Bulgur Salad A Traditional Turkish Kisir

• 1 cup bulgur fne
• 1 cup hot water
• 1/2 tablespoon tomato paste
• 1/2 tablespoon pepper paste, hot or sweet
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 onion small
• 1 bunch flat leaf parsley
• 1 cucumber
• 2 green peppers
• 1 bunch spring onions
• 2 tablespoons pomegranate syrup
• 1/2 lemon
• 2 teaspoons red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon mint flakes
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• lettuce leaves optional

1. Take a large bowl and mix your hot water, tomato paste and pepper paste together. Now add in your bulgur and 1 tsp of salt. Stir your water mix, bulgur and salt together once (you don't want to stir to much) and then cover the mix with a kitchen towel and leave to soak up the water for about 10 minutes.
2. Cut your onion into wafer thin half moon shapes, sprinkle some salt over the sliced onion and then rinse and remove any excess water.
3. Remove the cover from your bulgur and fluff it up with a fork. Then add in your pepper flakes, ground cumin, mint, oil and pomegranate molasses (if you don't have it leave it out), lemon juice and your sliced onions.
4. Finely chop the peppers, spring onions, cucumber and parsley and mix through the bulgur.
5. Traditionally Turkish Kisir is eaten with lettuce leaves, you can serve it on a lettuce leaf or leave at the side and then wrap some Kisir inside the lettuce leaves and eat. You can also serve some tomatoes alongside.

bulgur fune, water, tomato paste, pepper, olive oil, onion, flat leaf parsley, cucumber, green peppers, spring onions, pomegranate syrup, lemon, red pepper, ground black pepper, mint flakes, cumin

Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Bulgur-Salad-a-Traditional-Turkish-Kisir-1649326 (may not work)