Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, kisir (turkish bulgur salad). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bulgur, sometimes referred to as cracked wheat, is a staple in Turkish pantries and is one of the most common ingredients in Turkish cooking. It's used to make side dishes like bulgur pilaf, added to thicken soups, kneaded into meatballs and, one of my favorites, included in cold salads like bulgur and fresh herb salad and kısır. Kisir is a simple, flavor-packed Turkish bulgur salad.
Kisir (Turkish bulgur salad) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Kisir (Turkish bulgur salad) is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kisir (turkish bulgur salad) using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Kisir (Turkish bulgur salad):
- Get 1 cup fine bulgur
- Make ready 2/3 cup hot water
- Take 1 bunch spring onions
- Prepare 1/4 cucumber (optional)
- Get 10 branches parsley
- Make ready 10 branches mint
- Make ready Lettuce
- Get 1 table spoon mild chilli paste
- Prepare 1 table spoon tomato paste
- Make ready 4 table spoon extra virgin olive oil
- Get 2 table spoon pomegranate sour
- Get 1 lemon
- Take Ground black pepper
- Take Ground cumin
- Make ready Salt
I also love having kisir just as a main dish for dinner or a light lunch. Kisir is a popular Turkish salad of bulgur wheat, chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, spring onions, loads of fresh herbs, nuts and a hint of chili. In this classic Turkish salad the bulgur grains are not cooked but soaked and worked by hand to soften. It is important to use only aromatic sun-ripened tomatoes to give the dish flavour.
Steps to make Kisir (Turkish bulgur salad):
- Here are all the ingredients.
- Put the bulgur into a large bowl. Add the hot water and stir. The water should wet all the bulgur and a little bit of water should be left at the bottom; that's the right amount ;).
- Wait for 10min for bulgur to get cooked.
- Add chilli and tomato paste. Stir well until all the bulgur is reddish/orange colour.
- Finely chop all the greens, add them and stir.
- Add juice of 1 lemon, 2 table spoon of pomegranate sour, 4-5 table spoon of extra virgin olive oil.
- Add a pinch of cumin (not much), a pinch of ground black pepper and depending on how salty the pastes are, a pinch of salt. And mix everything well. Kisir is ready!
- I enjoy eating this salad along with lettuce. In some variations lettuce is finely chopped into the salad too. You can try both! Enjoy! 😋😉 "Afiyet olsun!"
Bulgur Salad, which is called Kisir in Turkish, is the favourite food of all Turkish people, but especially women. It's like a must to make this salad when you invite your female friends. I LOVE bulgur salad as a meal, side dish or snack. How To Cook Turkish Bulgur Wheat My good friend Kate came over and we made Kisir today … Pour the bulgur wheat into a bowl (the bulgur will expand so make sure the raw bulgur only fills round half of the bowl).
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