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Muqmad

Name: Muqmad
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Djibouti
Ingredients: 500g Beef; 100g Butter; 1 Onion; 3 cloves Garlic; 4 pods Cardamom; 1 tsp Cumin powder; 1 tsp Salt; 3 tbsp Vegetable oil

Main Dish

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Beef cut small, fried, and preserved in spiced butter — preserved meat of Djibouti and Somalia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Muqmad is a traditional preserved food of Somali nomads: beef or camel meat is cut small, dried, fried, and stored in butter (ghee) scented with cardamom and garlic. It keeps for months and is eaten when traveling or on celebration days. It's also often eaten for breakfast with bread and tea.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning in a Djiboutian home, small pieces of brown meat are lifted from butter and set out with flatbread and sweet tea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef 500g
Butter 100g
Onion 1
Garlic 3 cloves
Cardamom 4 pods
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable oil 3 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the beef into 1cm cubes, toss with salt, and dry in a 120°C oven for 1 hour.
Heat oil in a frying pan and shallow-fry the meat until crisp.
Melt the butter in a pot and add the chopped onion, garlic, crushed cardamom, and cumin until fragrant.
Add the meat, mix, and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
Transfer to a clean container so the meat is covered with butter, and store.

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