No.105 Not so Greek Salad 🥗 Serves:3-4
Time: 10 minutes
Difficulty: Straight forward
1 Large Cucumber
2 Green Peppers
2 large Tomatoes
1 Red Onion
12 Kalamata Olives
120g of Feta
50ml of Red Wine Vinegar
3 tablespoons of good quality Rapeseed Oil or Olive Oil
1 tablespoon of Oregano
Half a tablespoon of Sumac
Half a tablespoon of Pul Biber/Aleppo Pepper
1. Remove the skin of the onion and chop in half. Slice into thin long strips. Add to a large bowl with the red wine vinegar.
2. Chop the peppers into chunks, then de-seed the cucumber and chop into chunks. De-stone the olives and chop in half. Seed and chop the tomatoes. Add the peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, and olives to the red wine vinegar and onions.
3. Add the oregano and mix well. Leave to sit for at least 10 minutes to let the oregano to impart it’s flavour.
4. Add the oil and mix well. Arrange on your dish of choice with the feta, either cubed or crumbled. Drizzle over the excess vinegar.
5. Mix together the pul biber, sumac and remaining oregano. Sprinkle over the salad. #greeksalad #blackchapelkitchen #kalamataolives #pulbiber #recipeontheblog #recipewriter
No.104 Muhammara 🌶 fiery, sweet and creamy mezze Time: 60 minutes total
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Take your time
3 Red Peppers
1-2 tablespoons of Bread Crumbs (fresh not dried)
75g of Walnuts
1 tablespoon of Black Treacle
1/2 teaspoon of Pul Biber (Aleppo Pepper) chilli flakes
1/2 teaspoon of Salt
1/2 teaspoon of Ground Cumin
1 clove of Garlic
Half a Lemon
1 tablespoon of good quality rapeseed oil or olive oil
1. Roast the peppers in the oven for appromatley 45 minutes in a 180 degree celsisus oven until blackened.
2. Toast the walnuts in the oven for 10 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius.
3. Once the peppers are cooled remove the stem, skin and seeds.
Finely chop the red peppers as small as possible running a knife though the peppers.
4. Roughly chop the walnuts until they are almost rice krispies sized.
5. In a bowl add together the peppers and the walnuts. Add the salt, oil, treacle, cumin and half the lemon. Mince the garlic and add to the mixture. Combine well.
6. Add the chilli (add extra if you want an extra kick). Add the bread crumb until the mixture comes together and is not runny.
7. Taste and add extra treacle, chilli, oil or lemon as required. #muhammara #blackchapelkitchen #recipewriter #recipeontheblog #redpepper #mezze #aleppopepper #pulbiber
