Live Healthy America Class- Ethiopia!

In class this past Wednesday, we learned about Ethiopia!  In this lesson we make Wat and tried Injera.  This is a traditional food from Ethiopia.  First we started out by preparing the food and then while it cooked we learned about the country!  Students started out by chopping the carrots, tearing the chard leaves, chopping the chard stems, chopping the celery, grating the ginger, and crushing the garlic.  After all the food was prepped, we went over a power point on Ethiopia!

We learned about the geography.  I explained to them that this country is landlocked.  That means it does not touch any major bodies of water.  We also went over traditional Ethiopian food like lentils and injera.  Lentils are legumes that come in many different colors and injers is a traditional large spongy pancake made of teff flour and water.  Injera is served with all kinds of dishes on any occasion and eaten with the fingers.  Some traditional Ethiopian spices are paprika and tumeric.  There are more than 70 languages spoken in Ethiopia and one of the official languages is Amharic.  People in Ethiopia prefer to eat with their hands because they say it gives you a more personal connection with your food.

Attached here is the recipe we used to make the Ethiopian food!  Enjoy!