Wat (food)

Wat or wet (Amharic: ወጥ, IPA: [wətʼ]) or ito (Oromo: Ittoo) or tsebhi (Tigrinya: ጸብሒ, IPA: [sʼɐbħi]) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean stew that may be prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, a variety of vegetables, spice mixtures such as berbere (hot variety), and niter kibbeh, a seasoned clarified butter.

Wat is traditionally eaten with injera, a spongy flat bread made from the millet-like grain known as teff.

Doro wat (Amharic: ዶሮ ወጥ dōrō we̠t’, Tigrinya: ጸብሒ ደርሆ Tsebhi derhō ), is a spicy stew made of chicken.

Considered the national dish, it is the food of choice during formal and informal gatherings, eaten together as part of a group who share a communal bowl and basket of injera.

In order to avoid mixing of meat and dairy, vegetable oil can be used as a pareve substitute in lieu of ghee.

A formal serving of various pieces of wat atop an injera (photo Brussels)