Fasting & Vegetarian
Yetsom Beyaynetuየጾም በያይነቱ
The fasting platter — eight dishes laid out on one injera, assembled over two days
- Prep
- 30 minutes
- Cook
- 2 hours
- Serves
- 6
- Region
- National
Ingredients
6 servings
Method
Work backwards from when you want to eat. The wats keep and improve; the salads do not
The day before, make the shiro, the misir wat and the kik alicha. All three are better reheated
On the day, make the gomen, the tikil gomen and the fosolia
Last of all make the azifa and the timatim salad, so they go onto the tray cold and fresh
Lay a whole injera flat over the tray so it covers the base completely
Spoon each dish onto it in its own mound, going round the edge, with the shiro in the middle
Keep the colours apart — red misir next to green gomen next to yellow kik, not red beside red
Roll the remaining injera, cut it into lengths and set them at the side
Serve with the chillies and lemon wedges
Photographs
From the kitchen
Five or six dishes is a real beyaynetu, eight is generous, and there is no fixed number. Make what you have time for
Everything except the two salads can be made ahead, which is the only reason a tray this size is manageable at all
It is a fasting platter, so no ayib and no niter kibbeh anywhere on it. Use oil throughout, including in the dishes you would normally make with butter
One tray, everyone's right hand, no plates. That is not a detail, it is the meal
Tags
- vegan
- fasting
- platter
- festive
Per serving
- Calories
- 620
- Protein
- 26g
- Carbohydrate
- 88g
- Fat
- 20g
Estimates. They shift with how you make it and what you make it with.
Suitable for
- vegan
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