Time Cafe & Market - Alexandria, VA

Vegetable pastry shell filled with whole lentil, onions, and jalapeno pepper.

Chopped fresh tomatoes, with lettuce, green peppers, onions, olive oil and vinegar

Powdered chickpeas slow cooked in various sauce with vegetable oil or Ethiopian seasoned butter

Shiro wot is made from chickpea and broad bean flour, mixed with garlic and onions, and made into a thick, almost paste like substance. The chickpeas give the stew a beautiful texture and nutty flavor. It’s very smooth and spreadable, almost the consistency of a thickened pureed soup

Split lentil cooked with vegetable oil, onions, berbere (hot chili pepper spice mixture) and flavored spice.

Crushed wheat cooked to tender, seasoned with Ethiopian butter and Mitmita

Chopped fresh tomatoes, with lettuce, green peppers, onions, olive oil and vinegar

Spicy stew tossed with injera cooked with either vegetable oil or clarified Ethiopian style butter

Ethiopian style crushed Fava beans mixed with feta cheese, garnished with fresh onion, jalapeno pepper, sour cream, and fresh tomato, served with toasted bread.-slices

Vegetable pastry shell filled with whole lentil, onions, and jalapeno pepper.

Powdered chickpeas (Shiro) slow cooked in various sauces tossed with shredded injera

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String beans and carrot, cooked in tomato sauce with in-house seasoning

Ethiopia inners

Ethiopian style crushed Fava beans mixed with feta cheese, garnished with fresh onion, jalapeno pepper, sour cream, and fresh tomato, served with toasted bread.-slices

Dehydrated striped tender beef cooked with hot pepper and sauce mixed with injera

Carefully cleaned lamb tripe, and liver mixed with lean red meat diced onion, garlic, jalapeño and mitmita ሚጥሚጣ with Ethiopian herbal…

Scrambled egg with tomato, onion, jalapeno served with French bread or injera

Thin breaded (kita) broken into thin pieces and friend up with Ethiopian butter and with a hint hot spices (berbere) for flavoring.

Kinche, scrambled eggs, firfer, and chechebsa.

Crushed wheat cooked to tender, seasoned with Ethiopian butter and Mitmita

Spicy stew tossed with injera cooked with either vegetable oil or clarified Ethiopian style butter

Lean beef or lamb diced and cooked in a special mild sauce, Ethiopian herbal butter, onion, tomato, garlic, and sauteed with shredded Injera.

In-house tomato sauce mixed with egg

With meat or tomato ቲማቲም sauce served with bread

With meat or tomato sauce served with bread

Shiro wot is made from chickpea and broad bean flour, mixed with garlic and onions, and made into a thick, almost paste like substance. The chickpeas give the stew a beautiful texture and nutty flavor. It’s very smooth and spreadable, almost the consistency of a thickened pureed soup

Lamb or Beef meat soup with potato, carrot, jalapeno, onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and lamb/beef bones that is slowly cooked to get all the flavors from the bones

Ethiopian style crushed Fava beans with scrambled egg mixed with feta cheese, garnished with fresh onion, jalapeno pepper, sour cream, and fresh tomato, served with toasted bread.-slices

In-house tomato sauce mixed with egg and meat

Powdered chickpeas (Shiro) slow cooked in various sauces tossed with shredded injera

Special Firfir topped with kitfo (raw, medium or well done), and ayib cheese (for 2 or more persons)

Spicy split lentil (misir wot), split lentils (alecha misir), yellow peas (kik wot), collard greens (gomen), cabbage (tikil gomen), potato stew (dinich wot), green beans, chickpea stew (shiro), Injera soaked in tomatoes (timatim fitfit). Served with Injera

Powdered chickpeas slow cooked in various sauce with vegetable oil or Ethiopian seasoned butter

Powdered chickpeas and beef cooked into a sauce with onion, garlic, and Green pepper.

Freshly miced extra lean beef tartar mixed with our in-house purified herbal butter, mitmita, and cardamom.

Carefully cleaned lamb tripe, and liver mixed with lean red meat diced onion, garlic, jalapeño and mitmita ሚጥሚጣ with Ethiopian herbal…

Chunk cubed meat (beef) mixed with homemade awaze sauce, diced onion, jalapeno, Cardamon, mitmita, and our herbal butter.

Kitfo served in a 6′ sliced french bread. (ordered raw, medium, or well done).

Lean beef or lamb diced and cooked in a special mild sauce, Ethiopian herbal butter, onion, tomato, garlic, and sauteed with shredded Injera.

Tender lamb cubes marinated with peppers, red onions, ginger, garlic, tomatoes, and spices sauteed to perfection (served with injera and/or bread)

Diced lamb, onions, garlic, turmeric (erd), Ethiopian herbal butter (kibe), ginger, and jalapeño. Served with Injera

Beef mixed with awaze and sauteed with jalapeno, onion, and purified Ethiopian butter

Tenderloin meat sauteed with in-house seasoned purified butter, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger

Lean beef or lamb diced and cooked in a special mild sauce, Ethiopian herbal butter, onion, tomato and garlic.

Medium rare beef chunks cooked with fresh herbs, spices, onions and jalapeno peppers.

Lean beef or lamb diced and sautéed with onion, garlic, tomato, and Ethiopian herbal butter and jalapeño slowly cooked (well done) with special spices. Served with Injera or bread

With meat or tomato ቲማቲም sauce served with bread

With meat or tomato sauce served with bread

Shiro wot is made from chickpea and broad bean flour, mixed with garlic and onions, and made into a thick, almost paste like substance. The chickpeas give the stew a beautiful texture and nutty flavor. It’s very smooth and spreadable, almost the consistency of a thickened pureed soup

Freshly minced lean ground beef tartar mixed with Ethiopian herbal butter (ቂቤ), cardamom (ኮረሪማ), spicy chili powder (ሚጥሚጣ). Served with regular or spicy Ethiopian cheese (አይብ), collard greens (ጎመን), kocho or Injera, of your choice

Lamb or Beef meat soup with potato, carrot, jalapeno, onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and lamb/beef bones that is slowly cooked to get all the flavors from the bones

Split lentil cooked with vegetable oil, onions, berbere (hot chili pepper spice mixture) and flavored spice.

Combination of Raw Meat and Tibs, Or Kitfo and Tibs (for 2 or more persons)

Chunk of tilapia fish sauteed with tomatoes, and in-house seasoning. Served with injera or Bread

Minced tilapia fish sauteed with in-house seasonings (Garlic, ginger, mitimita, and jalapeno)

Freshly minced lean beef tartar mixed with special Ethiopian style cheese (አይብ)

Marbled cuts of beef are slow-cooked in a mild onion sauce with chopped Ethiopian style collard greens and garlic

Tender chunks of beef marinated and simmered in berbere (በርበሬ), garlic, ginger, and onion; and served with Injera

Spicy chicken stew; chicken drum sticks, slowly cooked in minced onions, fresh garlic and ginger with berbere በርበሬ (Ethiopian hot spice made with red chili peppers) sauce.

Dehydrated striped tender beef cooked with hot pepper and sauce mixed with injera

Freshly minced lean ground beef tartar mixed with Ethiopian herbal butter (ቂቤ), Cardamom (ኮረሪማ), spicy chili powder (ሚጥሚጣ) and mixed with Ethiopian cheese (አይብ).

Minced tilapia fish sauteed with in-house seasonings (Garlic, ginger, mitimita, and jalapeno)

Chunk of tilapia fish sauteed with tomatoes, and in-house seasoning. Served with injera or Bread