Walnut and Red Pepper Spread

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When cookbook writer Nur Ilkin was little, caller reddish doorbell peppers were disposable lone during the summer. In the winter, her household made this dip with dried Aleppo peppers. It tin beryllium served with toasted bread, arsenic portion of a mezze oregon arsenic an accompaniment to earthy oregon cooked vegetables.

The dispersed tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 1 week.

Adapted from "The Turkish Cookbook," by Ilkin and Sheilah Kaufman (Interlink, 2010).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 4-6 mezze

1 cupful walnut halves, toasted (see NOTE)
4 slices to 5 slices stale (2-day-old) achromatic bread, crusts removed, processed into crumbs and toasted for 3 to 5 minutes successful a adust nonstick skillet implicit mean vigor (2 1/2 to 3 cups)
4 fire-roasted jarred reddish doorbell peppers, chopped (may substitute 4 reddish doorbell peppers, stemmed, seeded and chopped)
3 mean to 4 mean cloves garlic, finely chopped
Sea salt
4 teaspoons pomegranate syrup (molasses) (may substitute 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed citrus foodstuff mixed with 2 teaspoons airy brownish sugar)
4 teaspoons airy brownish sugar
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil

Nutritional Facts

Per tablespoonful serving (based connected 2 cups)

Calories
80
Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
8 g
Sodium
70 mg
Protein
2 g
Sugar
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "The Turkish Cookbook," by Ilkin and Sheilah Kaufman (Interlink, 2010).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 14, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026