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Tsire

Name: Tsire
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Niger
Ingredients: 500g Beef Round; 80g Peanuts; 1 tsp Chili powder; 1 knob Ginger; 1/2 tsp Garlic powder; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; 1/2 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 1 Onion; 1 Tomato

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Beef coated in peanut-spice powder and grilled over charcoal — Niger's night-time skewers.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tsire are Hausa skewers: thinly sliced beef is coated generously with a powder of ground peanuts, chili, ginger, and salt and grilled over charcoal. Grilled in the smoke of Niamey's night stalls, they're sold wrapped in paper with raw onion and tomato.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Niamey night stall, skewers lined up over charcoal send up smoke as spice-coated meat is wrapped in paper with onions.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Beef Round 500g
Peanuts 80g
Chili powder 1 tsp
Ginger 1 knob
Garlic powder 1/2 tsp
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Onion 1
Tomato 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the peanuts, grind finely in a blender, and mix with the chili, garlic powder, stock powder, and salt.
Slice the beef thinly and rub in the grated ginger and oil.
Coat with half the spice powder and thread onto skewers.
Grill over charcoal or under a fish grill for 5 minutes per side.
Coat with the remaining powder and serve with sliced onion and tomato.

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