Tinsaye Peanut Butter & Food Manufacture: Addis Ethiopia

Tinsaye Peanut Butter & Food Manufacture:

We go to Hirut’s home where she employs six people (herself included) in the manufacture of Peanut Butter (25-50 dozen jars a week) as well as the grinding and packaging spices and nuts.  Hirut graduated in accounting in 1992, worked in a bank for a number of years but four years ago opened her own ‘factory’ in her own home manufacturing Peanut Butter and preparing spices.  First we watch the Peanut Butter being made.   We were surprised to find how hot the Peanut Butter was coming out of the electric grinding machine.  The cover goes on immediately creating a vacuum seal as the Peanut Butter cools. We had to wait several minutes to taste it to let it cool.  Delicious!  Organic.  No added sugar, pure roasted peanuts.  The hot bottles of Peanut Butter have to be put in a water bath to cool so the jars will retain their shape. 

She also grinds and packages spices.  In the slide show, we identify and taste berbere, chico butter and Seneff Kollo:  (yegebse kolo-roasted barley mixed with chickpeas and nuts), all her own products.  Not only that, Hirut had a full meal of injera ready for us complete with Traditional Ethiopian Coffee prepared by Hirut’s mother the Ethiopian way with the little charcoal stove in the living room.  She first roasted the beans in a little frying pan, then ground them, then put many tablespoons full in the Traditional pot, bringing it to a full steam before pouring it with the pot several inches above the cup.   This was our first taste of injera and first Traditional Ethiopian Coffee made extra special because it was at Hirut’s family home! 

Enjoy the visit with us:

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