Ezme

Enjoy this salad to serve with your favourite Turkish dishes. Authentic ezme is very finely hand-chopped, or you can use a food processor, if you like

Prep:10 mins
No cooking

Serves 8
Easy

Nutrition per serving

kcal 122
fat 9g
saturates 1g
carbs 7g
sugars 0g
fibre 3g
protein 1g
salt 1.03g

Ingredients

2-3 large ripe tomatoes , quartered, around 400g
1 medium red Romano pepper , deseeded and roughly chopped
1 medium sivri biber or small green chilli, deseeded and roughly chopped
1 small onion , roughly chopped
2 large garlic cloves , crushed
25g fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 tbsp red pepper paste
1 tbsp tomato purée
2 tbsp pomegranate molasses
1 tbsp pul biber
2 tsp sumac
1 tbsp dried mint
60ml extra virgin olive oil

Method

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.
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.