Ezme
A crowd-pleasing Turkish vegetarian built around tomato, green chilli and parsley — roughly 60 minutes start to finish, and rated medium to make. You'll find the full ingredient list (with a scaler to change the servings), 6 steps of method, substitutions, and ideas for what to serve alongside.
You'll mainly reach for food processor and whisk. At medium difficulty across 6 steps, it's manageable with a little attention.
What you'll need
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Pantry staples (you likely have these)
Diet: not verified. We could not confirm pul biber from the ingredient list, so we make no dietary claim for this recipe.
Contains: none of the major allergens we track from the ingredients listed.
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How to make it
- Put the tomatoes and all of the peppers in a food processor and blitz until finely chopped.
- Tip out into a sieve, set over a bowl and leave to strain.
- Add the onions, garlic and parsley to the food processor and blitz until finely chopped, then set aside.
- Add red pepper paste, tomato purée, pomegranate molasses, pul biber, sumac, dried mint and most of the extra virgin olive oil to a serving bowl and whisk well so everything comes together as a sauce.
- Tip in the blitzed onion mixture and the strained pepper mixture along with 1 tsp flaky sea salt .
- Stir well, then drizzle with the remaining extra virgin olive oil to serve.
You'll use: Food processor · Whisk
Watch how it's made
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What to serve with Ezme
- Corba Side
- Kumpir Side
- Turkish rice (vermicelli rice) Miscellaneous
- Imam bayildi with BBQ lamb & tzatziki Lamb
Tips & common questions
How long does Ezme take to make?
About 60 minutes from start to finish — an estimate based on the 6 steps and 13 ingredients. Times vary with your kitchen and how much prep you do ahead.
Can I scale this recipe up or down?
Yes — use the servings control above the ingredients and every quantity rescales automatically (fractions included). Cooking times stay roughly the same; very large batches may need a little longer.
Is Ezme suitable for my diet?
We make no dietary claim for this recipe: at least one ingredient could not be resolved to a definite plant or animal source, so labelling it either way would be a guess. The full ingredient list is above.
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