Mouhammara (محمّرة) - Red pepper with walnut dip

Name: Mouhammara (محمّرة) - Red pepper with walnut dip
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 red peppers to make red pepper paste; 1 cup breadcrumbs; 2 tsp pomegranate molasses (if not available use 1tbsp lemon juice but pomegranate molasses will give it a good sweetness); 2 tbsp tahini or yogurt (optional); 1 tsp cumin; Pinch salt; 1 teaspoon coriander powder (optional); 1.5 cup walnuts, crushed; Pinch paprika or chilli flakes; 1/4 cup Olive oil (in the mixture + for topping); 1 garlic clove; 2-3 tablespoons water

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

Suitable for #vegan #vegetarian

One of my favorite dippings ever! It’s a popular appetizer in Lebanon and Syria that everybody loves 🇱🇧

To make red pepper paste (which we use for different purposes) we usually place +5kg of red peppers in the sun for 2 days to dry well before we blend them, but since you can’t guarantee the sun in the 🇬🇧 and I really wanted to make mouhammara right now I placed the red peppers in the oven and got almost the same result 🥳

Suitable for #vegan #vegetarian

One of my favorite dippings ever! It’s a popular appetizer in Lebanon and Syria that everybody loves 🇱🇧

Linda L. @lindzi

Lebanese

Suitable for #vegan #vegetarian

One of my favorite dippings ever! It’s a popular appetizer in Lebanon and Syria that everybody loves 🇱🇧

Suitable for #vegan #vegetarian

One of my favorite dippings ever! It’s a popular appetizer in Lebanon and Syria that everybody loves 🇱🇧

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Ingredients

4red peppers to make red pepper paste
1 cupbreadcrumbs
2 tsppomegranate molasses (if not available use 1tbsp lemon juice but pomegranate molasses will give it a good sweetness)
2 tbsptahini or yogurt (optional)
1 tspcumin
Pinchsalt
1 teaspooncoriander powder (optional)
1.5 cupwalnuts, crushed
Pinchpaprika or chilli flakes
1/4 cupOlive oil (in the mixture + for topping)
1garlic clove
2-3 tablespoonswater

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Steps

1

Wash the red peppers, cut them into slices, remove the seeds and put the in a preheated oven for 45min
2

When the red peppers are ready and dry, put them aside to cool down then peel off their skins (discard the skin, we dont use that)
3

Crush the red peppers with a blender to get a paste texture like in the photo below
4

Add all the other ingredients to the red pepper and mix again with the blender until you get a creamy texture like hummus dip
5

Put the mixture in a dish, pour some olive oil and decorate with chilli flakes and walnuts
6

📌📌📌If you don’t want to use the oven for 45 min to only make a dipping, you can bake more red peppers, blend them, add them in a jar with olive oil to use later with different types of food 📌📌📌