Gulele Ethiopian Restaurant & Market Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Gulele Ethiopian Restaurant & Market, a hidden gem located in Gaithersburg, MD, where the vibrant essence of Ethiopian cuisine comes alive. The menu offers a delightful range of dishes that cater to both meat lovers and vegetarians.
- Beef Options: Indulge in the Gulele Special Kitfo, tender minced beef tartar seasoned with herbal butter, or the Beef Tibs, marinated in a chef's special sauce.
- Chicken Delights: The Chicken Doro Wot showcases tender chicken in a spicy red pepper sauce, accompanied by hard-boiled eggs—a true classic.
- Vegetarian Treats: The Gulele Combination Vegetarian Entree Sampler includes a wonderful variety of veggie dishes, perfect for sharing.
Gulele's welcoming atmosphere and generous portions ensure a satisfying experience, whether you choose to dine in or carry out. Each dish brims with authenticity, allowing you to savor the intricate flavors and spices that Ethiopian food is renowned for. Visit Gulele and let your taste buds embark on a flavorful journey!
Appeteziers
Tomato Salad
Chopped tomatoes, onions, bell peppers in a lemon and olive oil dressing.
Key Sir
Cooked beets and patato seasoned with vegetable oil,carrots, tomatoes, onions, and jalapeno pepper, mixed with a special ingredient.
Sambosa
Fried seasoned lentil salted spicy.
Red Lentil
Red lentils spiced with berbere (red pepper) sauce.
Spilt Peas
Puree of yellow split peas mixed with onions and garlic.
Cabbage with Carrots in Sauce
Cabbage, potatoes and carrots flavored with ginger and garlic.
Collard Greens
Collared greens mixed with onions and garlic.
Fosolia
Fresh green beans and fresh carrots simmered in flavorful mild sauce.
Shiro Wot
Seasoned chick pea flour cooked in mild sauce.
Gulele Combination Vegetarian Entree Sampler
Includes portions of all of the above vegetarian entrees.
Firir
Shredded injera cooked with shredded onion, tomato and berbere.
Vegeterian Platter
Beef, Chicken and Fish
Beef Tibs
Extra-lean cubes of beef marinated in our chefs special sauce.
Awaze Tibs
Tender cubed beef cooked with herbs, butter, onion, and berbere (Spicy)
Beef Zilzil Tibs
Strips of beef with chefs special sauce.
Beef Gored Gored
Extra lean chunks of beef lightly sauteed in house sauce traditionally served raw or lightly heated.
Gulele Special Kitfo
Freshly minced lean beef tartar seasoned with herbal butter and mitmita (chilli powder), ayib (cotton cheese), Gurage style gomen (Collard green), and kotcho (fase banana bread).
Kitfo Sandwich
Regular Kitfo
Freshly minced lean beef tartar seasoned with herbal butter and mitmita (chilli powder), ayib (cotton cheese), and gomen (Collard green)
Beef Key Wot, Spicy
Cubes of beef simmered in Ethiopian red pepper sauce, flavored with spice.
Beef Alicha wot
Cubes of beef prepared in puriffed butter and flavored with curry and tamarind.
Minchet Abishe Alecha Wot
Finely chopped prime beef sauteed in butter, and simmered in mild sauce with spices and fresh herbs. Mild.
Quanta Firfir
Season beef Jerky cooked with shredded onion and berbere with Ethiopian butter.
Chicken Doro Wot, Spicy
Tender chicken, red pepper sauce, spices served with hard-boiled egg.
Chicken Doro Wot
Alicha. Tender chicken, curry, spices served with hard-boiled egg.
Gulele Chicken and Beef Combination
Includes chicken doro wot, beef key wot, beef Alicha and beef tibs.
Fish Gulash
Tilapia fillet cooked with tomato sauce.
Dulet
Liver and tripe sauteed with a mixture of spices.