Pantry guide
Best Pepper paste for home cooking
What Pepper paste is for, which kitchens use it, and where to find a jar worth cooking with.
Why cooks start here
Ground chile or pepper, oil, and salt — the jar that stands in for a puree.
In Turkish cooking, Pepper paste is not decoration. Add it where the recipe puts it: early if it needs fat and time, late if it is perfume.
Taste Pepper paste before you empty the spoon. Fresh jars smell like themselves; tired ones smell like dust. Buy the smallest amount you will finish.
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