Recipe: Perfect Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad)

Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad). Ezme as a word can be translated as mashed, so this is a kind of mashed salad. However, the method of its preperation is very significant for this salad. Genuine kebab restaurants make it using a big cleaver or a special double handled knife or a super sharp chef knife.

Actually, this version is very spicy, so you could opt to tone it down a little depending on your taste - just cut down on the chillies or the red pepper flakes. Great recipe for Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad). Some people use tomato , but I believe tomatoes give theirjuice and become mushy , you can not keep in the fridge for more than a day or so. You can have Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad) using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad)

1. You need 6 of hot and sweet green pepper.
2. It's 3 of red pepper.
3. You need 1 of dry onion.
4. It's 5 cloves of garlic.
5. You need 1 of lemon.
6. Prepare 1 bunch of Italian parsley.
7. It's of Drizzle of olive oil.
8. Prepare 2 of tea spoon of Red pepper.
9. It's 1 Handful of almonds or walnuts.
10. It's to taste of Salt.
11. It's 3 tbs of tomato paste.

This recipe belongs to a very good friend of mine , who owns a Turkish restaurant in New Jersey. Acili ezme is a Turkish healthy and spicy sauce, dip, meze or salad made from cucumber, tomatoes and peppers seasoned with salt, chili flakes and olive oil. Spicy dip appetizer or salad, which we usually eat at restaurants, can easily be made at home. It goes especially well with meat dishes.

Acili Ezme (Spicy vegetable salad) step by step

1. Peel a onion put it in a chopper, then take its juice off put it aside,.
2. Wash and clean a bunch of parsley, put it in a chopper add green and yellow pepper, garlic, red pepper flakes, 1 lemon juice,, chop them again.
3. Add salt to taste, tomato paste, use chopper again and drizzle olive oil.
4. Add chopped almond or walnuts.
5. Stir and decorate with green olive..

This recipe belongs to a very good friend of mine , who owns a Turkish restaurant in New Jersey. " Istanbul Grill" hope you like it. At ABA Restaurant, you will instantly feel as though you walked into the city of Istanbul. The cafe provides generous portions, while maintaining modest prices. <br />ABA Restaurant provides an authentic atmosphere to their customers with its decoration. Made with fresh tomato, spicy green peppers, walnut, lemon, pepper sauce, garlic & olive oil. Whole eggplant served with delicious stuffing prepared from onions, green peppers, tomatoes, parsley & a hint of garlic.