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Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant
176 Temple St
New Haven, CT 06510
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Main Menu
Appetizers
Yemisir Sambusa
$4.95
pastry stuffed with spiced lentils
Yesiga Sambusa
$4.95
pastry stuffed with spiced ground beef
Yedoro Sambusa
$4.95
pastry stuffed with spiced chicken
Selata
$4.95
tomato salad with house dressing
Key Sir Selata
$4.95
beets, potatoes, carrots, shallots and green pepper with house dressing
Timatim Fitfit
$4.95
tomatoes, shallots and green peppers in house dressing mixed with injera
Senge Karya
$4.95
two long hot peppers stuffed with sauteed fresh tomatoes,
onions, garlic & shallots. served with injera
Yater Fitfit
$5.50
dried peas slowly cooked with fresh garlic, ginger roots & spices,
mixed with injera & garnished with long hot peppers. served chilled
Chicken
Doro Tibs
$12.75
chicken fried with onions, rosemary and pepper. served with awaze (bat pepper paste) & iniera.
Doro Wat
$13.75
chicken cooked in butter 8: sauteed onions, seasoned with garlic, fresh ginger, berbere & herbs, & slowly simmered until tender
Doro Alicha
$12.95
tender chicken cooked as above, hut in a mild sauce.
Beef
Kitfo
$13.95
ethiopian version of steak tartare.finely chopped prime beef seasoned with mitmita, purified butter and ethiopian spices, served with homemade cottage cheese.when available
Siga Wat
$12.95
cubed prime beef cooked in onions, ginger, garlic, purified butter and berbere
Siga Alicha
$11.95
cubed beef sauteed in butter, turmeric, garlic, fresh ginger and white pepper.
Gored Gored
$14.75
very lean beef marinated in red wine & rosemary, then sauteed in spiced butter with onions and garlic.served with awaze.bat pepper paste.
Special Tibs
$14.95
tender tip pieces of beef sauteed with seasoned butter & fresh tomatoes, cooked with green peppers & red onions, with a much of rosemary and other spices.
Atkilit Besiga
$12.95
cubes of tenderloin beef, potatoes & carrots sauteed in a mild sauce and garnished with green peppers.
Lamb
Yebeg Kikil
$14.95
succulent iamb cooked to perfection in herb butter & seasoned with a special blend of spices
Yebeg Wat
$14.95
lamb cooked in garlic. onions & green peppers.
Zilbo Gomen
$13.95
collard greens and tender pieces of lamb seasoned with onions and green peppers.
Yebeg Tibs
$14.95
lamb sauteed in purified butter and seasoned with onions & green peppers.
Seafood
Shrimp Wat
$14.25
shrimp sauteed in garlic and purified butter, in a spicy sauce.
Shrimp Alicha
$13.95
shrimp sauteed with garlic & purified butter, in a mild sauce
Yasa Wat
$12.95
chunks of filleted white fish cooked in berbere and herb sauce.
vegetarian & vegan
Yemisir Wat
$10.95
lentils slowly cooked in a flavorful berbere sauce
with a blend of spices.
Ater Kik
$10.95
yellow split peas cooked in a specially flavored mild sauce
Fosolia
$11.95
green beans, carrots & onions sauteed in a blend of
exotic herbs.
Gomen
$11.95
cabbage slowly cooked in a flavorful mild sauce with
a blend of spices.
Misir Alicha
$10.95
green lentils slowly cooked in a flavorful mild sauce with
a blend of spices
Shuro
$11.95
highly seasoned chick peas in a berbere sauce
Tikel Gomen
$10.95
cabbage cooked in vegetable oil, onions, fresh garlic,
ginger roots, & a blend of spices & potatoes.
Kosta
$11.95
spinach & potatoes slowly cooked in a blend of mild spices
Zucchini
$10.95
green squash, carrots & onions sauteed in a blend of exotic herbs.
Denich Wat
$11.95
potatoes cooked with tomatoes & garlic in a berbere sauce
Vegetarian/Vegan Combination
choice of four different dishes from the above entrees
- For One Person $13.00
- For Each Additional Person $12.00
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About Us
Lalibela, which opened in 1999, serves a collection of home-cooked Ethiopian dishes, many reminiscent in spicing and presentation to Indian curries. Its current chef-owner, Shilmat Tessema, took over the kitchen a little over a year ago. She retained the brief menu as she found it, preparing the dishes as she learned in Ethiopia, and occasionally compromising authenticity for her American audience, replacing bone-in with boneless chicken, for example. Vegetables and legumes are prominent in the cuisine, and Lalibela offers both meat and vegetarian dishes.The centerpiece of an Ethiopian meal is injera, a flatbread that looks like a large, thin, spongy crepe. Traditionally made with ground teff (a grain native to Ethiopia) and served at room temperature, injera has a fermented taste that grows on you, even if its charms are not immediately apparent. In a phone conversation, Ms. Tessema told me that in New Haven she has had to adapt her injera recipe, by adding a percentage of wheat flour, to get the right texture.