We Have A Pomegranate Question For You

Seattlest just got a beautiful 250ml bottle of Kemal Kükrer Nar Ekşisi, or pomegranate sour, in the mail--direct from Antalya, Turkey. We fell in love with this stuff on our recent sojourn to the Mediterranean when it was served to us as a salad dressing, diluted with a mild-tasting oil and poured over greens. Now that we have this entire bottle of sweet, tangy, thick, deeply pomegranatey essence here in Seattle, we're wondering what else we could use it for. Cocktails? Could we bake with it somehow? How could we use this with meat? Any ideas?

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By Katelyn in Food on March 25, 2009 1:30 PM

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Simonian

Is it the same as pomegranate molasses? Because you can definitely get that at PFI a couple of blocks south of Oujimaya. Do you have ice cream making capacity? Because here is an amazing dish: make a basic sweet cream base for ice cream i.e. make vanilla ice cream but leave out the vanilla. Just before you put it in the ice cream maker stir in the pomegranate goodness. For a recipe that makes about a quart of ice cream I'd add about three tablespoons of the syrup. Don't add more than that the first time you make it and then adjust up or down the next time you make it. You will make it many times.

MonkeyPilot

Maybe you can use it as a salad dressing.

peter

use it as salad dressing, together with some nativ Olive oil, a bit of sugar an some jouce of lemon.

It's very healthy

Selam

Peter

http://www.antalya.de

peter

Hello from Antalya. You can use this concentrate as salat dressing, also can be mixed with some mineral water.

This pomegranatey essence is very good for your healthy!

Selam

Peter http://www.antalya.de

FreshPickedSeattle

If it's similiar to pomegranate molasses, Chow has a few boards about the topic, here's one. I've also been wanting to try it in a granita or sorbet, maybe with orange.

Katelyn

Great thinking, Jezbian--that sent me on a lengthy romp through some delicious-looking recipes, including this one http://www.pomegranateworld.com/grilled-chicken-pomegranate-marinade.html which I think I'll try.

Herbisara, I was thinking along the same lines. Or what about using it with champagne or instead of creme de cassis for a white wine aperatif?

Audrey

I would think it could be used in any cocktail that calls for Chambord.

herbisara

Sounds like it'd be a wonderful compliment to a vodka with club soda!

jezbian

I just had a most delicious stew at pacific market, a Persian market that's also a restaurant, this past weekend (out celebrating nawrooz, Persian new year) & that pomegranate wonderfulness was involved somehow...so i'd suggest looking up Persian recipes online.

I got a bottle of the stuff there @ the market so if you run out you can just head up to 123rd & lake city way to replenish. they have lots of pomegranate stuff for sale