- This is unacceptable.
This is unacceptable.
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Hi, my name's Khadra
and today I'm here to try our other Somali mom's, suqaar.
- Suqaar is often like a special dish
and because it's like childhood wise, like a special dish,
when you see it, you smile.
- Suqaar is a type of like a lamb stew.
It's different to a curry
because the liquid naturally comes out from the lamb.
- A small dices of meat,
the smaller the better cause you get the sauces in
and so that's really key.
- Onions, potatoes, carrots
- Green peppers
- Don't overdo it and don't make it saucy.
- Please, I don't wanna see no fat.
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- I am ready, bring it. Bring it on.
Bring it on.
- For my one, I don't use green peppers
because I don't like soggy vegetables inside my meat.
I try to keep it as minimalistic
but also wholesome and flavorsome at the same time.
- Okay. So this is a bit different.
- Oh wow. (chuckles)
- It is a bit big for suqaar.
I don't know if this would be classed as suqaar.
- That's not suqaar.
That's not suqaar.
Suqaar is meant to be tiny little dices.
- Okay. The meat is a bit,
(slices vigorously) tough.
- Can hardly see any vegetables or onions or pepper,
you know,
that rich, nice, good--
Looking, it should've got more coriander.
I found one coriander here.
- I can comment from here, if that's okay.
Just because it's drippy and I don't wanna spit it out.
- Let's find a small one, cause they're so big.
I want to look ladylike.
- It's really--
Oh my God.
That's that that, that's tough.
That's really, really tough.
- Can you hear my chewing from here?
I'm just no where near.
- I'll try the sauce.
That is so salty.
- It's salty.
It's a bit too salt--
This is like salt, salty.
- Oh my goodness.
What a shame, seriously?
Sorry. I'm going to rate this a two.
This is unacceptable.
- I will be generous.
I would give it a four.
- Unacceptable.
- Do you know, I'm not used to boasting about my stuff
but I will boast the skills that I have been taught
by amazing aunties.
With me, definitely, it's just about
I guess maybe getting the soy sauce,
it's not traditional, but the salt at the right level.
- Mm. Well, it's smells very nice.
The meat is actually really small.
Okay, let's have a look.
- I like the fact that it's crispy a little bit,
which is really nice.
And I also like the fact that she cut it up
really like skinny, cause normal people cut up like peppers,
really thick.
- I quite like it with the sauce,
like just the tiniest bit of sauce.
- I'm not gonna lie. It is overcooked.
There should be liquid, and it's kind of dried up.
I know that it's gonna be quite like hard to the taste.
- Let me taste it.
Let me stop talking and taste this.
Oh, gotta kick of spice.
- It's very tasty.
Quite spicy.
- That's nice actually.
Oh my God.
A bit salty.
A bit spicy too.
- Cutting it up perhaps more thicker.
That would be quite nice.
- If I was go into a restaurant, I wouldn't be mad.
Yeah, no, I would give that an eight.
I like that.
- I would give this a six out ten.
- It's a good, good try.
But, it's not mine.
- I am a chef.
I don't announce it to everyone, but I'm definitely a chef.
I love it.
And I'm really, really good at it as well.
- Awh.
- So this looks better in the sense where
that we have a bit of like more liquid, which is great.
- Potatoes, not ideal.
I can see a lot of sauce.
So can you see, there's a lot of very wet.
And the potatoes, I guess, give it another.
It's not so hard.
- They put in potatoes.
The chunks are fairly big.
- The meat seems a bit too big for me.
Mm. Very soft.
Very nice.
Oh, that's really good.
- It's tender.
So, it's very soft.
- I actually like the flavor.
I really like the flavor.
Maybe I'll start adding potatoes in there.
I dunno what it is, but that was really nice.
- I'll give this an eight.
- An easily eight.
(trumpets wailing)
- Woo hoo!
I mean, I just wanna say women, you were against the best.
Well done.
Good try on both your part.
- I am very disappointed.
I'm very sad.
- As a humble person, as I am, (arabic)
It's meant to be what it's meant to be.
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