Utensils are rarely used with Ethiopian cuisine.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church prescribes a number of fasting ( tsom Ge ' ez: ጾም ṣōm ) periods, including Wednesdays, Fridays, and the entire Lenten season, so Ethiopian cuisine contains many dishes that are vegan ( Amharic: ye-tsom የጾም ye-ṣōm, Tigrinya: nay-tsom ናይጾም nāy-ṣōm ).

This has also led Ethiopian cooks to develop a rich array of cooking oil sources: besides sesame and safflower, Ethiopian cuisine also uses nug ( also spelled noog, known also as niger seed ).

Ethiopian cuisine mostly consists of breads, stews ( known as wat ), grains, and spices.

Coffee is also a large part of Ethiopian culture / cuisine ; after every meal a coffee ceremony is enacted and espresso coffee is drunk.

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* Ethiopian cuisine

Notably, it is the chief ingredient in the bread injera, an important component of Ethiopian cuisine.

Category: Ethiopian cuisine

: Ensete ventricosum-Enset or " false banana ", sometimes used in Ethiopian cuisine ( particularly Gurage cuisine ).

Category: Ethiopian cuisine

This meal, consisting of injera and several kinds of wat or tsebhi ( stew ), is typical of Ethiopian cuisine | Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine.

* Ethiopian cuisine

Fenugreek is used in Eritrean and Ethiopian cuisine.

The injera of Ethiopian / Eritrean / Somali / Yemeni cuisine is often described as a thick crêpe.

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Ethiopian music uses a distinct modal system that is pentatonic, with characteristically long intervals between some notes.

Typically, an Ethiopian meal consists of a combination of injera ( flatbread ) with different wats, yet each cultural group has their unique variation.

Another distinctive Ethiopian dish is kitfo ( frequently spelled ketfo ), which consists of raw ( or rare ) beef mince marinated in mitmita ( Ge ' ez: ሚጥሚጣ mīṭmīṭā, a very spicy chili powder ) and niter kibbeh.

The Italian expeditionary force has 150 aircraft – including Savoia-Marchetti SM. 81, Caproni Ca. 113, and Caproni Ca. 133 bombers, Savoia-Marchetti S. 55 flying boats, and IMAM R. 37bis strategic reconnaissance planes – while the serviceable portion of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force consists only of three small, obsolete biplanes.

The best known Ethiopian cuisine consists of various vegetable or meat side dishes and entrées, usually a wat, or thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread made of teff flour.

Somali cuisine varies from region to region, and consists of an exotic mixture of native Somali, Ethiopian, Yemeni, Iranian, Turkish, Indian, and Italian culinary influences.

The Ethiopian cuisine consists of various vegetable or meat side dishes and entrees, often prepared as a wat or thick stew.

During the fasting period in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church tradition called filliseta ( which is in August ), two uncooked, spicy, vegetable dishes are made using broad beans.

* Wat ( food ) or wot, an Eritrean and Ethiopian spicy meat stew

Ethiopian cuisine features a very spicy dish of prepared raw beef called kitfo.

This is similar to the partial fasting within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ( abstaining from meat and milk ) which takes place during certain times of the year and lasts for weeks.

To make ends meet, it is often repeated that Woizero Atitegeb was reduced to selling " Kosso ", a native herbal remedy used to purge patients of intestinal worms ( a common occurrence because of the Ethiopian love of raw meat dishes ).

White pepper, Aframomum corrorima | korarima, black pepper and fenugreek ( clockwise, from top ) are used with chilis and salt to make berbere, a basic ingredient in many Ethiopian dishes.

* Many Ethiopian dishes

They are mainly used as an alternative to peas to prepare a flour called shiro, which is used to make shiro wot ( a stew almost ubiquitous in Ethiopian dishes ).

It is usually the first day of the year in the Coptic calendar and Ethiopian calendar ( in the period AD 1900 to AD 2099 ).

Ethiopian mead is called tej ( ጠጅ, ) and is usually home-made.

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians usually wear short white turbans made of thin cotton, as do the Ethiopian Muslims.

Of the untold numbers of Somali and Ethiopian refugees that arrive on the shores of Yemen daily, those who make their way to Saudi Arabia usually travel through the Harad district.

Thus the first day of the Ethiopian year, 1 Mäskäräm, for years between 1901 and 2099 ( inclusive ), is usually September 11 ( Gregorian ), but falls on September 12 in years before the Gregorian leap year.

Though in the past the Ethiopian wolf was feared as a livestock predator, today it is not usually considered a major threat to livestock, to the point where sheep and goats are sometimes left unattended in areas where wolves occur.

Ethiopian wolves are not usually exploited for fur, though there was an occasion in Wollo in which wolf skins were used as saddle pads.

Ethiopian wolves are not usually exploited for fur, though there was an occasion in Wollo in which wolf skins were used as saddle pads.

Although a civil title granted by the Emperor, it was usually bestowed on a clergyman due to Axum's status as the holiest site of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church within the country.

Furthermore, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church similarly became independent of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Church in 1994, when four bishops were consecrated by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria to form the basis of a local Holy Synod of the Eritrean Church.

The Blue Nile and the White Nile, originating in the Ethiopian highlands and the Central African lakes, respectively, join at Khartoum to form the Nile River proper that flows to Egypt.

Other parts of the Ethiopian regalia include, a jeweled gold sword, a gold and ivory sceptre, a large gold orb with cross, a diamond studded ring, two gold filigreed lances of traditional Ethiopian form, long scarlet robes heavily embroidered in gold.

This cape is apparently identical in form to that also worn by the Patriarch and other higher-ranking members of the Ethiopian clergy.

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Martha Ashagari had much influence from Mary Armede in her early years, she adapted Mary's deep and waling vocal techniques -- which is not a common form of singing style -- and added her own unique style of singing and influences from different cultures that changed the face of Ethiopian Music.

Religious writers have tried to attach the serpent voodoo God Danbhala to this group, as the practice they suggest was a heterodox form of Ethiopian Judaism.

Several alternative etymologies exist that hold that the Arab form may disguise a loanword from an Ethiopian or African source, suggesting Kaffa, the highland in southwestern Ethiopia as one, since the plant is indigenous to that area.

In 1846, the Ethiopian Serenaders infected London with the American craze for minstrel shows, a form of entertainment which was to remain popular until the turn of the century.

The traditional history of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church also maintains that Joktan's sons would take no part in the tower building, and that they were thus allowed to preserve the original Ge ' ez language — which their descendants, the Agazyan, carried across the Red Sea into Ethiopia as they mixed with the Cushitic and Agaw people to form the hybrid Habesha race.

For the most part, Evangelical Ethiopian Christians state that their form of Christianity is both the reformation of the current Orthodox Tewahido church as well as the restoration of it to the original Ethiopian Christianity.

The more common form, " Ras Dashen " is a corruption of its Amharic name, " Ras Dejen ", used by the system of the Ethiopian Mapping Authority ( EMA ) which means " the general who fights in front of the Emperor ".

They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages.

The text, in its existing form, is at least seven hundred years old and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians and Rastafarians to be an inspired and a reliable work.

The third fall is represented by the current ninth station, which is not actually located on the Via Dolorosa, instead being located at the entrance to the Ethiopian Orthodox Monastery and the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Saint Anthony, which together form the roof structure of the subterranean Chapel of Saint Helena in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; the Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox churches split in 1959, and prior to that time the monastic buildings were considered a single Monastery.

In Ethiopia, Christianity and Islam form the core aspects of Ethiopian culture and inform dietary customs as well as rituals and rites.

The giant Ethiopian form might reach in rare cases.

The four parties that combined to form the CUD are: Ethiopian Democratic League, All Ethiopian Unity Party ( AEUP ), United Ethiopian Democratic Party-Medhin Party and Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice.