Spice Blends & Basics
Silsiስልሲ
Tomato and onion cooked down with berbere — the base a dozen quick dishes start from
- Prep
- 10 minutes
- Cook
- 30 minutes
- Serves
- 6
- Region
- National
Ingredients
6 servings
Method
Cook the onions in a dry pan for 8 minutes until they collapse
Add the oil and cook another 8 minutes, to a deep gold
Stir in the berbere and cook 2 minutes
Add the garlic and ginger and cook 1 minute
Add the tomatoes and the water and simmer 12 to 15 minutes
It is ready when the oil comes back up to the surface and sits there in a red film
Season with the salt
Photographs
From the kitchen
Silsi is a base, not a finished dish. It becomes firfir, it dresses ful, it goes under eggs and it stretches a small amount of anything
Wait for the oil to separate at the end. That is the signal that the tomato has actually cooked out rather than just gone hot
Make a double batch. It keeps a week refrigerated and it is the difference between a fifteen-minute breakfast and an hour
Vegan as written, and the fastest way to make a fasting morning taste of something
Tags
- sauce
- vegan
- base
- make-ahead
Per serving
- Calories
- 150
- Protein
- 2g
- Carbohydrate
- 10g
- Fat
- 12g
Estimates. They shift with how you make it and what you make it with.
Suitable for
- vegan
- gluten-free
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