East African Bean Dishes

Cookbooks:

(CCC) Sitole: Cooking from Cape to Cairo

(IBK) Hassan: In Bibi’s Kitchen

Comoros

  • Sweet pea soup with coconut and ginger (IBK, 🔗1)
  • Ambrevades au curry (green pigeon peas) (IBK, 🔗1)

Eritrea

  • Shiro (IBK)
  • Shahan ful (IBK, ATC)
  • Hilbet (🔗1)
  • Tsebhi Birsen (red lentils) (🔗1 🔗2)
  • ሽሮ Tsebhi shiro (dry green peas) (🔗1 🔗2)

Ethiopia

  • (ERT) Gebreyesus: Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa
  • (EEC) Mesfin: Exotic Ethiopian Cooking: Society, Culture, Hospitality, and Traditions
  • (ATC) Fessehatsion & Peterson: Auntie Tsehai Cooks: A Guide to Making Authentic Ethiopian and Eritrean Cuisine
Fava/Chickpea/Pea Flour
  • Yebaqela duqet (fava flour) (EEC)
  • Mit-in shiro (spiced powdered chickpeas, lentils, peas, beans) (EEC, ERT)
  • Bozena shiro (mit-in shiro sauce, beef) (ATC)
  • Nech’ shiro (mild powdered peas, beans, chickpeas) (EEC)
  • Yeshiro alich’a (mild sauce from nech’ shiro)
  • Yeshimbra dabbo (fermented chickpea flour bread) (EEC)
  • Yeshimbra dabbe (chickpea flour pancake) (EEC)
  • Yeshimbra assa (fish-shaped chickpea flour) (EEC, ATC)
  • Shiro wat (ERT, EEC, ATC)
  • But’echa (chickpea flour paste) (EEC, ATC)
  • Yeqwant’a shiro (dried beef, mit-in shiro) (EEC)
  • Infirfir shiro (pea flour paste) (EEC)
  • Doyyo (pea flour sauce, meat)
  • Yeshimbra kitfo (chickpea flour flatbread) (EEC)
  • Yeshiro fitfit (pea flour and injera) (EEC, ATC)
  • Yemitad shiro (ATC)
Peas
  • Aterkek Alecha (vegetable stew with split peas) (CCC)
  • Ater wat fitfit (yellow peas) (ERT)
  • Ater kik alicha (yellow split peas) (ERT)
  • Yet’ift’ire we’t (cotton seeds, split peas) (EEC)
  • Yedifin ater alich’a (whole dried pea sauce) (EEC)
  • Ye’ater fitfit (whole dried peas and injera) (EEC)
Fava Beans
  • Ful (ERT)
  • Ilbet (fava beans, sunflower seeds) (EEC)
  • Gulban (flour, split fava) (EEC)
  • Yebaqela kik we’t (split fava sauce) (EEC)
  • Yebaqela fitfit (fava beans and injera) (EEC)
  • Yebaqela siljo (fava bean paste) (EEC)
Red Lentils
  • Azifa (lentil salad) (ERT, EEC)
  • Yekik alich’a (red lentil or green split pea sauce) (EEC)
  • Yemisir kik we’t (split lentil sauce) (EEC, ATC)
  • Yemisir alicha (mild split lentil sauce) (EEC, ATC)
  • Yekik we’t (red lentil sauce) (EEC)
  • Yemisir shorba (lentil soup) (EEC)
Brown Lentils
  • Misir alicha (ATC)
  • Misir gomen limosh (greens) (ATC)
  • Sambusa (lentil wraps) (ATC)
  • Azifa (lentil salad) (ATC)
Peanuts
  • Kolo (barley, peanuts) (ERT)
Chickpeas
  • Yeshimbra fitfit (chickpeas and injera) (EEC)
  • Humus (EEC)
  • Ater betelba (sauce with flax) (ATC)
  • Ater fitfit (injera) (ATC)
Split Chickpeas
  • Ater alicha (mild sauce) (ATC)
Kidney Beans
  • Yeadengware shorba (kidney bean soup) (EEC)

Gambela

  • Kupe (kidney bean, okra, corn flour) (Komo people) (ERT)
  • Misr wat (ERT)

Lalibela

  • Shimbra wat (chickpeas) (ERT)

Kenya

  • (EKK) Plancherel: Explore the Kenyan Kitchen
  • Mataha (pea corn and potato mash) (CCC)
  • Kunde (black-eyed peas, peanut sauce) (IBK)
  • Viazi karai (potatoes, chickpea flour) (EKK)
  • Maharagwe (kidney beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)
Kikuyu
  • Githeri (Kikuyu) (corn, beans) (🔗1)
  • Mukimo (green split peas) (IBK)
  • Kimitu (beans, potatoes)
  • Irio (beans/peas, corn, potatoes) (🔗1 🔗2)
Maasai
  • Njahi (black hyacinth beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)
Swahili
  • Uji wa kunde (red cowpeas, coconut milk) (🔗1)
  • Borohowa La Pojo (🔗1)
  • Borohowa la Nazi (🔗1)
  • Mbaazi za Nazi (🔗1)
  • Kachori za Pojo (🔗1)
  • Bajia (🔗1)

Madagascar

  • (MS) Donenfeld: Mankafy Sakafo
  • Tsaramaso Malagasy (IBK, 🔗1)
  • Bonbonvoanjo (peanut brittle) (MS)
  • Tsaramaso Malagasy (white beans) (MS)
  • Tsaramaso sy Voanio (coconut milk, red beans) (MS)
  • Kabaro

Mauritius

  • Cari Gros Pois et Viande (lima bean and meat curry) (🔗1 🔗2)

Mozambique

  • Feijoada (🔗1 🔗2)
  • Mucapata (🔗1 🔗2)
  • Matapa (🔗1)

Rwanda

  • Ibiharage (🔗1)
  • Kawunga (🔗1 🔗2)

Somalia

  • Xawaash Somali Food Blog
  • فول مدمس Fuul (fava) (🔗1)
  • عَمْبُولُو Cambuulo (🔗1)
  • Digir (adzuki) 🔗1 / Maraq Digir 🔗1
  • Baajiye (black-eyed peas) 🔗1
  • سلطة الفول والحمص Insalaaddo Digir (whole fava, chickpeas) (🔗1)

South Sudan

  • Taste of South Sudan
  • Ful medames (🔗1)
  • Kidney beans 🔗1
  • Spinach with peanut butter 🔗1
  • Tegiri with peanut butter 🔗1
  • Royoroyo 🔗1
  • Nyete greens with peanut butter 🔗1
  • Boiled peanuts 🔗1
  • Addas (red lentil) 🔗1
  • Salata aswad 🔗1

Tanzania

  • Matoke with spinach (pink beans) (IBK)
  • Maharagwe ya nazi (kidney beans, coconut milk) (🔗1)
  • Kashata (peanut brittle) (🔗1 🔗2)
  • Mchicha (peanut and amaranth greens curry) (🔗1 🔗2)

Dar-es-Salaam

  • Chana bateta (chickpea potato curry) (🔗1)

Zanzibar

  • Urojo / Zanzibar Mix 🔗1 🔗2

Uganda

  • Katogo (bananas, beans) (🔗1)
  • Matoke with beans (🔗1)
  • Bean stew (🔗1)
  • G-nut sauce (peanuts) (🔗1)
  • Mushroom g-nut luwombo (or chicken or fish) (🔗1 🔗2)
  • Chaloko (pinto beans) (🔗1)
  • Apena Ongaho (pigeon peas, shea butter) (🔗1)

Northern Uganda

  • Dek ngor (yellow split peas) (🔗1)
  • Malakwang and sweet potatoes (peanut) (🔗1)

Western Uganda

  • Firinda (🔗1)
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