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Berbere cooking paste
berbere-paste · aromatic · Ethiopian
About
An Ethiopian / Eritrean spice paste or blend component used in stews and sautés. Heat and spice mix vary by household.
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Berbere is foundational in Ethiopian and Eritrean cookery. A single canonical formula is not claimed.
Sources
- General Horn of Africa spice teaching
Skill ladder
- L1 Berbere cooking paste · this page
- L2 Bloomed berbere paste
- L3 Restaurant berbere paste
Uses
- Niter kibbeh 40 g
- Diced onion 250 g
- Berbere 25 g
- Minced garlic 15 g
- Minced ginger 15 g
- Tomato paste 30 g
- Salt 4 g
Preparations used
Used in
- Doro wat dish
- Advanced Doro wat dish
- Classic Doro wat dish
- Firfir dish
- Advanced Firfir dish
- Classic Firfir dish
- Gomen besiga dish
- Advanced Gomen besiga dish
- Classic Gomen besiga dish
- Bayenetu on advanced injera dish
- Misir wot dish
- Advanced Misir wot dish
- Classic Misir wot dish
- Shiro dish
Similar in this layer
- Restaurant berbere paste 0.94
- Bloomed berbere paste 0.94
- Advanced feijoada base 0.63
- Classic feijoada base 0.63
- Brown mirepoix 0.57
- Onion-tomato curry base 0.56
- Criollo sofrito 0.55
- Matignon mirepoix 0.54
Full raw-ingredient roll-up
Secondary view: every leaf ingredient with its path.
- 250.0 g Yellow onionpath berbere-paste → diced-onion → yellow-onion
- 37.3 g Unsalted butterpath berbere-paste → niter-kibbeh → clarified-spiced-butter → unsalted-butter
- 30.0 g Tomato pastepath berbere-paste → tomato-paste
- 25.0 g Berberepath berbere-paste → berbere
- 15.0 g Garlicpath berbere-paste → minced-garlic → garlic
- 15.0 g Fresh gingerpath berbere-paste → minced-ginger → ginger
- 4.0 g Saltpath berbere-paste → salt
- 1.2 g Fresh gingerpath berbere-paste → niter-kibbeh → clarified-spiced-butter → ginger
- 1.0 g Garlicpath berbere-paste → niter-kibbeh → clarified-spiced-butter → garlic
- 0.2 g Green cardamompath berbere-paste → niter-kibbeh → clarified-spiced-butter → cardamom
- 0.2 g Ground cinnamonpath berbere-paste → niter-kibbeh → clarified-spiced-butter → cinnamon