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Fah-Fah

Name: Fah-Fah
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Djibouti
Ingredients: 600g (bone-in) Lamb; 2 Potato; 1 Carrot; 1/4 Cabbage; 1 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 2 Chili pepper; 1 bunch Cilantro; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 2 tsp Salt; 1.5L Water

Soup

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Goat and vegetables simmered with chili — Djibouti's spicy soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fah-fah is Djibouti's signature soup: goat or lamb is stewed with carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and onion, seasoned with chili, cilantro, and garlic. Spicy and warming, it's eaten with torn flatbread (lahoh) dipped in. It's a staple of Djibouti's eateries.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an eatery in Djibouti's port town, flatbread is torn and dipped into a steaming bowl of spicy meat soup.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Lamb 600g (bone-in)
Potato 2
Carrot 1
Cabbage 1/4
Onion 1
Garlic 3 cloves
Chili pepper 2
Cilantro 1 bunch
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Salt 2 tsp
Water 1.5L

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put the meat and water in a pot and simmer 1 hour, skimming the scum.
Pound the garlic, chili, and half the cilantro into a paste.
Add the vegetables cut large, the paste, cumin, and salt and simmer 30 minutes.
Turn off the heat when the vegetables are tender.
Scatter with the remaining cilantro.

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