A plate of kısır decorated with green olives and cucumber pieces.

Kısır is a traditional Turkish side dish made from fine bulgur or couscous, parsley, and tomato paste. The main ingredient, bulgur, is a cereal food generally made from parboiled durum wheat. For kısır, a finely grounded bulgur, unlike the coarse bulgur used for pilav, or sometimes couscous is used. Common additional ingredients include parsley, tomato paste, onion, garlic (in some regions), sour pomegranate juice (in southern regions of Turkey) or lemon, lettuce leaves, cucumber, and a lot of spices. It has a reddish color due to tomato paste admixture. It can be eaten cold and used as a salad or meze.

[edit] See also

• Eetch, a similar dish of Armenia
• Tabbouleh, a similar Arabic salad dish

[edit] References

Ghillie Basan; Josceline Dimbleby; Jonathan Basan (1995) (in English). Classic Turkish Cookery. I.B. Tauris Publishers. pp. p. 51. ISBN 978-1860640117. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xb62ZJMNVBwC&pg=PA51&hl=en&sig=tT6eRZX-82Px92jtcpqFAjuEQNs. Retrieved 2008-04-24. 

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