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)