Iab - Ethiopian Fresh Cheese
Recipe: #26539
July 14, 2017
Categories: Side Dishes, Cheese, Cottage, Lemon, African, 5 Ingredients Or Less, 5-Minute Prep, One-Pot Meal, Gluten-Free, High Protein, Low Carbohydrate, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Yogurt, Kosher Dairy, more
"Iab (sometimes spelled aiyb or ayib) is a fresh cheese similar to cottage cheese. It's cooling flavor is the perfect foil for many spicy Ethiopian dishes. Iab is often served as the finish to an Ethiopian meal. The original recipe calls for just plain yogurt, but I prefer to use Greek yogurt or Labneh because it is thicker and gives a much better texture to the finished product."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (70.4 g)
- Calories 62.6
- Total Fat - 2.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 1 g
- Cholesterol - 10.1 mg
- Sodium - 209.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 2.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.1 g
- Sugars - 1.9 g
- Protein - 7.4 g
- Calcium - 59.4 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place the cottage cheese, yogurt, and lemon juice in a large bowl and use a wooden spoon to stir together and lightly mash the cheese curds. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Step 2
Serve as a side dish or as the final course to an Ethiopian meal.
Tips
No special items needed.