Traditional foods

 TRADITIONAL FOOD

A nation can express its culture in different ways. The Oromo people have many cultures and express their culture through songs, dress, weddings, food, etc.; it also announces its identity. Among these, if we take the food culture, the Oromo have a large number of traditional dishes known in specific regions.

Traditional foods are rarely prepared foods that are typically prepared only rarely. For example, Ancooteen (in the Western Oromia region) is a festive dish. This is probably because the Oromo have many cattle and get a lot of butter.

Riraa Yeast is produced by the Arsi-Oromo people in Riraa village in Oromia region of Ethiopia. They hang the cocoons on the high branches of trees such as Cordia africana, Hagenia, and Podocarpus. The body is traditionally made from a combination of bamboo, vine and straw.

The bees make this unique honey from different plants like garamba, badesa, gale, and heto. It is this biodiversity that makes Rira honey unique and of medicinal value. The honey is collected only at night between April and May, at the end of the rainy season, because African bees are very aggressive and appropriate clothing and skillful use of smoke is essential.

Camel herding is deeply rooted in the lifestyle, culture and traditions of the Karrayyuu, an ancient nomadic pastoral tribe in Ethiopia. Karrayyuu pastoralists in Fantallee district have a long tradition of consuming camel milk, camel milk products, and fresh camel milk, which along with barley has been an important food source for the tribe.