Kısır

Kısır
A plate of kısır decorated with green olives and cucumber pieces
Course	Side dish, salad, meze
Place of origin	Mersin -Turkey
Main ingredients	Finely ground bulgur, parsley, tomato paste
Cookbook:Kısır  Kısır

Kısır or qisir is a traditional side dish in Turkish cuisines. The main ingredients are finely ground bulgur, parsley, and tomato paste. Common additional ingredients include onion, garlic (in some regions), sour pomegranate molasses (in southern regions of Turkey) or lemon, lettuce leaves, cucumber, and a lot of spices. It has a reddish color due to tomato paste admixture. It can be eaten cold and used as a salad or meze.

Similar dishes

• Eetch (Armenian)
• Tabbouleh (Levantine)

External links

• A recipe

References

• Ghillie Basan; Jonathan Basan (1995). Classic Turkish Cookery. I.B. Tauris Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-86064-011-7. Retrieved 2008-04-24.