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Simplified Mekelesha

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Simplified Mekelesha

The reason why I am calling this simplified mekelesha is because there is one ingredient that is very hard to find outside of Africa and the Indian sub continent.  It is called thippili or long pepper.  This is used in Indian dishes  and also  mostly for making  the real Mccoy mekelesha which is Ethiopia’s garam masala.

In mortar and pestle I grated some nutmeg first then I added 2 green cardamoms,  2 kabab chini, 1 black cardamom,   3 cloves and a pinch each of black peppercorns, allspice seeds and cumin seeds, black cumin seeds and caraway seeds.  Update: I was able to finally find some kind of powder named  ganthoda powder.  I looked it up it is thippali  or Indian long pepper.  I was finally able to sorce this.  I am going to add 1 pinch of this ganothda powder in a bowl before I make this mekelesha again.  The Indian or Pakistani stores should carry it. I found this at Cermac grocery store here in Chicago.

I ground those in to a coarse powder and I am ready to use them in any soup or wot dish.

There are lots of Ethiopian dishes I have kind of played around with that I made and put my own spin on it and put it in this blog and I will do that in the future inshallah.

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I love to cook I collect and try out new recipies I am in to yarn craft and I collect knitting and crochet patterns plus I am married I even play runescape and I am an avid reader I even am a music junkie I collect music because I can't live without it I speak German English Urdu Pashto Hindko plus I am still learning Arabic Turkish and Spanish The music I listen to are jazz, rock, R&B from the old school, European classical. regae, Hip Hop from old school, the blues House from old school, Songs in English, German, Urdu, Hindko, Pashto, Punjabi, Turkish and Arabic, Um kalthom and Mohamed Mounir, Fauda Arar, Baris Manco, Amr Diab, Tual, Yalin, Sesan Asku, Ahmet Keya, Ahmet Ozhan, Alamgir, Quamar Gulla, Nashenas, Naghma, Noor Jahan, Mohamad Rafi, Lata, Kishore Kumar, Talat Mahmood are my favorite singers. The list goes on etc. and of course I love latamore and luther vandros, the beatles, rolling stones and Yusef Islam is also one of the greatest voices and Allah blessed them all with such great talents.

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