A fundamental part of southern Turkish cooking. How to make sundried pepper paste at home.
Category: | Essentials & For The Pantry |
Seasons | Summer |
Cuisine Type | Turkish |
10 Kg large sweet red peppers 'Salçalık or Kapya biberi' |
50 Grams small pickle salt 'İri tuzu' (3 Tablespoons) |
45 Milliliter Olive or sunflower oil (3 Tablespoons) |
Olive oil for sealing |
7 Kgs Large sweet red peppers 'Salçalık or Kapya biberi' |
3 Kgs Hot red peppers 'Salçalık or Kapya biberi' |
Keeps in the fridge for at least one year.
Once open as you use the pepper paste, gently scrape down from the side of the jars, flatten and re-top with olive oil as required. This layer of olive oil will prevent the paste from moulding.
If you have a food mill you don't have to soften the peppers at all they just go straight in, and if you live in a village or neighbourhood full of salça makers you may find they'll come round and do all your milling for you but otherwise they need to be cooked down a little to help them blend which results in a better yield too.
Gloves are pretty important too, more so if you make you pepper salça hot, but I made the mistake my first year of thinking it wouldn't be necessary for sweet peppers, trust me when I say the odd hot one will likely worm its way in and that your fingers will end up stained no matter how sweet you like your paste!
Gloves are pretty important too, more so if you make you pepper salça hot, but I made the mistake my first year of thinking it wouldn't be necessary for sweet peppers, trust me when I say the odd hot one will likely worm its way in and that your fingers will end up stained no matter how sweet you like your paste!
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I will certainly give this recipe a go.
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I've been buying salca from the store and will now have a go at it at home.
What is the traditional way? Can you please share with us. Thanks
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