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Chechebsa

Name: Chechebsa
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Ethiopia
Ingredients: 250g All-purpose flour; 150ml Water; 3 tbsp Butter; 1 tsp Berbere spice blend; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Flatbread torn into pieces and tossed in spiced butter — an Ethiopian breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Chechebsa is a breakfast dish of thin flatbread (kita) torn by hand and tossed in melted butter seasoned with berbere spice. It's especially popular in Oromia in central Ethiopia. It looks a bit like French toast, but the pancake-like bread is cooked first and then torn and tossed. It's eaten in the morning with coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an Oromia morning, the family tears fresh kita into spiced butter and eats it with coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 250g
Water 150ml
Butter 3 tbsp
Berbere spice blend 1 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix flour, water, and salt into a batter and cook thin rounds in a frying pan.
Tear the bread into bite-sized pieces.
Melt butter in the pan and add the berbere until fragrant.
Add the torn bread and toss well in the spiced butter.
When evenly coated, serve.

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