The onions take an hour
150 minutes ยท serves 4 ยท Hard
What you need
- 6 chicken legs
- 1kg red onions
- 4 tbsp berbere
- 100g spiced butter
- 1 tbsp ginger
- 4 cloves garlic
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- 2 tbsp water
What you do
- 1Chop the onions finely and cook them dry, no fat, on a low heat for a full hour. They collapse into a paste. This is the recipe.
- 2Only then add the butter, garlic and ginger.
- 3Berbere in and cook it out for 10 minutes โ raw berbere tastes dusty.
- 4Chicken in, barely covered, 45 minutes on low.
- 5Score the eggs and add them for the last 15 minutes so they take on colour.
- 6Serve on injera, no cutlery.
