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Zigni

Name: Zigni
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eritrea
Ingredients: 500g Beef; 2 Onion; 2 tbsp Berbere spice blend; 2 Tomato; 1 tbsp Tomato paste; 3 cloves Garlic; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; 300ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Beef stewed with berbere and tomato — Eritrea's spicy home stew.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Zigni is Eritrea's most-eaten meat stew: beef or lamb is stewed hot with lots of onion, tomato, and berbere. It's eaten on injera torn by hand, and thanks to the Italian colonial period, also with bread or pasta.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in an Asmara home, red, spicy beef stew is spooned onto a big round injera.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef 500g
Onion 2
Berbere spice blend 2 tbsp
Tomato 2
Tomato paste 1 tbsp
Garlic 3 cloves
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cook the chopped onions without oil for 20 minutes, then add oil.
Add the berbere and garlic and fry.
Add the chopped tomatoes and tomato paste and simmer 10 minutes.
Add the small pieces of beef, water, and salt and stew 40 minutes.
Serve with injera or bread.

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