Crispy red peppers with yogurt and garlic dip
In an extract from Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the Mediterranean, Anastasia Miari shares a Turkish recipe that makes for a perfect snack.
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‘Biber’ is ‘pepper’ in Turkish and ‘Kavlama’ means ‘to heat up.’ This surprisingly entertaining addition to Esma’s breakfast is perhaps my favourite owing to the crispy red peppers that vary in degrees of spicy from pleasant tingle to ‘that just set my mouth on fire.’ It’s the Turkish breakfast equivalent of Russian roulette. Fried to a satisfyingly crunchy consistency, the peppers become dippable crisps that we scoop up garlicky yogurt with, cooling our mouths down after a particularly hot one.
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