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Strips of sun-dried beef are rehydrated and simmered until their fibres loosen, dried okra powder is whisked in to give body, and fermented milk goes in at the end to turn the pot pale and tangy — abiad simply means white. The flavor is unlike anything made from fresh meat: drying concentrates the beef into something deep, faintly gamy and almost aged, and the sour milk keeps it from becoming heavy. Nothing in the pot is browned and no tomato or chilli powder is allowed near it, because the color is part of the dish's identity. It is slow, specific cooking, and it is served on important days.","Drying meat is old technology in Sudan, and a practical one. In a climate where refrigeration was scarce and herds moved, beef cut into strips and hung in hot dry air keeps for months and loses most of its weight, which makes it easy to transport. That preserved meat is sharmout, and Sudanese cooks treat it as an ingredient in its own right rather than a substitute for fresh beef — it tastes different, and that difference is the reason the dish exists.\n\nThe soup pairs it with two other preserved things. Weika, dried okra ground to powder, supplies the body that a broth from dried meat cannot provide on its own. Rob, milk soured and fermented at home, supplies the acidity and the color. All three ingredients keep without cooling, which tells you a great deal about the kitchen that invented the combination.\n\nSharmout abiad has a strong association with weddings and large celebrations, particularly in the central and northern parts of the country. Part of that is expense — good sharmout is not cheap, since it takes several kilos of fresh beef to make one of dried — and part of it is labour, because the meat must be soaked, simmered slowly and watched, and the milk has to be added carefully enough not to split. It is the kind of dish a family cooks in quantity for guests rather than on a weeknight, and the kind that older relatives are asked to supervise. Neighbouring Ethiopia and Eritrea dry meat too, as qwanta, and use it very differently; the technique is regional, the white soup is Sudanese.",[14,15,16,17],"Treats the rehydration as a real step with its own checkpoints, instead of assuming dried meat behaves like fresh.","Gives a reliable method for adding yogurt without curdling, which is where most attempts at this soup fail.","Keeps the pot deliberately pale, explaining what to avoid rather than only what to add.","Includes a workable way to dry your own beef if no Sudanese grocer is nearby.",[19,20,21,22,23,24],"Soak the sharmout in warm rather than hot water. Hot water firms the outer fibres and slows the rehydration instead of speeding it up.","Keep the soaking liquid and cook in it. Most of the concentrated beef flavor has moved into the water by the time the strips soften.","Sweat the onion without letting it take any color. Even light browning tints the finished soup and takes it out of the white category it is named for.","Stabilise the yogurt by whisking a spoonful of cornflour into it before it goes near the heat, then temper it with a ladle of hot broth first.","Never let the pot boil once the milk is in. A rolling boil splits the yogurt into grains and cloudy liquid within seconds, and there is no way back.","Season at the very end. Dried meat carries salt from the drying itself, and how much varies wildly between producers.",[26,30,34],{"original":27,"swap":28,"note":29},"Sharmout (sun-dried beef)","Plain unseasoned biltong, or beef dried at home","Look for biltong with nothing on it but salt and possibly vinegar. Sweetened or teriyaki-style jerky ruins the soup completely. To dry your own, cut lean beef topside into 1 cm strips, salt lightly and dry at 60°C in an oven with the door ajar for 8 to 10 hours, until dark and rigid.",{"original":31,"swap":32,"note":33},"Rob (fermented milk)","Plain full-fat yogurt, or yogurt thinned with buttermilk","Rob is more sour and more liquid than supermarket yogurt. Thinning yogurt with a little buttermilk gets you closer in both respects, and a spoonful of lemon juice sharpens it further if needed.",{"original":35,"swap":36,"note":37},"Weika (dried okra powder)","2 tbsp cornflour slaked in cold water","This gives body but none of the characteristic clinging texture or the faint vegetal flavor. Use it only as a last resort, and add a little more yogurt to compensate.",[39,42,45],{"name":40,"description":41},"Sharmout ahmar","The red counterpart, made with tomato and chilli instead of milk, so the same dried meat produces a completely different pot — sharper, hotter and much darker.",{"name":43,"description":44},"With kajaik","Made with dried Nile fish instead of dried beef, common along the river. Far stronger smelling, cooked the same way, and an acquired taste even for some Sudanese.",{"name":46,"description":47},"Thicker wedding version","More weika and less liquid, producing something closer to a heavy stew than a soup, ladled over asida for large gatherings where it needs to feed many people.",[49],"Asida or kisra, with sliced raw onion and lemon on the side","Refrigerate up to 3 days. Reheat slowly over low heat, stirring, and stop as soon as steam rises — the yogurt in the soup will split if it reaches a boil on the second day just as readily as on the first. It thickens considerably in the fridge, so thin it with hot water rather than more milk. Freezing works but changes the texture: the yogurt separates on thawing and needs a hard whisk and sometimes an extra spoonful of fresh yogurt to bring the soup back together. The dried meat itself keeps for months in a sealed jar in a cool cupboard.",[52,55,58,61,64],{"question":53,"answer":54},"What is sharmout and where can I buy it?","Sharmout is beef cut into strips and dried in the sun until hard, used across Sudan as a pantry ingredient rather than a snack. African and Middle Eastern grocers sometimes stock it, and Sudanese online shops sell it by the bag. Plain unseasoned biltong from a South African supplier is the most widely available stand-in.",{"question":56,"answer":57},"Why did my yogurt curdle in the soup?","It went in too fast, too cold, or into liquid that was boiling. Whisk a spoonful of cornflour into the yogurt, then slowly beat in a ladleful of the hot broth to raise its temperature before it joins the pot, and keep the heat below a simmer afterwards. Fermented rob is more heat-stable than commercial yogurt, which is why traditional versions curdle less.",{"question":59,"answer":60},"Can I make this with fresh beef instead?","You can make a perfectly nice yogurt and okra soup with fresh beef, but it is a different dish. Drying concentrates the meat and gives it a distinctive aged, almost gamy depth that fresh beef simply does not have, and the whole point of sharmout abiad is that flavor. Use fresh beef and expect something milder and more ordinary.",{"question":62,"answer":63},"Why is the soup meant to be white?","Abiad means white, and the pale color comes from deliberately leaving out tomato, chilli powder and browned onion, then finishing with soured milk. It is the visual signature of the dish and marks it as the celebratory version, in contrast to the red tomato-based stews made from the same dried meat.",{"question":65,"answer":66},"How far ahead can I make it for a party?","Cook the meat and the okra base up to two days ahead and refrigerate it, then add the yogurt only when reheating, which removes the main risk of splitting. The base actually improves overnight as the dried meat continues to soften and release flavor into the broth. Allow at least a couple of hours on the day for soaking if you start from dry.",[68,69,70,71],"Heavy stockpot","Balloon whisk","Kitchen scissors or a small mortar","Ladle",4,20,90,60,"hard",[78,79],"soup","main",[81,82,83],"gluten-free","halal-friendly","nut-free",[85,86,87,88],"yogurt","okra","onion","garlic",[90,95,99,104,108,111,114,118,121,125,129,133],{"qty":91,"unit":92,"name":93,"note":94},180,"g","sharmout (sun-dried beef strips)","or plain unseasoned biltong — see substitutions",{"qty":96,"unit":97,"name":98},1.6,"l","warm water",{"ref":100,"qty":101,"unit":102,"name":103},"sesame-oil",2,"tbsp","sesame oil",{"ref":87,"qty":105,"unit":106,"name":107},1,"piece","onion, finely chopped",{"ref":88,"qty":72,"unit":109,"name":110},"clove","garlic, finely chopped",{"ref":86,"qty":112,"unit":102,"name":113},3,"weika (dried okra powder)",{"ref":85,"qty":115,"unit":92,"name":116,"note":117},400,"plain full-fat yogurt, or rob","at room temperature",{"ref":119,"qty":105,"unit":102,"name":120},"cornstarch","cornflour, to stabilise the yogurt",{"ref":122,"qty":105,"unit":123,"name":124},"white-pepper","tsp","ground white pepper",{"ref":126,"qty":127,"unit":123,"name":128},"cumin",0.5,"ground cumin",{"qty":130,"unit":131,"name":132},null,"to taste","salt",{"ref":134,"qty":105,"unit":106,"name":135,"optional":136},"lemon","lemon, in wedges, to serve",true,[138,141,145,150,154,158,162],{"title":139,"text":140},"Break up the dried meat","Cut or snap the sharmout into pieces about 3 cm long, using scissors or a few taps in a mortar for the stubborn strips. Rinse them quickly under cold water to wash off any dust from drying.",{"title":142,"text":143,"timerSeconds":144},"Soak until flexible","Cover the pieces with 800 ml of the warm water and leave for 1 hour. They are ready when they have swelled visibly, darkened, and bend without snapping — board-hard strips have become leathery. Keep every drop of the soaking water.",3600,{"title":146,"text":147,"timerSeconds":148,"tip":149},"Sweat the onion pale","Warm the sesame oil in a heavy pot over low heat and cook the onion and garlic for 8 minutes, stirring, until completely soft and glassy with no color at all. If the edges start to brown, drop the heat and add a splash of water.",480,"Patience here is what keeps the soup white. Browning is the one thing this recipe does not want.",{"title":151,"text":152,"timerSeconds":153},"Simmer the meat","Add the soaked meat with its liquid plus the remaining 800 ml water, bring to a gentle boil and skim off any grey foam. Cover and simmer for 60 to 70 minutes, until the pieces pull apart into strands under light pressure from a fork.",3900,{"title":155,"text":156,"timerSeconds":157},"Whisk in the weika","Take the pot off the heat and let the bubbling stop. Sprinkle the okra powder over the surface in three additions, whisking hard between each, then return to low heat and cook for 6 minutes until the broth turns glossy and slightly viscous.",360,{"title":159,"text":160,"tip":161},"Temper and add the yogurt","Whisk the cornflour into the yogurt until smooth, then beat in a ladleful of the hot broth to warm it through. Pour the mixture back into the pot in a thin stream, stirring constantly, and keep the heat low.","The soup should steam and tremble but never bubble from here on.",{"title":163,"text":164,"timerSeconds":165},"Finish and season","Stir in the white pepper and cumin and heat for 4 to 5 minutes, until the soup is hot throughout and has turned an even pale ivory. 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