slightly pureed yellow split peas simmered in a mild sauce of onion, herbs and spices.
Yemisir Watt
$8.50
pureed lentils are simmered in meskerem's own spicy, hot berbere sauce.
Tikil Gomen
$8.75
sliced cabbage, carrots and potato chunks, cooked to perfection in a mild sauce.
Misir Azifa
$7.00
pureed lentis are served next to a rare combination of finely chopped onions and green chillies mixed in vinaigrette sauce.
Gomen Watt
$8.75
chopped collard greens simmered in our unique, hot and spicy berber sauce.
Shurro Watt
$8.50
seasoned milled chick peas (shurro) are simmered in our unique, hot and spicy berbere sauce.
Vegetariab Messob
a combination of vegetarian dishes arranged on a platter and served with tomato and potato salads.
One Person$11.00
Two Persons:$21.00
Three Or More Persons(per person)$10.25
Seafood
Shrimp Watt
$11.95
shrimp sauteed in meskerem's unique, hot and spicy berber sauce.
Shrimp Alitcha
$11.95
shrimp sauteed in a mild and flavorful onion and herb sauce.
Shrimp Tibb S
$12.25
shrimp sauteed with chilli, awaze, onion and seasoned butter.
Shrimp Atkilt
$11.95
shrimp cooked with string beans, carrots and cauliflower in mild meskerem sauce
Assa Watt
$12.95
a hearty platter of shrimp, scallops and fillet of fish sauteed in meskerem's special sauce.
Meskerem Specialty
At Meskerem We Served Food the Traditional Way:
affordable Prices and Generous Portions. to Continue with This Tradition, We Would Like Our Patrons to Order An Entree Per Perso
Meskerem Messob
a dazzling array of beef, chicken, and lamb with vegetarian dishes, arranged on our large serving tray
One Person:$11.95
Two People$23.00
Three Or More People:(per person)$11.25
Meskerem Tibbs
$11.50
tender chopped lamb sauteed to perfection wit oinion, green chilli, seasoned butter and herbs
Kitfo
$10.45
freshly minced, very lean beef mixed with mitmita and butter, kitfo, a specialty of the gurage people of central ethiopia, is served raw, like steak tartar, or lebleb (very rare). the butter has a special herb (koseret) that gives kitfo its flavor
Gored Gored
morsels of choice lean beef dipped in "awaze", a traditional sauce of milled pepper thickened with honey wine, butter and spices. gored gored is served raw or very rare.
Entrees-Poultry
Yedor Watt
$9.75
a drumstick and thigh cooked to tenderness in a hot and thick berbere sauce. served in ethiopian style with hard boiled egg
Yedor Alitcha
$9.75
this mild version of yedor watt features a drumstick and thigh simmered to perfection in a mild thick sauce and served with a hard boiled egg.
Yedor Fitfit
$9.75
pieces of meskerem's traditional injera soked in one of the above poultry dishes
Entree-Lamb
Yebeg Kay Watt
$10.25
succulent lamb meat cooked to tenderness in hot and thick berbere sauce.
Yebeg Alitcha
$10.25
succulentt lamb meat cooked in a mild and distinctly flavorful sauce.
Yebeg Fitfit
$10.25
pieces of mekerem's traditional injera soaked in one of the above lamb dishes.
Sigana Atkilt
$10.00
lamb meat slowly cooked with string beans, carrots and potatoes in a mild sauce.
Zilbo
$10.00
morsels of lamb, collard greens, and potato in specialty seasoned mild sauce.
Entrees-Beef
Meskerem's Authentic Injera Is Made From Premium Teff, a Cereal Grain Unique to Ethiopia. Or Whole Wheat Fermented to Perfection. Please Let Your Sever Know Which Injera You Prefer to Be Serve
Kay Watt
$11.00
very lean chopped beef, simmered in hot and thick berbere sauce
Alitcha Watt
$11.00
extra lean chopped beef, simmered in a mild and flavorful onion and herb sauce
Special Tibbs
cubes of choice lean beef, sauteed in special, spicy sauce
Zilzil Tibbs
$11.95
strips of choice lean beef, sauteed in butter, onion and herbs.
Bozena Shurro
$10.50
meskerem's highly seasoned milled chick peas (shurro) is simmered in berbere sauce with cubes of lean beef.
Salad
Tomato Salad
$5.00
diced tomatoes tossed with onions and green chilli on a dressing of olive oil and lemon
Mekerem Salad
feta cheese, tomato, lettuce and olive oil in meskerem's house dressing of olive oil and lemon
Small$5.00
Regular$6.50
Ethiopian Potato Salad
$5.00
diced potato, green chilli in meskerem's house dressing
Kay Seer Salad
$5.00
chopped beets, potatoes, onion and chilli pepper in house dressing
Sinigg Karia
$5.00
chilli pepper stuffed with seasoned onion and herbs
Appetizers
Sambusa
thin dough shells are stuffed with a balanced blend of minced beef, green chili and herbs.
this dish is lightyly deep-fried in vegetable oil
to a golden perfection
Beef$3.75
Chicken$3.75
Vegetarian Sambusa
this meatless alternative features a masterful compliation or vegetables with green chioli, onion and herbs
Lentil$3.50
Collard Green and Potato$3.50
Cabbage, Potato and Carrots$3.50
Shrimp
$5.75
large fresh shrimp are steamed, then served with meskerem's piquant sauce