Bulgur Salad A Traditional Turkish Kisir

1. 1

   Take a large bowl and mix your hot water, tomato paste and pepper paste together. Now add in your bulgur and 1 tsp of salt. Stir your water mix, bulgur and salt together once (you don't want to stir to much) and then cover the mix with a kitchen towel and leave to soak up the water for about 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Cut your onion into wafer thin half moon shapes, sprinkle some salt over the sliced onion and then rinse and remove any excess water.

3. 3

   Remove the cover from your bulgur and fluff it up with a fork. Then add in your pepper flakes, ground cumin, mint, oil and pomegranate molasses (if you don't have it leave it out), lemon juice and your sliced onions.

4. 4

   Finely chop the peppers, spring onions, cucumber and parsley and mix through the bulgur.

5. 5

   Traditionally Turkish Kisir is eaten with lettuce leaves, you can serve it on a lettuce leaf or leave at the side and then wrap some Kisir inside the lettuce leaves and eat. You can also serve some tomatoes alongside.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.