 Hey guys welcome back to my youtube channel Daniel Rose here you're gonna join me in the kitchen today We're cooking up some miss or what amazing spicy Ethiopian red lentils yum Okay, the star of the show is gonna be the spice blend called Burberry fantastic stuff if you live near an Ethiopian or African store You can find it there otherwise buy it online I used two round tablespoons and it was kind of spicy if you're not such a spice fan Maybe one will be enough here. It is red in color lots of spice Next we're gonna need is our lentils I'm using red lentils here, and I always give them a good old rinse You want to give it one minute under some running water like I'm doing and then if you see any weird stuff like Rocks or coins or people that shouldn't be in lentils then just throw them out. All right next thing We're gonna need is onions. I just use one medium-sized onion some folks will use tomato paste as well I didn't bother now I live next to Ethiopians for one year neighbors and I learned a few tricks from them the key Is patience when you are frying the onions you want to give it a lot of time to get it nice and caramelized So one medium white onion finally chopped and then gather your onion age with your knife and get ready to put it in Now we're gonna go for put your instant pot onto saute mode and chuck in a good bit of oil I also noticed my Ethiopian neighbors never measured the oil. They just poured it like this So that's kind of what I do probably about two tablespoons Now we're ready to put our onions into our oil So just you know get your hand and shove them off the chopping board and put them into the instant pot This doesn't work as well as a stove. I never get that very good caramelization, but it's almost the same thing Bit of salt depending how you salt your berberi is it should be unsalted. So add salt to your taste Then you want to of course fry your your finely chopped onions in the oil And as I said before this is where you want to just chill out and let it do its thing Really don't rush this part of us but when your onions have got a nice little bit of browning on them then throw in the berberi and Here's you want to start stirring pretty quickly. You don't do not want these spices to burn They are already toasted so keep mixing keep mixing and I Give this a couple of minutes and I do the same thing for the lentils This is also something I picked up from local Ethiopian folk who live next to me for a year They would toast the lentils for like a minute alongside the berberi and the caramelized onions and in my opinion This is a big deal. This will really make a difference between Getting that really nice taste and not but you can add the water first if you feel the need to do that so here's my one cup of red lentils that I gave a rinse under and I'm just gonna mix it in here with the Onions and the berberi and make sure everything comes together nicely in the instant pot keep it off the sides and Give it a good old mix and look it's coming together pretty you can't smell this because berberi is fantastic all right, we are now ready to add the H2O the water the ratio I use is one cup of red lentils to three cups of water and it comes out perfect So do not tamper with the golden ratio of one to three you might get away with one one to two point five It'll be a bit drier, but I'd go for one to three so three cups of Mineral water tap water whatever pleases you and then make sure everything's nicely mixed together in your instant pot And then chuck on the lids and we're gonna want to of course put up the valve now I gave it ten minutes and that really gets everything nicely mixed together the onions just melt into it You can do seven if you prefer it'll just be a bit more crunching the onions Here's my spice cabinet do not come to my house in the event of the apocalypse But I do a lot of spices there all right, so our cooking is underway We have nine minutes left and here's me releasing pressure I went for a quick release because I was damn hungry when I was making this video But you can do slow release and take off the lid and here you go I had this last night at an Ethiopian restaurant, and I look pretty much like this here is our mr. Watt It's a bit like the Ethiopian equivalent of Dal. I love these chef pans I buy them from a restaurant supply store, and yeah, this is enough for one person for dinner Or two not very hungry people put it in there and keep it in the fridge there in your chef's pan But for actually plating up. I use this magnificent little bowl. I picked up in an Ethiopian store I really love the stuff that they have for sale there. This is the thing lovely isn't it and Then put your mr. Watt into this and you know two ladles fulls You'll be surprised the stuff will really fill you up now of course It's traditional to eat this with injera teff bread fermented teff bread I didn't have any so what I did was just grab an old piece of pita bread and put it on the side And that's it you use the bread as your fork and I scoop it up, and it is delicious Hope this video was good if you enjoyed it want to get more please subscribe to this YouTube channel Thank you guys for watching