Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant Menu and Prices

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Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant Menu

Last Update: 2025-03-14


Appetizers

Sambussa

$3.00

Thin dough shells stuffed with lentils, onion, hot green & herbs. This meatless dish is lightly deep fried in vegetable oil to a golden perfection

House Salad

$4.50

Crisp green salad topped with green pepper tomato, onion in an authentic house dressing


Vegetarian

Gomen Kitfo

$13.50

Chopped collard greens made for perfection with herb butter served with zeni's home made special cheese iyeb

Yemisir Wot

$10.50

Pureed split red lentil are simmered in zeni's own spicy, hot berbere sauce

Kik Alitcha

$10.50

Split yellow piece made with onion, garlic, ginger, and turmeric. Mild

Atakilt Wot

$10.50

A delicious vegetable: boiled chopped cabbage, sliced carrots, and potato chunks, simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, and vegetable oil

Gomen Wot

$10.50

Chopped collard greens simmered in a mild sauce of oil, onion and herbs

Shuro Wot

$11.50

Roasted and powdered chick peas, Shuro are simmered in our unique, hot and spicy berbere sauce with vegetable oil

Ye Timatim Fitfit

$9.50

Pieces of injera tossed in blended fresh tomato, onions, green pepper mixed with zeni's own home made dressing

Foule

$10.50

Cooked beans mixed with fresh tomato, green pepper, spice and home made cheese iybe. Prepared with a choice of oil or butter. Served with fresh bread

Vegetarian Combo

$13.50

A combination of ye-miser wot ,ye-kik alitcha, atakelt wot, ye-gomen wot, ye timatim fitfit

Misir Kitfo

$10.50

Pureed lentil mixed with mitmita, purified seasoned butter and herbs


Poultry

Ye Doro Wot

$12.99

A drumstick or thigh cooked to tenderness in a hot & thick red pepper, onions, garlic, ginger & purified butter sauce. Served with a hard boiled egg and home made cheese

Ye Doro Tibs

$12.99

Boneless, skinless cubed chicken sauteed in a special blend of spices and braised in onions tomato, green pepper and purified butter. Served hot or mild


Lamb

Ye Beg Tibs

$13.50

Succulent pieces of fresh lamb sauteed in butter seasoned with onions, green pepper, tomato and rosemary. Served juicy or fried

Dulet

$12.99

Chopped red meat, tripe, and liver seasoned with herbed purified butter, spiced chili powder mitmita. Served row, mild or well done

Gomen Besiga

$13.50

Lamb with bone cooked with collar green, herbed butter, garlic, ginger, onions, and green pepper

Ye Beg Firfir

$12.99

Piece of lamb with bones cooked in mild green pepper sauce, mixed with pieces of injera before being served


Beef

Kitfo

$12.50

Ethiopian steak tartar, from selected lean round steak, seasoned with purified & herbed butter sauce & hot-spiced chili powder mitmita. Served raw, mild or well done with home made cheese

Bozena Shiro

$12.50

Zeni's highly seasoned milled chick peas simmered in berbere sauce with selected cubes of lean beef served in a deest a traditional pot

Gored Gored

$12.00

Lean cubed beef simmered in a blend of red pepper and herbed butter. Gored is served raw or rare, and served with awaze

Zilzil Tibs

$12.00

Strip of tender beef sauteed in purified butter, seasoned with onions, green pepper, fresh rosemary

Ye Bere Tibs

$12.00

Chunks of lean beef sauteed with onions, tomato, and green pepper and purified butter. Served mild or spicy

Kei Wot

$11.00

Hot and spicy beef stew. Very lean chopped beef simmered in a hot and thick berbere sauce and purified herbed butter, with exotic spices added

Alicha Wot

$11.00

Mild and spicy beef stew, extra lean chopped beef simmered in mild sauce with spicy butter, onion, garlic, ginger and turmeric

Firfir

$12.50

Injera moistened with deliciously tender cubed beef simmered to perfection in berbere sauce, flavored with garlic, and ethiopian spices


Breakfast

Scrambled Eggs

$9.50

Scrambled eggs with onions, jalapenos and fresh tomatoes

Egg & Meat

$10.50

Scrambled eggs with ground beef, onions jalapenos, and fresh tomatoes


Combination

Meat Combination

$14.50

A combination of alitcha fitfit, doro wot, or key wot and beef Kitfo, home made cheese


Zini's SpecialitiesAll entrees are served with injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was a thousand years ago and zeni's house salad

Yedoro Kitfo

$12.50

Boneless, skinless ground chicken, seasoned with purified & herbed butter sauce & hot-spiced chili powder mitmita. Served cooked

Kiyet Kitfo

$13.50

Beef kitfo cooked, raw or rare mixed with gomen kitfo and home made cheese

Special Kitfo

$13.50

Beef Kitfo cooked, raw or rare, mixed with home made cheese

Goden Tibs

$13.50

Giblets sauteed in butter seasoned with onion, black pepper, green peppers & rosemary. served saturdays & sundays

Tibs Firfir - Yebere

$12.00

Chunks of lean beef sauteed with onions, tomato, green pepper and purified butter tossed in berbere sauce with injera along with our exotic spices

Tibs Firfir - Yebeg

$12.99

Chunks of lean lamb sauteed with onions, tomato, and green pepper and purified butter tossed in berbere sauce with injera along with our exotic spices

Yebeg Kikil Kenemerequ

$12.99

Pieces of lamb with bones cooked in mild green pepper and turmeric sauce, seasoned with onions, garlic herbs and spices


Side Orders

Shiro Wot

$5.75

Gomen Wot

$5.25

Miser Wot

$5.25

Kik Alitcha

$5.25

Atakilt Wot

$5.25

Iyeb

$3.50

Seneg Qaria

$2.00


Ethiopian Coffee

Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony

Price may varies

Zeni restaurant prepares and serves Ethiopian coffee with its full ceremony. Please order an hour in advance.


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