About this dish
A thick, mounded barley porridge with a well of spiced butter at the center.
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Ingredients
🌾2 cups barley flour
🫙4 cups water
🧈1/4 cup niter kibbeh
🌶️2 tbsp berbere
Method
Serves 31
Bring water to a boil and gradually whisk in barley flour.2
Cook, stirring vigorously, until very thick and dough-like.3
Shape into a mound on a serving plate, forming a well in the center.4
Melt niter kibbeh with berbere and pour into the well.5
Serve warm, eating by dipping bites of the porridge into the spiced butter.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Genfo is a traditional Ethiopian breakfast porridge, distinctively served with a well of spiced butter and berbere in the middle.
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