Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A thin, round traditionally Ethiopian flatbread prepared by fermenting batter made from teff flour and cooking it on a griddle, usually eaten by placing servings of accompanying dishes on top of one flatbread and breaking off pieces of another to scoop up bite-sized morsels.

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  • noun A pancake-like bread made from fermented teff flour, a traditional food of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, and the Nuer people of Sudan.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Amharic ənjära; perhaps akin to gaggärä, to bake bread.]

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Tigrinya እንጀራ (ʾ‌ənğära)

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Examples

  • It’s all served on a big ol’ flatbread called injera, which is used as a utensil they give you regular silverware too.

    In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Aster’s Kitchen 2008

  • Those and just about everything else on the menu are eaten with the multipurpose Ethiopian flatbread called injera, which resembles a spongy beige crepe and smacks pleasingly of sourdough.

    A different take on Ethiopian For starters, it's in the Atlas District 2010

  • One uses the spongy, crepe-like material called injera as an implement to pick up pieces of any of the stews or sauces.

    FOOD: Nyala (Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles) Ron Buckmire 2006

  • One uses the spongy, crepe-like material called injera as an implement to pick up pieces of any of the stews or sauces.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Ron Buckmire 2006

  • Teff is most often made into the spongy flatbread called injera, which unlike most breads stays soft and chewy for several days.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Teff is most often made into the spongy flatbread called injera, which unlike most breads stays soft and chewy for several days.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Grain is ground to flour (traditionally, stones are used for grinding) which may be used in the preparation of an Ethiopian bread (known as injera in Ethiopia and anjera by the Boran), porridge and cakes.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Surely there is romance and intimacy in the handling of food, such as the Ethiopian habit of eating we't (meat or vegetables in hot pepper sauce) without cutlery, scooping it up with an edible tablecloth of a flatbread called injera instead.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Craig Butcher 2010

  • Surely there is romance and intimacy in the handling of food, such as the Ethiopian habit of eating we't (meat or vegetables in hot pepper sauce) without cutlery, scooping it up with an edible tablecloth of a flatbread called injera instead.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk Craig Butcher 2010

  • Ethiopian Flatbread (also known as injera from Ethiopia)

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

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  • "Perhaps what decided them was the sight of one of the volunteer ladies wobbling through the mud with the invalids' food piled up in plastic boxes in two clean pails. In each box could be seen voluptuous folds of good injera made with pure teff, and out of the folds bulged thick yellow shiro."

    - 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.

    September 1, 2008