It's made with hot peppers and sliced green olives and spices - but only the flesh of the pepper fruits, not the seeds, so it's not really all that hot. It's just hot enough to create a tingly sensation on the tongue - delightful! And it has the most amazingly strong olive taste, the combined effect is absolutely delectably delicious. I've used it in a bolognese I made with ground beef and an italian tomato and olive sauce. It added a lot of flavor.
The sauce is sold in fairly small glass bottles by this older Turkish immigrant guy who runs a fruit and vegetables store at a square one bus stop away from where I live. He's a very colorful character, very polite, and likes to talk with his customers. He has lots of other goodly stuff too, roasted salted almonds, brazil nuts, sweet, juicy fresh Iranian dates, fabulous gigantic Spanish navel oranges during wintertime etc...
There's so much awesome foreign food available in our stores now these days that we have immigrants to thank for, spicing up my motherland's otherwise fairly bland cuisine. Now I can get Lebanese fig marmalade in the local supermarket for example, tastes sensational with yoghurt/sour milk. Wouldn't have been possible just ten years ago...
The sauce is sold in fairly small glass bottles by this older Turkish immigrant guy who runs a fruit and vegetables store at a square one bus stop away from where I live. He's a very colorful character, very polite, and likes to talk with his customers. He has lots of other goodly stuff too, roasted salted almonds, brazil nuts, sweet, juicy fresh Iranian dates, fabulous gigantic Spanish navel oranges during wintertime etc...
There's so much awesome foreign food available in our stores now these days that we have immigrants to thank for, spicing up my motherland's otherwise fairly bland cuisine. Now I can get Lebanese fig marmalade in the local supermarket for example, tastes sensational with yoghurt/sour milk. Wouldn't have been possible just ten years ago...
