Why is it working
- By stretching the bell pepper and onion mixture, a fine mesh lined with a cheese cloth removes excess moisture, ensuring that the muhammara is thick yet spread.
- With the use of Panko, which is gently ground in a food processor instead of the usual bread crumbs, helps to thicken the muhamma without being too dense or paste.
- Allow the dish to rest for one hour before serving, melts and intensifies the taste of the food.
The jersey is not only a collection of sauces and small bites, but also a way to pull food and conversation and turn the meal into a hurry and share. Although hummus can be the best known Mezze in the West, another cut that has become popular in the United States in recent years, Muhammara. Thinking that it comes from Aleppo, Syria, Muhammara, red peppers, raw onions, nuts, olive oil, pomegranate molasses and spices such as Aleppo pepper, cumin, coriander and all fucker, they are all rich and strange. It is believed that the name comes from the Arabic word ḥTheyWhich means “red”, probably nodding to its vibrant color.
I grew up in Amman, Jordan, where there was no shortage of media, which could be chosen when he eaten in a restaurant. Everyone in my family has no negotiability: my dad was hummus, my mother was mutabal (a smoky eggplant dip Tahini, garlic and lemon juice), my sister was KiBeh, and mine was always muhammara. As a kid, I pulled the top of my mother quietly and nervously and whispered, “Did you order the muhamma?” It would make me order two.
Mezs are often served in restaurants, which also offer grilled meat. The table first fills in a selection of sauce, thinking of herbs, pomegranate pomegranate seeds and generous olive oil, as well as mini salty cakes, fried kicks balls and warm pita. After felt forever, the table is cleaned to make the way for the second action: the grilled meats. I always asked Muhammara to stay on the table as it was the perfect accompaniment to Shish Tawook, Kebabs and grilled lamb.
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Main techniques to make Muhammara at home
While some versions of the DIP call for pepper roasting before mixing to create a sweeter, smoky flavor, the muhamma I grew up in Jordan, and during visits to Syria, there was always fried, fresh peppers. Dip I Love has a fresh and holey taste and thick yet spread. I use raw red peppers and raw onions to achieve this fresh taste. In order to get the Muhammara silky texture, the peppers and onions are all processed as finished as possible in the food processor. And since the red pepper and onion are naturally wet, both are essential – otherwise the muhammara soup will be.
To further thicken the sauce, I gently process the Panko bread crumbs before folding into the Bors-Onion mixture. Panko helps thicken the muhamma without dense or paste. Unlike the usual bread crumbs, the Panko is made of breadless bread and creates shiny breezy flakes that absorb moisture without weighing the dive.
Once the remaining ingredients of all Muhammara have been processed and processed together, let the dive rest for at least one hour before serving, the flavors give the meld and deepening. You may be tempted to skip this rest and immerse yourself in the dive right away, but please, the ultimate taste is worth this short wait.
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To serve Muhammara's suggestions
To this day, I haven't met a soul who tried Muhamma and didn't like it. The dive is fascinated by the bold, layered flavors – the loud stroke of the sweet pomegranate, the rich triumph of the ground nuts, the gentle warmth of the spices, the confident depth of olive oil and the fruity of red ringing peppers. You are practically daring to find new methods to eat. Try it in the traditional way by filling it with good olive oil and filled with pita bread. Either be creative and spread to sandwiches, use pasta as a filling, serve with grilled meats and fish, or enjoy it, though the loving heart of Muhamma is longing.
Muhammara: The bold close -east spreads for everything
Cooking method
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1 cup (4 ounce; 113 g), plus 2 tablespoon (3/4 ounce; 21 g) not roasted walnutshared
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1/2 cup wreck bun crumbs (1.5 ounce; 43 g)
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2 pound (907 g) red pepperwith seed and chopped
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1 small yellow onion (6 ounce; 170 g), chopped chopped
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1/3 cup (80 ml) virgin extra olive oilPlus even to sift
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1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon Near -East Jarred mild red papar paste or spread (2 1/2 ounce; 71 g) (see comments)
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1/4 cup (60 ml) pomegranate (See notes)
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2 teaspoon (10 ml) fresh lemon juice
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2 3/4 teaspoon Diamond crystal kosher salt; For table salt use half with so much volume
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1 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
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1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
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1 teaspoon Earth Aleppo pepper (See notes)
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1/2 teaspoon ground spotted
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1/4 teaspoon black pepper
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2 tablespoon pomegranate seeds (1 ounce; 28 g), optional
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Mint twig or 5–7 assorted mint leaves for the garnish, optional
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Pit for serving
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In the food processing bowl, process the nuts of 1 cup until cut it very finely (do not process it into a pasta), approx. For 30 seconds. Place it in a large bowl and set aside.
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Add the Panko to the now empty food processing bowl and process the fine, approx. 45 seconds. Transfer to the same bowl with nuts; Set aside.
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Wear a delicious mesh filter with the cheese cloth and place on a separate large bowl. Develop the peppers until cut it very finely, scratches the side of the bowl as needed, approx. 1/2 minutes. Transfer to the prepared filter. It processes the onion into the now empty food processing bowl until it scratches the side of the bowl as needed, approx. For 1 minute. Add the onions to the filter using the peppers processed. Allow the mixture to stretch, occasionally with a rubber spatula and when the liquid is discarded, until the mixture thickens and most fluids descend, approx. 30 minutes. After the voltage, roll the cheese scarf around the mixture and press tightly on the filter until only one light flow flow is released.
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Move the lowered Bors-Onion mixture into a bowl with nuts. Add olive oil, red pepper pasta, pomegranate melas, lemon juice, salt, coriander, caraway, Aleppo pepper, allspice and black pepper. Mix well with the combination. Cover and cool for at least 1 hour to clarify the flavors.
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Place the muhamma in a serving dish and sift generously with olive oil. Cut the remaining 2 tablespoons of nuts in half longitudinal. Top Muhammara decoratively with nuts and pomegranate seeds when used. Decorate a mint with friction or leaves for decoration when used. Serve with Pita.
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Special equipment
Kitchen scale, food processor, fine mesh filter, cheese cloth, rubber spatula
Note
This recipe is easy to double or reduce it. Continue the peppers and onions in two items when Muhammara doubles.
To achieve the best result, use clean pomegranate melasz without added sugar. The pomegranate is available in the near -east and Iranian grocery stores and is increasingly in stock in American supermarkets.
The red pepper paste, which is also often slipped, is called mild pepper spreads, can be found in near -east, Turkish and Greek grocery stores, and is often available in many American grocery stores.
The earthly Aleppo Bors can be found in the near -east grocery stores. If not available, replace 1 teaspoon Alepo pepper with 3/4 teaspoons with sweet peppers and 1/8 teaspoon of Cayenne.
Make-Head and Storage
Muhammara can be cooled for up to 1 week in the airtight container.