The market · Chillies and peppers · The Middle East

Urfa chillies

Isot biber: a dark, purple-black chilli flake from Şanlıurfa in Turkey — smoky and raisin-like, mildly hot.

smoky · earthy · raisin-like

If you can't find it

Turkish grocers, as isot.

  1. 1Ancho chilli
    Ground, a little less
    You lose the smoky, raisin-and-tobacco note — close.

Goes with

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Knowing it

Where to buy
Turkish grocers.
A little history
The peppers are sun-dried by day and wrapped up at night to sweat, which is where the dark colour comes from.

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