Difo Dabo፡ድፎ ዳቦ

Ingredients

• 6 cups wheat flour
• 2 tsp dry yeast
• 2 cups warm water
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/3 cup niter kibbeh, melted
• 1 tsp korerima, ground
• 1 tsp tikur azmud (nigella seeds)
• 1 tsp salt
• 6 banana or enset leaves, washed and wiped dry

Method

1. 1

   Stir the yeast and the honey into the warm water and leave it 10 minutes until it foams

2. 2

   Mix the flour, salt, korerima and nigella in a large bowl

3. 3

   Pour in the yeast liquid and the melted kibbeh and work it into a firm dough

4. 4

   Knead it 15 minutes. It should be stiffer than a sandwich loaf

5. 5

   Cover it and leave it to rise 2 hours, until doubled

6. 6

   Knock it back and shape it into one large round. Do not divide it

7. 7

   Line a heavy lidded pot or a deep tin with the leaves, set the dough in, and fold more leaves over the top

8. 8

   Bake covered at 170°C for 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30, until a skewer comes out clean

9. 9

   Let it cool in the leaves before unwrapping