Dishes at Ethiopian Restaurants,
these is a large list of dishes, most restaurants will have only a few dishes from each category,
but if curious to test a dish you can usually arrange it by asking for a dish you see here a day or two in advance.
Dish Categories:
Wot hot/spicy, the common saucy dishes Alitcha mild version of Wot
Fitfit/Firfir wot or alitcha dishes served with pieces of injera torn of and mixed together
Tibs grilled or sautéed meats, usually lamb or beef
Atkilt/Vegetables vegetable dishes, either prepared together or separately
- Appetizers
- Azifa - lentil salad
Buticha - chickpea dip mixed with lemon juice
Difo Dabo - Ethiopian traditionally baked bread
Dirkosh - dried crispy injera
Kategna - injera with butter & chili
Kitfo Sandwich/Tiklil - kitfo dish sandwich or Injera roll
Salata - Ethiopian salad
- Sambussa - vegetarian or meat filled fried dough
- Timatim Fitfit - injera & tomatoes salad
Various Soups
- Vegetarian Dishes
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- Aterkik Alitcha -
split peas prepared with light sauce
Atkilt Wot - cabbage, carrots, potatoes simmered in sauce
Atkilt Salata - boiled potatoes, jalapeno mixed in salad dressing
Buticha - chickpea dip mixed with lemon juice
Inguday Tibs - mushroom sauteed with onions
Fasolia -
string beans and carrots sauteed in caramelized onion
Gomen - collard green cooked to perfection with spices
- Misir Wot -
pureed split red lentil are simmered berbere sauce
- Misir Alitcha - pureed split red lentil are simmered in mild sauce
Shimbra Asa -
chickpeas flour dumplings & cooked in wot
Shiro Alitcha - mild split peas are milled together
& slow cooked
Shiro Wot - split peas are milled together
and slow cooked -
- Salata - Ethiopian salad, dressing: lemon, jalapeno & spices
- Timatim Selata - tomatoes salad, onions, jalapeno & lemon juice
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- Poultry(Doro) Dishes
- Doro Alitcha -
mildly seasoned chicken served in mild sauce
- Doro Wot - national dish,
chicken & stewed in red pepper sauce
- Doro Fitfit -
doro wot mixed with pieces of injera
Doro Tibs -
cubed chicken sauteed in a special blend of spices
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- Lamb(Yebeg) Dishes
- Dullet -
chopped meat, tripe, liver seasoned with herbed butter
- Awaze Tibs -
tender lamb morsels marinated in berbere sauce
Lega Yebeg Tibs -
tender lamb morsels & sauteed to perfection
Tibs Fitfit - lamb tibs
mixed with pieces of Injera
Yebeg Wot - freshly made lamb stew served with Injera
Yebeg Alitcha -
pieces of lamb bones & meat in mild sauce
Yebeg Wot Firfir -
yebeg wot mixed in pieces of Injera
Yebeg Alitcha Fitfit - yebeg alitcha mixed in pieces of Injera
Yebeg Misto -
combination/mix of Lamb Wot & Alitcha FitFit
Gomen be Siga -
mild lamb stew prepared with collard greens
- Beef(Siga) Dishes
- Kitfo -
finely chopped prime beef seasoned with mitmita & kibe
- Special/Gurage Kitfo - kitfo mixed with collard green & ayib
- Kitfo - Jalapeno - new trend, kitfo mixed with Dullet spices
Tiré Siga - high quality raw beef, considered a delicatsey
Gored Gored -
chunked cubed beef meat mixed with awaze
Gored Gored Tibs -
gored gored sauteed with onion & jalapeno
Tibs -
prime beef sauteed with onion, tomato, garlic & jalapeno
Awaze Tibs - prime beef sauteed with hot berbere awaze sauce
Derek Tibs -
char broiled beef tender seasoned with spices
Zilzil Tibs - long strips of tender beef sauteed in purified butter
Tibs Wot - tibs dish, with extra sauce
Key Wot -
hot and spicy beef stew
Alitcha Wot - mild beef stew
Key Wot Firfir - hot & spicy beef stew mixed with injera pieces
Quanta Fitfit -
dried beef jerky in wot stew mixed with Injera
Menchet-Abesh -
chopped beef in turmeric, garlic, ginger sauce
Alitcha Menchet-Abesh - above dish prepared in mild sauce
Melasena & Sember -
beef trip & tongue in mild sauce
Cornise -
lamb wot fitfit with kitfo served with kinche on top
Gomen be Siga - mild beef stew prepared with collard greens
Bozena Shiro - shiro prepared with cubes of lean beef
- Seafood(Asa) Dishes
- Asa Tibs -
pan fried crisp fish and served with seasonal salad
- Shrimp Wot* - traditional hot sauce prepared with seafood
- Shrimp & Scallop Tibs* -
seafood sauteed with awaze & kibe
- Breakfast
- Kinche - Crushed wheat cooked & served with kibe butter
- Enqulal Fitfit - Scrambled eggs with tomatoes& jalapenos
- Enqulal be Siga - Scrambled eggs with beef
Foul - Cooked Beans mixed with tomatoes, onion & pepper
Chechebsa - Thin bread(qita) pieces served with kibe & berbere
Cornise - Mushroom sauteed with onions
- Condiments
- Awaze - paste of hot peppers containing garlic, ginger & spices
- Mitmita -
powder of hottest peppers mixed with salt and spices
- Ayib - ethiopian style
home made cottage cheese
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