
πͺπΉ EthiopiaCatalog recipe
Freshly minced beef warmed through spiced butter and mitmita chili, served with ayib cheese and greens β Ethiopia's answer to tartare, but warmer and braver.
For 4 servings.
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Melt the butter gently with cardamom and half the mitmita β do not brown it.
Fold the warm spiced butter through the minced beef with the rest of the mitmita.
Serve tere (rare) or warm it gently to leb leb β never fried.
π‘ Use butcher-fresh beef minced that day; kitfo has no tolerance for shortcuts.
Plate with ayib and gomen, and scoop everything with injera.
Kitfo comes from the Gurage people, served rare ('tere') by tradition and 'leb leb' β barely warmed β for the cautious. Food TV and TikTok treat it as a dare; Ethiopians treat it as a delicacy with rules.
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