Marash Pepper
 

Does anyone know what this is? I frequently buy it at a farmers market here and it is sold in baggies, in flake form. I LOVE this stuff! It's a pimento type pepper I'm told, from Turkey, and it has a hot-sweet flavor. Use it in everything, chili, rice, any tomato dishes, on meats. It has a very unique flavor and I was wondering if it is a type of pepper I can grow myself.

I havent found much online except vendors selling it. I'd love to grow some and dry them if I can.

Seems that the closest I can find is Aleppo pepper and that is supposed to be hard to find, also. I remember a thread about that on gardenweb. It sounds as if it could actually be various varieties that grow in that area of Turkey. Aleppo is a Syrian pepper that is supposed to be somewhat similar. I'd like to find it, too.

The Chilewoman lists Aleppo [url]http://www.thechilewoman.com/listofchiles/heatscale/#6[/url]
but I don't know of any source for seeds for Aleppo or Marash. There's no listing in the SSE database for Marash.

I think it may be pronounced the way you spell it but I have always looked for it as maras and another one is urfa, I haven't found any seeds yet but I keep looking.

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I have a bit of OCD...lol...so yesterday I dumped the entire 8 oz jar I have into a bowl and went fishing. I found ONE seed. Normally there are none, so although it is stained a reddish color, if it hasn't been treated in any way, perhaps i can germinate it? Well, I'm at least going to try.

If you've never tried these, the beauty is that while if you use enough of it, it does have a hot bite, it's relatively mild and sweet but adds a totally unique flavor to everything. Had it this morning in my ho-hum usual scrambled eggs. yum!

I also have the Aleppo Pepper, but they do taste quite different to me. Aleppo is sharper, while the Marash is sweeter.

If you have any luck starting them, save some seeds for me, lol! Good luck!