Your doing wot?

I've decided to make wot. And, in the words of the great Chesterton, "Anything worth doing, is worth doing badly," I set out on my quest. Wot is an ethiopean stew that is often filled with things like hard boiled eggs, chicken, or just about anything.
Step 1: prep the beans. This involved 2 cups of garbonzos with water in the pressure cooker. Boil, let stand until the pressure drops. Then I added more water and 1.5 C of lentils and repeated the boil, let stand, allow the pressure to drop... No matter what I do, I seem to be left with somewhat unpleasantly al dente garbonzos until they have become leftovers.
Step 2: make some Berbere. Berbere (which my iPad keeps capitalizing) is a blend of spice used in the southern mediterranean regions. I roughly imitated a recipe I found here http://www.cyber-kitchen.com/recipes/Berbere_Spice_Mix.htm but only roughly--I abhor measuring in the kitchen, which makes me a lousy baker. I thought for a moment that all was ruined because I had no Cardamom. Oh, but I did.





I had to hull them. I mixed cinnamon, coriander, paprika, cardamom, turmeric, garlic, cumin, red and black pepper, ginger (incidentally, the iPad keeps capitalizing Ginger as though this were that kind of blog...) and whatever else I could salvage from the spice cabinet.






Step 3: sauté the onions with garlic and about a Tbsp of Berbere.
Step 4: mix together and cook. I added more water, a cup of tomato sauce and two more T of berbere and salt. I tasted it and let it simmer.
Step 5: at the last minute, I decided to add some chicken to flesh out some flavors and textures. So I took two rock hard absolutely frozen chicken breasts and added them to the pressure cooker, resealed it, and cooked the whole thing in there for a 25 minutes. I then pulled The chicken using two forks to shred it.
Step 6: things remembered. There had been another Berbere mix that I had looked up that called for a bitter herb indigenous to Africa. So I chopped some arugula and added that. It's bitter and an herb.





The verdict... Pretty good.

2 C dry garbanzos
2 C dried lentils
1.5 onions
3 cloves garlic
Berbere spice mix (paprika, chili, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander, pepper, garlic, turmeric, Ginger, allspice, red pepper, black pepper)
2 chicken breasts or a number of chicken legs or parts (just throw them in the pot and cook or just skip the chicken and go veg)
1 C arugula
Salt to taste