Blue Nile Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing the Menu at Blue Nile
Nestled in Houston, Blue Nile invites you to explore the rich flavors of Ethiopian cuisine, with a particular focus on vegetarian offerings. The atmosphere is both chic and intimate, perfect for a date night or a casual lunch with friends. Start your culinary journey with the crisp Timatim Salad or the savory Samossa.
- Vegetarian Dishes: Their signature Vegetarian Combination is a highlight, featuring a delightful mix of Kik Alicha, Gomen, and various lentil dishes, all bursting with spices.
- Lamb Pleasures: For meat lovers, the Blue Nile Special Tibs showcases tender lamb sautéed to perfection.
With vegan options, reusable tableware, and a welcoming ambiance, Blue Nile is an ideal choice for everyone—from families to groups of friends looking to savor authentic Ethiopian flavors.
Appetizers
Samossa
Meat or vegetarian.
Timatim Salad
Chopped fresh tomatoes, onion, hot pepper and house dressing.
Blue Nile Salad
Fresh green leaf lettuce with diced onions, bell pepper, jalapeno and tomatoes with a special Ethiopian salad dressing.
Vegetarian Combination
Combination includes a Blue Nile Salad, Kik Alicha, Gomen, Atkilt Wot, Yemissir Wot, Green Lentil, Shiro Wot
Shimbera Assa Wot
Chickpeas. It is a powder which is grounded and backed. It is cooked in berbere with oil and special spices. Vegetarian.
String Beans
It is cooked with chopped onion, Garlic and Fresh chopped tomato with oil.
Shirro Wot
Diced onion with special peas flower, herbs and spices.
Green Lentil
Green lentil cooked with oil, onion and flavored with spice.
Yemissir Wot
Red lentil stew, simmered in berbere sauce, spices, garlic, ginger, and green pepper.
Atkilt Wot
Mixed vegetables with garlic, ginger, turmeric and oil.
Gomen
Chopped collard green with fresh garlic and bell pepper cooked with oil.
Kik Alicha
Split peas cooked with oil, onion and flavored with spice.
Shirro Fitfit
Diced onions, jalapeno, bell pepper special peas flour, herbs and spices, mixed with pieces of Injera
Timatim Fitfit
Fresh tomato, olive oil, jalapeno, bell pepper special herbs and spices, mixed with pieces of Injera
Vegetarian Dishes
Lamb Dishes
Yebeg Alicha Wot
Lamb cubes cooked with special herb and spices.
Blue Nile Special Tibs
Lamb cubes sauted with onions, jalapeno peppers, tomato and special sauce.
Yebeg Key Wot
Lamb cubes cooked in berebere sauce with special herb and spices.
Yebeg Tibs
Lamb cubes sauted with slices of onions, jalapeno peppers and fresh rosemary.
Dulet
An Ethiopian delicacy - minced lamb tripe, lamb liver and lean top round meat (beef) sauteed with spiced butter, mitmita (hot pepper) and herb. Served lebleb or raw.
Fitfit
Lamb cubes in turmeric sauce with special herbs, jalapeno and spices, mixed with pieces of Injera.
Goden Tibs
Tender beef cubes and beef ribs fried with spice, hot pepper and onion.
Awaze Tibs
Beef cubes cooked in Awaze sauce with onion, fresh garlic and tomato.
Gored Gored
Tender cubes of red meat (Beef) lightly steeped with specially spiced butter and berbere sauce.
Tibs Fifit
Juicy lamb cubes mixed with pieces of injera.
Zilzil Tibs
Tender strips of beef steeped with special sauce and light sauted with slice of onions, bell pepper and Spices.
Tibs
Beef cubes sauted with slice of onions, bell pepper, jalapeno and fresh rosemary.
Blue Nile Special Kitfo
Extra lean meat (Beef)) minced and seasoned with Ethiopian spices and mitmita mixed with spiced butter.Served raw, medium rare or well done, Ayb [Ethiopian Cheese]), mixed with gomen.
Kitfo
One of the popular meal (extra lean meat (Beef)) minced and seasoned with Ethiopian spices and mitmita mixedwith spiced butter. Served raw, medium rare or well done with Ayb (Ethiopian Cheese].
Quanta Firfir
Dehydrated beef cooked in berebere, onion, special spiced butter, mixed with pieces of Injera.
Gomen Besiga
Collard green and beef cubes cooked with onion and Ethiopian spices.
Key Minchetabish with Egg
Fresh Minced beef cooked with onion, berebere and Ethiopian spices.
Bozena Shiro
Powdered peas cooked with beef cubes, onion, vegetable oil and red pepper.
Alicha Minchetabish
Fresh Minced beef cooked with onion oil, red paper and Ethiopian Spices.
Yessiga Alicha Wot
Beef cubes cooked with special herb and spices.
Yessiga Wot
Beef cubes cooked in berebere sauce with special herb and spices.
Banatu
Beef cubes in berebere sauce with special herb and spices, mixed with pieces of Injera.
Beef Dishes
Poultry
Doro Wot
The most popular meal - Chicken, in Ethiopian traditional way, cooked in berbere, onion, special spiced butter and spices.
Chicken Tibs
Chicken breast cubes gravy sauted with onions, herbs & spices.
Grilled Chicken Breast
Chicken breast cooked with onions, herbs & spices.
Shrimp Wot
Fresh Shrimp cooked with Ethiopian spices served with Injera.
Fillet of Fish
Pan Sauted pieces of fillet Fish (Tilapia) with garlic, onion & special sauce/comes with rice.
Fried Fish
Deep fried Tilapia fish served with rice and salad.
Fish Tibs
Tender cubes of fillet Fish (Tilapia) lightly steeped with garlic, onion & spices.
Fish
Beverages
Juice
Soda
Iced Tea
Ethiopian Tea
Ethiopian Traditional Family Meal
This meal includes: Kitfo, Doro Wot, Blue Nile Special Tibs, Yebeg Tibs, Yessiga Wot, Yebeg Fitfit, Zilzil Tibs, Bozena Shiro, Fillet Fish, Gomen, Ayb, Salad, Atkilt Wot. Please find descriptions listed in menu above.
Yefisik Beyayinetu
A combination of a Blue Nile Salad, String Beans, Yessiga Wot, Alicha Minchetabish, and Doro Wot.
Blue Nile Special by Mesob
Combination special includes Blue Nile Salad, Gomen, Atkilt Wot, Blue Nile Special Tibs, Alicha Minechetabish, Doro Wot.
Traditional Family Size & Combinations
Sunday Special
8 Course Sunday Special
This meal contains Quanta Firfir, Doulet, Yebeg Goden Tibs, Yebeg Key Wot, Kitfo, Gomen, Ayb, Salad. Please find descriptions listed in menu above.