Injera Bread – 100% Teff Flour #Breadbakers

Injera Fun Facts :-

Most of the Ethiopian restaurants in America do not make a 100% Teff flour Injera!  Most of the times, barley, sorghum or wheat flour are added to the Injera sourdough.

Traditional Injera is made from the flour of a grain called Teff.

Teff is Naturally gluten free and It is also an Ancient Grain.

Injera is cooked on a griddle fitted with a dome shaped lid called the Mitad. You can make it on a cast iron skillet and cover with a lid.

It serves as the utensil to eat. You basically tear a portion out and use that to scoop wot, farmer’s cheese, Shiro, Azifa, Gomen, Tibs , Alicha etc. All those are placed on top a injera and you eat with your hands.

It is not unusual to feed the person next to you with your hands. In fact it is encouraged.

I fermented my Teff flour with a mix of whey and yeast. I gave it 2 days for it to ferment thinking if I do Anything more and we would have an unpleasant sour tasting bread.  I should have let it stay in for another day. Although I am not super happy with the texture of the bread , the flavors were good.  I am leaving a recipe for the process I followed, but I will soon update how longer fermentation helped or did not help with the texture.

This month’s BreadBakers’ theme is Ancient Grains, hosted by Robin at A Shaggy Dough Story. Ancient grains are generally accepted to mean grains that have remained largely unchanged/un-hybridized over the last several hundred years, which means NO MODERN WHEAT. Here’s what our creative bakers came up with.

• Ancient 4 Grain Breakfast Bread from Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Ancient Grain Carrot Bread from The Schizo Chef
• Barley Flour Donut Muffins from I Camp in my Kitchen
• Blueberry Peach Quinoa Oatmeal Muffins from Magnolia Days
• Buckwheat Savoury Pancakes from Mayuri’s Jikoni
• Dimbleby’s Breastfeeding Bread from Food Lust People Love
• Eggless Sorghum and Pearl Millet Banana Muffins (Eggless Jowar and Bajra Banana Muffins) from G’Gina’s Kitchenette
• Foxtail Millet Bagels from Cooking Club
• Garlic Cheesy Einkorn Crackers from The Wimpy Vegetarian
• Injera Bread from Spiceroots
• Little Millet Banana Bread from Sara’s Tasty Buds
• Millet Idli from Gayathri’s Cook Spot
• Quinoa Banana Bread from Wholistic Woman
• Seeded Spelt Boules from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Spelt and Buckwheat Soda Bread from A Shaggy Dough Story
• Spelt and Einkorn Sourdough with Caramelized Onions from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Spelt Bread from Hostess at Heart
• Spelt Sweet Potato Paratha from Cook’s Hideout
• Teff Crepes with Spinach and Mushrooms from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Yeasted Jowar Naan from Sneha’s Recipe

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.

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Injera Bread – 100% Teff Flour #Breadbakers

Course bread

Cuisine Ethiopian

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Servings 12 injera

Ingredients

• 2 cups teff flour
• 1 C teff flour For adding later
• 2 cups water
• 1 C whey from yogurt
• 1/2 tsp yeast
• 1/2 tsp salt
• A little oil/ ghee to coat the pan

Instructions

1. Stir together 2 Cups of teff flour and whey and water in a non reactive bowl/ glass jar. Add in the yeast and mix to combine.
2. Cover with a lid and leave in a dark closet for at least 24 hours.
3. Check the mixture for a risen, cracked, or bubbly surface which will tell you that your batter is ready.
4. When you are ready to make Injera, add the salt and and the remaining 1 C teff flour. Add water to make a pourable batter - like the pancakes and let it rest for another 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Heat a griddle/ pan to medium heat and lightly coat with oil. Pour about 1/2 to 3/4 C of the batter into the pan until the entire surface is evenly covered, about ¼” thick. Cover with a lid and cook for 2- 3 minutes. Cook only on one side without flipping it over.
6. Slide the injera out of the pan with a spatula and repeat the process using the rest of the batter.

Recipe Notes

The bread takes anywhere from 24 hours to 3 days to ferment. That time is not included in the prep time.

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