQ or at any time really, I will generally eat it with my hand/fingers. It's probably all in my head, but it tastes far better than when using cutlery to eat it.
I've always been fortunate enough to live in areas with Ethiopian restaurants. Misir wat has always been my favorite, and I loooove injera bread--I'd eat it with just about anything. I also discovered that berebere goes really well sauteed with pineapple.
If you are eating injera without anything, you are one of us 😊
Good describer!!💗💯👍🏾
They should add beet stew with veggies combo taste delicious too!🙏🏾✌🏽🕊️👍🏾
I LOVE eating with my hands! I like that it slows me down and that I can use all my senses while eating!
Love lentils. I haven't made them in a while.
We eat with our hands all the time. I tend to cook dishes from India to Africa and points in between. Eating with hands enhances the experience, smell, taste and texture. I LOVE Ethiopian food -- and I grow my own berbere peppers on my homestead. I grow so many culturally-specific peppers i've earned the nickname "hot pepper chick"... i make an ethiopian collard green recipe that features garlic, ginger, and berbere powder :)