Dishes made with red pepper
10 dishes from around the world that list red pepper as a main ingredient.
Cataplana
🇵🇹 PortugalSeafood and meat stew cooked in a sealed metal vessel from Portugal's Algarve
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
HarissaVeganهَرِيسَة
🇹🇳 Tunisia and 4 moreHot chili paste blended with spices and olive oil, central to Tunisian cooking
Sauce, pickle or ferment
LahmacunMeat
🇸🇾 Syria and 3 moreThin flatbread baked with a topping of minced meat, vegetables and herbs
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Menemen
🇹🇷 TurkeyEggs gently cooked with tomatoes, peppers, and spices, often served for breakfast in Turkey
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Adana kebabıMeat
🇹🇷 Turkey and 2 moreHand-minced lamb kebab grilled on skewers, named for the city of Adana
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
MakdousVeganالمكدوس
🇸🇾 Syria and 3 moreSmall eggplants packed with walnuts, red pepper, garlic and cured in olive oil
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Dinner
PistoVegan
🇪🇸 SpainSpanish vegetable stew with tomato, peppers, and olive oil
Stew or curry, Lunch, Dinner
ZacuscăVegan
🇷🇴 Romania and 3 moreRoasted eggplant and pepper spread from Romania, eaten on bread
Sauce, pickle or ferment, Breakfast, Snacks
Ga'atVegetarian
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 1 moreStiff barley or wheat porridge with a spiced butter sauce in the center
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
KourdassMeat
🇲🇦 Morocco and 1 moreLamb offal sausage, salted, spiced, sun-dried and boiled for festivals and weddings
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pisto: Boca Dorada, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Menemen: やましこ, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Ga'at: Stefan Alfons Tzeggai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Harissa: Ovva olfa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kourdass: مصطفى ملو, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cataplana: Sevinha, Public domain, source
- Adana kebabı: Garrett Ziegler, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lahmacun: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on cop, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zacuscă: No machine-readable author provided. Bogdan assumed (based on copyrigh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Makdous: QuasarFr, CC BY-SA 4.0, source