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Kilishi

Name: Kilishi
Total time: 240 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 500g (in one piece) Beef Round; 4 tbsp Peanut butter; 1 knob Ginger; 1/2 Onion; 1 tsp Chili powder; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tsp Sugar; 3 tbsp Water

Snack

⏱ 240 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Thinly sliced beef dried, brushed with peanut-spice paste, and toasted — Niger's dried meat.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kilishi is dried meat made in Niger and northern Nigeria: beef is sliced very thin and sun-dried, brushed with a paste of ground peanuts, chili, ginger, and onion, dried again, and toasted over fire. It keeps well and is popular as travel food and a souvenir.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Nigerien market, thin reddish-brown sheets of dried meat hang like blinds and are sold wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef Round 500g (in one piece)
Peanut butter 4 tbsp
Ginger 1 knob
Onion 1/2
Chili powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Water 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Partially freeze the beef and slice 2–3mm thick.
Sprinkle with salt and dry in a 100°C oven for 1.5 hours.
Mix the grated ginger and onion, peanut butter, chili powder, sugar, and water into a paste.
Brush a thin layer of paste on both sides of the meat and dry in a 100°C oven for another hour.
Finally toast at 230°C for 2–3 minutes until fragrant.

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