St Louis and Vegetarian Food
Meskerem - The Ethiopian Restaurant
Meskerem(September) is the first month of Ethiopian Calendar. I visited last month before my travel to South America. The meal at a Ethiopian restaurant works in different fashion. Generally the group of people sit in front of a platter placed at the center of a table. The platter can be mix of Vegetarian, Beef, Lamb or chicken. One eats this with ingera which is made of fermented tef, a rye-like Ethiopian grain (looks somewhat like Indian Dosa).
I being a lone Vegetarian, ordered a vegetarian platter alone and my friends had their share of tibs. The Veggie platter contained Miser Alech, Miser Wat, Shro Wat and couple of mixed vegetable curries. Miser Alech is split lentiles cooked with ginger, garlic, onions and olive oil. Miser wat is similar to alecha, with berbere sauce instead of curry and they used the yellow lentils. The Shro Wat is made of chickpeas with berbere sauce. The vegetable curries consisted of one made with beans carrots and onions in tomato sauce and other being cabbage and potato with ginger and garlic. It was the bread or injera that was most interesting as it reminded us of dosa, however it was different in taste more sour and double the size of home made dosas. Also they are not brown probably they make sure it stays white and remove from the pan before it changes the colour.
I read that the Ethiopian food is generally spicy but the food at Mekerem was milder than I expected. No complaints but probably one needs to mention the chef that Indians can stand much spicier food. It also served avacados and veggie salad for appetizers. I would definitely suggest my friends to visit this place and have a delicious meal.
Meskerem(September) is the first month of Ethiopian Calendar. I visited last month before my travel to South America. The meal at a Ethiopian restaurant works in different fashion. Generally the group of people sit in front of a platter placed at the center of a table. The platter can be mix of Vegetarian, Beef, Lamb or chicken. One eats this with ingera which is made of fermented tef, a rye-like Ethiopian grain (looks somewhat like Indian Dosa).
I being a lone Vegetarian, ordered a vegetarian platter alone and my friends had their share of tibs. The Veggie platter contained Miser Alech, Miser Wat, Shro Wat and couple of mixed vegetable curries. Miser Alech is split lentiles cooked with ginger, garlic, onions and olive oil. Miser wat is similar to alecha, with berbere sauce instead of curry and they used the yellow lentils. The Shro Wat is made of chickpeas with berbere sauce. The vegetable curries consisted of one made with beans carrots and onions in tomato sauce and other being cabbage and potato with ginger and garlic. It was the bread or injera that was most interesting as it reminded us of dosa, however it was different in taste more sour and double the size of home made dosas. Also they are not brown probably they make sure it stays white and remove from the pan before it changes the colour.
I read that the Ethiopian food is generally spicy but the food at Mekerem was milder than I expected. No complaints but probably one needs to mention the chef that Indians can stand much spicier food. It also served avacados and veggie salad for appetizers. I would definitely suggest my friends to visit this place and have a delicious meal.
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