Ezme

Name: Ezme
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 3 Large Tomato; 1 medium Romano Pepper; 1 medium Green Chilli; 1 small Onion; 2 cloves minced Garlic; 25g Parsley; 2 tablespoons Red Pepper Paste; 1 tablespoon Tomato Puree; 2 tablespoons Pomegranate Molasses; 1 tablespoon Pul Biber; 2 tsp Sumac; 1 tablespoon Dried Mint; 60 ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Ezme is a vegetarian recipe from Turkish. It uses 13 ingredients, including tomato, romano pepper, green chilli, onion, garlic, parsley and more. The method is broken into 2 steps with measured ingredients.

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Method

1
Put the tomatoes and all of the peppers in a food processor and blitz until finely chopped. Tip out into a sieve, set over a bowl and leave to strain. Add the onions, garlic and parsley to the food processor and blitz until finely chopped, then set aside.
2
Add red pepper paste, tomato purée, pomegranate molasses, pul biber, sumac, dried mint and most of the extra virgin olive oil to a serving bowl and whisk well so everything comes together as a sauce. Tip in the blitzed onion mixture and the strained pepper mixture along with 1 tsp flaky sea salt . Stir well, then drizzle with the remaining extra virgin olive oil to serve.