Does Somalia have a cuisine? What truly is "Somali Food"?

[Bandit]

By this logic anything with tomatoes can't be considered Italian and anything with potatoes can't be European.

stop being stupid. there is a difference between ingridients and original dishes. pizza for example is an original italian dish even if some of the ingredients originated outside the country. however, almost everything that somalis eat is a dish that originated in a different culture. baasto was introduced to us by the italians. caanjeelo by the habash. saambus by the hindi. and so on. sure we changed it up somewhat and gave it our own spin. but they were still dishes created by other thats we adopted.

First of all the person you arguing with is right op used example like pasta and rice as some invention when their clearly ingredients.
and second stop with this somalis didn't invent their own food yes they got some from other people but me and few other posters on this thread showed examples of different food created by somalis

[Idman702]

What is Cambabur?

Fried dough...

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

[SummerRain]

Quraac aa ba kA sidaran...sound like quraac as in breakfast

Fried dough is just Bur or bur saliid for me.

[Bandit]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

Suuqaar and maraq are practically the same

[MaliPrince]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

everything you named is shit that was created in the last 30-40 years or so. I talked to my parents a few years ago about what they used to eat growing up in northern somalia in the 1950s and they said ALL they had to eat was caano geel iyo hilib ari. NOTHING ELSE. isku dhexkaris and all this other shit is stuff that was created when we all moved down to xamar and encountered talyanika iyo dadka kale that lived there.

in the miyi, where 90% of somalis originate, caano geel iyo hilib ari are the only "somali foods" if you wanna call them foods.

[RoobleAlWaliid]

My own Somali people arguing about Cuisine, walle we have reached a new low.

[SonofANomad]

This is embarrasing you guys no nothing about somali culture or our indegenous food!

let me educate you guys

Breakfast (Quraac pronounced Kura'a) is an important meal amongst Somalis and often consists of a traditional bread that's in between a pancake and Hot cross buns (see photo). It is similar to Ethiopia and Eritrea's injera. In the South it is known as Anjeero and in the north Lahoh.

This one is called Beer iyo basal (Liver and onions) and is one of the most beloved Somali breakfasts of all time

Basbuusa (Basbousa)

Meeso (Meso)



Baalbaalo (Balbalow)

Popular only in Southern Somalia - Maraq Moos bukiini (Somali Plantain Stew)

Somali sponge cake and Halwa (xalwo, xalwaad) - one of the most popular Somali sweets

Lamb stew, anjero can be survived as lunch. In this photo it comes with Somali salad (onsalaato) and Somali chilli (siigni).

Suqaar Digaag (Cubed Chicken stew)

[SonofANomad]

Somali Fried Biscuits (Buskud Goos Goos)


Bariis iyo hilib! Traditionally we would it with goat meat or camel meat



They serve authentic somali food in resturants as well as the foods that are influenced by others.



See we do have our own aunthic food! but its great that we have diversity in our dishes adopted from others

This is what makes somali cusine so unique with this blend!

[Thuganomics]

Arabikhi(Galley) with caano.Garow with caano and Shuuro with caano.That's about it

[gedo_gurl]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

Suuqaar and maraq are practically the same

Maraq is usually clear, made with onions, meat on the bone and is watery with optional potato. Suqaar is drier with more meat and veg. Suqaar is made with diced meat off the bone.

[zulaika]

I'm actually glad our cuisine is growing diverse to include more ingredients from around the world. I wanna see more Asian influence into our cooking.

[CunaayeLander]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

Suuqaar and maraq are practically the same

Maraq and Suqaar are not same and never will be
Maraq is when u cook the meat with vegetables and add biyo badan. It turns out soup like this


Suqaar is made like this

[LiquidHYDROGEN]

As far as I'm aware, laxoox is Yemeni jewish not ethiopian. As for somali food try Malawax, muqumad, Shurbad, bariis isku dexkaris, suqaar, maraq, suugo etc.

Lol@cambabur. You mean quraac.

Suuqaar and maraq are practically the same

WTF? Uu iska hadlaa kanina.

[Amira143]

Those Babalow thingies are

And isn't nafaqo Somali food??