Chemically nonequilibrated quark-antiquark matter is studied within the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model. The equations of state of nonstrange (qϭu,d) and strange (qϭs) qq systems are calculated in the mean-field approximation. The existence of metastable bound states with zero pressure is predicted at finite densities and temperatures TՇ50 MeV. It is shown that the minimum energy per particle occurs for symmetric systems, with equal densities of quarks and antiquarks. At Tϭ0 these metastable states have quark number densities of about 0.5 fm Ϫ3 for qϭu,d and of 1 fm Ϫ3 for qϭs. A first order chiral phase transition is found at finite densities and temperatures. The critical temperature for this phase transition is approximately 75 MeV ͑90 MeV͒ for the nonstrange ͑strange͒ baryon-free quark-antiquark matter. For realistic choices of parameters, the model does not predict a phase transition in chemically equilibrated systems. Possible decay channels of the metastable qq droplets and their signatures in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are discussed. ͓S0556-2813͑99͒00406-9͔ PACS number͑s͒: 12.38. Mh, 11.30.Qc, 12.39.Fe, 25.75.Ϫq 1 Lattice calculations show that at temperatures TՇ150 MeV the gluons acquire a large effective mass due to the color screening effects. In the present work, dealing mostly with such moderate temperatures, we assume that gluonic degrees of freedom are suppressed.