DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Suqaar
Small beef cubes cooked with potato, carrot and xawaash spices.
About Suqaar
Leila and Abdullahi describe suqaar through the small beef cubes familiar to Somali butchers and households. Their published version combines beef with onion, garlic, potatoes and carrots, seasoned with xawaash and prepared vegetable seasoning.
The accompanying xawaash recipe supplies cumin, coriander, black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and turmeric. This profile follows that source-specific blend, keeping the vegetable seasoning's separate formula unresolved.
The meat and vegetables finish together in the same pot after a covered simmer. Rice is retained as one optional serving choice from the authors' alternatives, with no additional bread or restaurant-menu salad added.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Suqaar
Leila and Abdullahi's Somali beef-and-vegetable suqaar.
- Beef cubesProtein
- OnionAromatic
- GarlicAromatic
- Vegetable seasoningSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- PotatoesBase
- CarrotsBase
- Canola oilCooking medium
- WaterLiquid
- Cumin seedsSeasoning
- Coriander seedsSeasoning
- Black peppercornsSeasoning
- Cinnamon barkSeasoning
- Cardamom podsSeasoning
- Whole clovesSeasoning
- Turmeric powderSeasoning
- RiceAccompaniment · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Beef cubes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual27 beef selected over veal preference discussion20.
- Onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Garlic: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Vegetable seasoning: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual30 opaque compound, full ingredients/possible allergens unprovided.
- Potatoes: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Carrots: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Canola oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual34 vegetable-or-canola option; canola selected, no oil blend.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual35/44 boiling water, no separate stock inferred.
- Cumin seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual samepublisher Xawaash21.
- Coriander seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend22.
- Black peppercorns: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend23.
- Cinnamon bark: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend24, broad cinnamon candidate with bark form retained.
- Cardamom pods: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend25, exact species unprovided.
- Whole cloves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend26.
- Turmeric powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual blend27.
- Rice (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual21 rice serving alternative selected over soor/anjero/muufo/bread, separate prepared recipe unprovided.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
Cuisines & regions
- Somali Cuisine
- Djiboutian CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Somali CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Ethiopian Somali CuisineCatalogue link pending review