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Eritrean Shiro

Name: Eritrean Shiro
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Eritrea
Ingredients: 80g Chickpea flour; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato; 2 cloves Garlic; 2 tsp Berbere spice blend; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil; 1 tsp Salt; 500ml Water

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Chickpea flour simmered with spices and tomato — Eritrea's everyday bean dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Shiro is chickpea or fava bean flour mixed with spices and simmered creamy with onion, tomato, and oil, the most-eaten home dish in Eritrea. It's essential on Orthodox fasting days. It's poured onto injera and eaten by hand.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At lunch in an Eritrean home, bean paste bubbling in a black clay pot is poured onto injera.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chickpea flour 80g
Onion 1
Tomato 1
Garlic 2 cloves
Berbere spice blend 2 tsp
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 500ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Sauté the chopped onion in oil.
Add the garlic, chopped tomato, and berbere and sauté 5 minutes.
Add water and bring to a boil.
Add the chickpea flour a little at a time, stirring so no lumps form.
Simmer on low for 15 minutes until creamy and season with salt.

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