Ethiopia: Doro Wat (chicken stew)
Preparation: 2 hours (with a 3 month old strapped to my front) Cook time: 4 hours on high in the slow-cooker Serves: 4 Serve with: Ethiopian Greens , Stewed lentils (Mesir Wat ) and Injera Olivier's: ★★★ The stew was nice, but after commenting that I could "smell through time" to Olivier during the preparation, it was a bit disappointingly bland. I suspect there are several reasons for this, the first being that I didn't have a lot of the spices as seeds, only as powders. It's possible that grinding them after toasting might have improved the flavour a bit. Secondly, I didn't have enough smoked paprika (a kitchen travesty), so we almost certainly lost some flavour there. I also wondered if it was because we ate the stew on the same day of cooking it, but, it hadn't improved much by lunch today. It even looks a bit sad. Contributing to the disappointment was the sheer amount of preparation that went into it a...