{"id":273567,"date":"2019-04-19T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiECII7e70__nX8vrWhL6dqlQqEwgEKgwIACoFCAowgXQw4Awwky8?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:42","slug":"niter-kibbeh-ethiopias-spiced-clarified-butter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273567","title":{"rendered":"Niter kibbeh: Ethiopia\u2019s spiced clarified butter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saveur published a kitchen guide to <strong>niter kibbeh<\/strong>, Ethiopia\u2019s spiced clarified butter, drawing on chef Yohanis Gebreyesus\u2019s recipes steeped with cardamom, fenugreek, nigella, and herbs.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-274269\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ethiopian-Easter-Holiday-wishes-from-Addis-Ababa-residents-1.jpg?fit=465%2C361&ssl=1\" alt=\"Niter kibbeh: Ethiopia\u2019s spiced clarified butter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clarifying butter and simmering spices turns a perishable fat into a fragrant cooking oil for doro wat, tibs, kitfo, and everyday stews. Diaspora cooks and home kitchens treat it as infrastructure, not garnish.<\/p>\n<p>Recipe journalism is cultural documentation. It carries Ethiopian flavor systems into readers who only meet the country through conflict headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Kept beside the Easter feast feature, niter kibbeh is the quiet engine of many celebrated plates. Spice, patience, and butter still tell a national story without a podium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saveur.com\/ethiopian-spiced-clarified-butter-recipe\">Saveur<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Spiced Clarified Butter (Niter Kibbeh) Recipe&nbsp;&nbsp;Saveur DailyWhole warming spices are steeped in warm clarified butter for drizzling over Ethiopian meats and stews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":274269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ethiopian-Easter-Holiday-wishes-from-Addis-Ababa-residents-1.jpg?fit=465%2C361&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600860,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273567\/revisions\/600860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}