Bulgur Salad a Traditional Turkish Kisir Recipe
By: Kerry Arslan
Published: Friday, January 3, 2014 - 4:43am

Ingredients




Ingredients for Turkish Kisir
1 cup of fıne bulgur
1 cup of hot water
1/2 tbsp tomato paste
1/2 tbsp pepper paste ( hot or sweet)
1/2 cup olive oil
1 small onion
1 bunch flat leaf parsley
1 cucumber
2 green peppers
bunch of spring onions
2 tbsp pomegranate syrup
juice of 1/2 lemon
2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp mint flakes
1 tsp cumin
lettuce leaves (optional)

Preparation

1 Recipe for Turkish Kisir 2 Take a large bowl and mix your hot water, tomato paste and pepper paste together.  Now add in your bulgur and 1 tsp of salt.  Stir your water mix, bulgur and salt together once (you don’t want to stir to much) and then cover the mix with a kitchen towel and leave to soak up the water for about 10 minutes. 3 Cut your onion into wafer thin half moon shapes, sprinkle some salt over the sliced onion and then rinse and remove any excess water. 4 Remove the cover from your bulgur and fluff it up with a fork. Then add in your pepper flakes, ground cumin, mint, oil and pomegranate molasses (if you don’t have it leave it out), lemon juice and your sliced onions. 5 Finely chop the peppers, spring onions, cucumber and parsley and mix through the bulgur. 6 Traditionally Turkish Kisir is eaten with lettuce leaves, you can serve it on a lettuce leaf or leave at the side and then wrap some Kisir inside the lettuce leaves and eat. You can also serve some tomatoes alongside. 7 Turkish Kisir is also nice served with a refreshing glass of Ayran.

About

Traditional Turkish Kisir is a bulgur salad served during ladies days where they served food and tea.  This traditional Turkish Kisir is perfect for lunch or a light meal.