Kısır (Fine Bulghur Salad)

Emre Bakan
Emre Bakan @cook_emre
Istanbul, Turkey

This a meal for lunches, picnics, 5 o’clock teas and every occasion. It can be a filling side dish or main by itself. It is so customizable, you can add so many vegetables and herbs. Just be creative!

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Ingredients

45 minutes
4-5 people
  1. Base:
  2. 300 gramsfine bulghur
  3. 400 mlhot water
  4. To add flavour to the base:
  5. 1sweet onion
  6. 1 tbspred pepper paste
  7. 1 tbsptomato paste
  8. 3 tbspolive oil
  9. 1 tspsalt
  10. 5 clovesgarlic
  11. Vegetables:
  12. 1cucumber
  13. 4pickled cucumbers
  14. 1 headiceberg lettuce (you can use leaf, romaine… whatever you have on hand)
  15. 1green pepper
  16. 1 bunchparsley
  17. 5spring onions
  18. Spices and flavourings:
  19. 1 tsphot chili flakes
  20. 1 tspdried mint
  21. 1 tspground black pepper
  22. 1 tspground sumac
  23. 3 tbsplemon juice
  24. 2 tbsppomegranate sauce

Cooking Instructions

45 minutes
  1. 1

    Add boiling hot water to the bulghur in a bowl, cover it up and wait for it to bloom.

  2. 2

    In a pan, heat olive oil and cook onion, add pastes and salt. Cook for 3 minutes.

  3. 3

    In a big bowl where you can mix everything up, prepare your vegetables.

    Chop, cucumbers, lettuce, pepper, parsley and spring onions.

    You can add more veggies like grated carrot, diced tomato, chopped fresh herbs…

  4. 4

    In the big bowl, combine and mix everything well.

    Add spices and flavourings and mix for the last time.

    Your salad is ready to serve.

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I’ll be posting my recipes and my tips about cooking here as much as I know and love. All for cooking desire!...Can’t wait to try new recipes from the platform as well! Be safe!
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