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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