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Thursday, 23 June 2016

Food preparation in Ethiopia

Lots of things are not as simple here as they are at home.
If you buy a kg of lentils, or rice, or beans, or chick peas, or whatever, you don't assume that they are ready for use.  


 Before cooking, all debris or 'foreign bodies' need to be removed


either by hand


or by tossing
 

and blowing away.


I need a heap more practice at tossing the rice


but I managed to do a good job of picking all the stones and grit out of the lentils, chick peas and beans.
 
  

So glad I did because I came across some serious tooth breakers. Can you see that lighter coloured stone a bit bigger than a lentil just below centre middle? That would have been disastrous!

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