🇸🇾 Syria
Muhammara
Muhammara is Aleppo on a plate: the city's famous peppers and walnuts bound with pomegranate molasses, deep red as its name promises.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 20 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
4 people
✨ What makes it special
Aleppo pepper paste and toasted walnuts thickened with breadcrumbs, balanced sweet-sour with pomegranate molasses.
Ingredients
- 3 red bell peppers, roasted and peeled
- 150 gwalnuts, toasted
- 3 tbsppomegranate molasses
- 50 gbreadcrumbs
- 1 tbspAleppo pepper paste or flakes
- 1 clovegarlic
- 1 tspground cumin
- 4 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Roast the peppers until blistered and black in patches, then peel, seed, and drain them well.
- 2
Pulse the walnuts coarsely — muhammara wants texture, not a purée.
- 3
Add the peppers, molasses, pepper paste, garlic, cumin, and breadcrumbs, pulsing to a thick, spreadable red paste.
- 4
Loosen with olive oil, taste, and sharpen with more molasses or a pinch of salt.
- 5
Rest an hour for the flavors to settle, then plate with a drizzle of oil and crushed walnuts.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 4