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Ga'at

Name: Ga'at
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eritrea
Ingredients: 250g Barley Flour; 700ml Water; 1/2 tsp Salt; 50g Butter; 2 tsp Berbere spice blend; 200g Plain yogurt

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Stiff barley porridge with spiced butter and yogurt poured in the center — a traditional Eritrean porridge.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ga'at is a traditional Eritrean dish: barley or maize flour is worked stiff in hot water and shaped into a dome, a well is made in the center and filled with melted butter mixed with berbere, and yogurt is spooned around it. It's also known as a dish made to nourish women after childbirth.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Eritrean home, a dome of stiff porridge sits on a big plate as the family spoons up the red butter in the center and the white yogurt around it.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Barley Flour 250g
Water 700ml
Salt 1/2 tsp
Butter 50g
Berbere spice blend 2 tsp
Plain yogurt 200g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a pot, add the barley flour a little at a time, and work vigorously with a wooden spoon.
Work on low for 15 minutes until smooth and stiff.
Pack into a wet bowl and invert onto a plate to form a dome.
Make a deep well in the center.
Melt the butter with the berbere, pour into the well, and spoon the yogurt around it.

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