Ingredient
Smen
Aged, salted butter — the flavour-bank of the Moroccan larder.
- Darija
- Smen
- Tamazight
- Udi
- العربية
- سمن
What it is
Smen is butter cooked down with salt and herbs, then aged — sometimes for years — in a sealed clay or glass jar. The longer it ages, the more it tastes of something older than butter.