We met some friends for dinner at a restaurant we had never been to. The friends we met there have been there several times and LOVE it. We were excited to try something new.
So the restaurant is Ethiopian. Lalibela is on the Northeast corner of Saddle Creek and Cass.
We have never had anything like it.
This was what we ordered, the Vegetarian Delight.
It's different flavors of split lentils cooked in red pepper sauce with spices, fresh spinach steamed with garlic, onion, green pepper and olive oil and other steamed vegetables like cabbage and carrots.
The bread that it's on is injera sourdough flatbread made with fermented teff flour (which is high in fiber and iron providing protein and calcium ~ it is similar to millet and quinoa, but the seed is much smaller and cooks much faster). It had such a cool texture. Very rubbery and almost like a sea sponge. Ethiopians eat exclusively with their right hands, using a piece of injera to pick up bites of the entree. There was no silverware to be seen in the restaurant, but I'm sure they had it upon request. We jumped right in with our hands (after washing of course)! It was fun and different and not as messy as I thought it would be.
We also got Ethiopian Spiced Hot Tea (I forgot to take a picture). It's FREE and delicious!!!
The whole dinner was a VERY reasonably priced. The Vegetarian platter we got was $12 and we split it and it was definitely enough to fill us both up.
You should give it a try. We will definitely be back.
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