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Tere Sigaጥሬ ሥጋ

Raw beef cut at the table and eaten with awaze, mitmita and gomen kitfo

Prep
20 minutes
Cook
No cooking
Serves
4
Region
National

Ingredients

Make

4 servings

Method

  1. Buy the meat the morning you will eat it, from a butcher who knows you are eating it raw. This is the whole recipe and everything else is arrangement

  2. Keep it refrigerated and covered until the moment it goes to the table

  3. Trim off every trace of fat, sinew and silverskin

  4. Cut it into a few large pieces rather than slices, so it stays cold and people cut their own at the table

  5. Put the awaze and the mitmita into small dishes, and the melted niter kibbeh into a third

  6. Lay the meat on an injera with the dishes around it, the gomen kitfo to one side and the chillies beside that

  7. Each person cuts a piece, drags it through awaze or dips it in mitmita, and eats it with a fold of injera

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From the kitchen

  • Raw beef carries a real risk. Buy from a butcher who knows the meat is for tere siga, eat it the day it was slaughtered, and keep it cold the entire time in between

  • Do not serve it to anyone pregnant, elderly, very young, or with a weakened immune system. In Ethiopia this is common sense rather than a rule, but it is worth writing down

  • Fillet and top round are the cuts. Anything with sinew running through it is unpleasant to eat raw

  • Cold meat, room-temperature awaze. Serving the meat at room temperature is both less safe and less good

Tags

  • raw
  • traditional
  • festive
  • beef

Per serving

Calories
300
Protein
36g
Carbohydrate
2g
Fat
16g

Estimates. They shift with how you make it and what you make it with.

Suitable for

  • gluten-free

Contains

  • dairy

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