Nile Ethiopian Restaurant - WASHINGTON, DC 20012 (Menu & Order Online)

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APPETIZERS

Lentil salad seasoned with herbs and spices. Served with a slice of homemade Ethiopian traditional bread.

2. Beef Sambusa

Thin dough shells stuffed with a balanced blend of minced beef, green chili, and herbs deep-fried in vegetable oil to golden perfection.

3. Vegetables Sambusa

Thin dough shells stuffed with lentils, onions, hot green, herbs, and deep-fried in vegetable oil to golden perfection.

Crisp romaine lettuce topped with green pepper, tomato, and onion in authentic house dressing.

5. Timatim Fitfit

Tomato salad mixed with pieces of injera.

VEGETARIAN ENTRÉES

1. Mitten Shiro

Ground chickpeas cooked with fresh garlic and herbs.

Lentils prepared in a special blend of Ethiopian spices.

Yellow split peas prepared with turmeric sauce.

Collard greens simmered with garlic, onion, and jalapeños.

A delicious mix of fresh vegetables simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, fresh herbs, and Ethiopian spices.

A salad of green lentils, onion, chopped jalapeño pepper seasoned with ginger, garlic, pepper, lemon, and mustard seed.

7. Timatim Fit Fit

Tomato, onion, jalapeño pepper, lemon, black pepper combined with spices and mixed with injera.

8. Timatim Selata

Ethiopian-style salad with tomatoes, onions, and jalapeño pepper mixed with lemon and Ethiopian spices.

9. Vegetarian Sampler 1

9. Vegetarian Sampler 1 with Fish

10. Vegetarian Sampler 2

Miser Wot, Gomen, Miser Azifa, Timatim Selata, Alicha Wot, Shiro, and Atakilt.

10. Vegetarian Sampler 2 with Fish

Miser Wot, Gomen, Miser Azifa, Timatim Selata, Alicha Wot, Shiro, and Atakilt.

Whole croaker fish (head removed) pan-fried Ethiopian style, seasoned with assorted spices.

Salad With Fish

Spaghetti With Tuna

Spaghetti Wuth Meat Sauce

Spaghetti With Tomatao Sauce

Tsom Veggie Special

Tsom Veggie Special With Fish

Veggie Speacial With Fish

Fish With Salad

Spaghetti With Salad

MANAGER SPECIAL

1. Dullet, Kitfo, Geba Weta, Timatim Salad

TIBS ENTRÉES - LAMB & BEEF

1. Nile Special Tibs (Beef)

Tender beef cubes marinated and sautéed with onion, tomatoes, a pinch of fresh garlic, ginger, awaze, jalapeños, and our seasoned butter.

1. Nile Special Tibs (Lamb)

Tender lamb cubes marinated and sautéed with onion, tomatoes, a pinch of fresh garlic, ginger, awaze, jalapeños, and our seasoned butter.

2. Lega Tibs (Beef)

Tender cubes of beef sautéed in flavored butter with onion, rosemary, tomatoes, green jalapeños, and other Ethiopian seasonings.

2. Lega Tibs (Lamb)

Tender cubes of lamb sautéed in flavored butter with onion, rosemary, tomatoes, green jalapeños, and other Ethiopian seasonings.

3. Derek Tibs (Beef)

Cubed tender beef sautéed until well done with rosemary.

3. Derek Tibs (Lamb)

Cubed tender lamb sautéed until well done with rosemary.

4. Tibs Fitfit (Beef)

Cubed tender beef marinated and cooked with tomato, garlic, and berbere sauce mixed with injera pieces.

4. Tibs Fitfit (Lamb)

Cubed tender lamb marinated and cooked with tomato, garlic, and berbere sauce mixed with injera pieces.

5. Zil Zil Tibs (House Specialty)

Long strips of tender beef marinated in sauce and seasoned with a touch of garlic, onion, black pepper, and rosemary charcoal broiled to perfection.

FITFIT FIRFIR & WOT ENTRÉES

Fresh lamb stew made with berbere sauce, onion, flavored butter, garlic, and a blend of spices.

7. Yebeg Alicha Wot

Lamb stew made with mild turmeric sauce.

Fresh lamb made with flavored butter, onion, green pepper, garlic, ginger, and other spices mixed with pieces of injera.

9. Gomen Besiga

A mild dish of lamb stew prepared with collard greens, flavored butter, garlic, ginger, onions, and green pepper.

10. Key Minchet Abish

Finely chopped lean beef fried in a pan with garlic, ginger, onion, cardamom, and white pepper until golden then cooked in hot berbere sauce and other spices.

11. Alicha Minchet Abish

Prepared in a mild sauce.

12. Quanta Firfir

Spiced dried beef cooked in a red pepper stew with onions, garlic, tomatoes, then mixed with pieces of injera.

Tender chicken leg or thigh marinated, sautéed in seasoned butter, and stewed in red pepper sauce flavored with onions, garlic, ginger root, and other spices served with a hard-boiled egg.

14. Doro Fitfit

Doro Wot mixed with pieces of injera.

Boneless, skinless cubed chicken sautéed in a special blend of spices and braised in onions, tomato, green pepper, and purified butter.

16. Bozena Shiro

Spicy stew of yellow split peas and chopped beef simmered in berbere sauce with onion, garlic, ginger, and blend of other spices.

Yebeg Alicha Fitfit

Doro & Minchet Habish

KITFO GORED GORED & COMBINATIONS

18. Gored Gored

Extra tender raw chunks of beef rolled in a special blend of herbed butter and Ethiopian spices and served on injera.

Freshly minced extra lean beef seasoned with mitmita spiced chili powder, other spices, and herbed butter sauce.

20. Kitfo Dullet

Freshly minced extra lean beef seasoned with mitmita spiced chili powder, other spices, and herbed butter sauce mixed with diced garlic, jalapeño, and onion.

21. Special Kitfo

Kitfo served with homemade cottage cheese and cottage cheese mixed with finely chopped collard greens made with a blend of spices.

22. Kitfo Sandwich

Yebeg Wot and Michet Abish.

Yebeg Wot, Michet Abish, and Nile special Tibs.

Yebeg Wot and Yebeg Alicha Wot, Nile special Tibs, and Kifto.

Yebeg Wot and Yebeg Alicha Wot, Nile special Tibs, Kifto, and Doro Wot.

25. Make Your Own Combination

Special Kitfo With Kotcho

COLD & HOT BEVERAGES

Mango, orange, or cranberry.

Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, club soda, or ginger ale.

Happy Hour Beer

Happy Hour Wine

Happy Hour Alochol

Johnney Walker (Black)

Johnney Walker (Red)

Happy Hours Whisky

Special Event

Breakfast

Enqulal Sandwich

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