Tuesday, 28 June 2011

LJ imagine inventing your own letter.

By all accounts the letter LJ was invented by Ljudevit Gaj in the early 1800's, fancy inventing a letter you can keep your micro processor, penicillin, or instant coffee ( like really WHY would you invent that ) anyway thats all ancient history, and back to the here and now and Ljute paprike or hot peppers are very popular in the balkans they come in all sorts of varieties, dried or pickled great to add a bit of heat, now this recipe calls for Kajmak which is a sort of creamy ricotta which you can find in middle eastern delis particularly turkish ones.

20 hot peppers ( the long thin variety )
30ml verjuice or white wine vinegar
1.5 ltr water
3 tbsp olive oil
300g kajmak
1 tsp salt

clean the peppers by inserting a knife at the top and cutting away the " crown " scrape out seeds being careful to not make to big a hole

bring the water to boil adding salt and vinegar

add peppers for 1 minute NO MORE

remove and place on paper towel to dry

when dry fill with kajmak to 2/3 rd. anymore and you will have kajmak oozing out.

arrange in a ceramic or pyrex baking tray let the salted water cool and pour over peppers will keep for about a month in the fridge but i guarantee they wont last that long.

best eaten as part of an antipasto or mezze platter with some ice cold beer to drown the peppers heat

These are the type of peppers or capsicum you want we are not talking Birdseye chilli here

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