Red Lentils in a Spicy Tomato Sauce (Ye'misser Wot Be'timatim)

A "wot" — or "wat" — is a traditional Ethiopian stew made with meat or vegetables and seasoned oil and served with injera, a spongy fermented flatbread made from the small Ethiopian grain called teff that has a nutty and somewhat sour taste. In this wot, ideally suited to vegetarians, the meat is replaced with cooked lentils, and the usually pre-prepared seasoned oil is replaced with olive oil in which onion and various spices are cooked briefly before adding the remaining ingredients for a quick version of the "ye’qimem zeyet" seasoned oil that is a staple of Ethiopian cooking. This recipe is slightly adapted from Kittee Burns' most informative and excellent book Teff Love: Adventures in Vegan Ethiopian Cooking, which is all...

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