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Tej

Ethiopian honey wine — a simple fermented drink made from honey and gesho (hops leaf), mildly alcoholic.

Total time
10 min
Prep
10 min
Cook
0 min
Difficulty
easy
Cuisine
Ethiopian
Vegan

Ingredients

500ghoney
2Lwater
50ggesho (dried buckthorn hops) or 20g dried hop flowers

Instructions

1

Dissolve honey in warm water in a clean jar.

2

Add gesho. Cover loosely with cloth.

3

Ferment at room temperature 3–5 days, stirring daily.

4

Taste on day 3 — it should be mildly fizzy and faintly bitter.

5

Strain and refrigerate. Serve in berele glasses.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
380
Protein
0.4g
Fat
0g
Carbs
103g
Fiber
0.3g
Sodium
5mg

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