Zighini – East African recipe

The video recipe of the Zighinì, one of the main dishes of the cuisine of Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia. A unique and complete dish as served on injera bread shapes with the chicken or beef stew, cooked vegetables and pulses and fresh salad.
To eat this dish you can use a spoon and your hands, since Eritrea's restaurants the cutlery are not part of the service.
Meat stew is cooked with tomatoes, onions and a spice mixture called berberè, made with chilies, ginger, cloves, coriander, allspice, Ruta graveolens and Ammi. As a side dish with this dish, to put on top of the injera, the ideal is to prepare spinach, or alternatively coasts, and legumes, such as beans and lentils.