Asmara Menu (2025 Update)
Welcome to Asmara, the heart of Eritrean cuisine nestled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This charming restaurant offers a menu alive with flavor, showcasing an array of dishes that delight the senses. Notable highlights include the Sega Bebaynetu, a generous meat combination that features boneless chicken, spicy lamb, and sautéed beef, served alongside a delightful vegetable stew and lentils for just $26.95. Vegetarians will love the Ahimilti Bebaynetu, bursting with vibrant flavors.
The atmosphere at Asmara is warm and inviting, adorned with cultural decor that enhances your dining experience. Patrons rave about the homemade Mes (Ethiopian honey wine), which pairs beautifully with any meal. Whether you choose to dine in the traditional manner, sharing from a basket of injera, or at a standard table, the ambiance sets the perfect backdrop for a memorable meal. Come savor the rich culinary tapestry of Eritrea, where every dish tells a story.
Salads (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
23. Tomato Salad
Chopped tomato, onions, and green chilies seasoned in fresh lemon, olive oil, pepper, and vinaigrette dressing.
25. House Salad
Feta cheese, tomato, and chopped onions in virgin olive oil house dressing.
24. Asmara Potato Salad
Chopped potato mixed with chopped parsley, green pepper, and seasoned in olive oil, fresh lemons, pepper, and garlic.
4. Stuffed Green Peppers
Whole green pepper stuffed with spiced ground beef.
5. Ajibo Berebere
Cottage cheese with a slightly fermented pepper sauce.
6. Salata Fitfit
Chopped tomato, onions, and green chilies seasoned in a house dressing and soaked with pieces of injera.
1. Spicy Chicken Wings
3. Spinach With Ricotta
2. Stuffed Tomato
Whole tomato stuffed with spiced rice.
Extra Injeria
Our Traditional Bread. Injeria comes with all meals. If you like more, it’s served per piece. One piece is a circular, medium plate size.
Appetizers
Vegetarian Entree (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
20. Hamli
Collard greens or kale curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce.
22. Shuro
Powdered and highly seasoned chick peas stewed in a pepper sauce.
19. Tikil Gomen
Cabbage, carrots, and potatoes stewed in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce.
21. Bersen
Lentils curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce.
18. Timtimo
Yellow split peas curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce.
1. Boneless Chicken
Boneless chicken marinated in garlic and different herbs and curried in fresh tomato and red pepper sauce stew or mild yellow sauce stew.
Poultry (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
House Specialties (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
13. Zighny Fitfit
Pieces of injera soaked in a spicy or mild beef stew.
10. Jumbo Shrimp Spicy
15. Sega Bebaynetu (Per Person)
Meat combination- boneless chicken, spicy lamb, sauteed beef, and mild vegetable stew, mild lentils and a house special salad.
14. Derho Fitfit
Pieces of injera soaked in a mild or spicy chicken sauce.
16. Ahimilti Bebaynetu (Per Person)
Vegetable Combination - Cabbage, yellow split peas, spinach, chick peas, lentils, and tomtato salad.
11. Salmon Filet Spicy
Salmon fillets curried in pepper sauce.
12. Scallop Spicy
Scallops curried in pepper sauce.
9. Asmara Tibsy
Tender beef cubes sauteed in spiced butter, onions, green peppers, and chilies.
17. Alitcha Ahmilti
Vegetable stew made from a mixture of cauliflower, carrots, mushrooms, green peppers, string beans, and potato curried in yellow sauce.
3. Begeeh Mloukhiya
Tender lamb mixed with high fiber jute plant and curried with red pepper sauce.
4. Alitcha Begeeh - Yebeg Alitcha
Lamb curried in a mild yellow sauce.
Lamb (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
Beef (Eritrean / Ethiopian Dishes)
5. Fluy Tibsy - Liyu Tibs
Spicy. Cubes of tenderloin tips gently sauteed in our chef's special sauce.
6. Minchet Abish
Choice lean ground beef curried in red pepper sauce.
8. Kitfo
Kitfo is traditionally served raw, like steak tartar. The butter has special spicy herbs that give kitfo its distinct flavor
7. Gored Gored
Cubes of tenderloin beef tips served raw with spiced and lightly fermented pepper paste.