Far from Civilization _ Red Pepper Harvest and Tomato Paste for Winter_

A mountain couple harvests ripe red peppers, carries the heavy load home, and processes them into delicious homemade chili paste for the winter, before cooking a traditional village meal over a wood fire.

Follow the entire red pepper harvesting process—from picking peppers across a vast mountain garden and filling buckets and large sacks, to washing, cleaning, and carefully processing them. The thick, homemade chili paste is carefully packed into glass jars and stored as a traditional winter staple.

After completing the winter preparations, we cook a hearty outdoor meal featuring homemade flatbread, eggplant, tomatoes, and fresh peppers. Everything is prepared by hand, using seasonal ingredients and traditional Azerbaijani village cooking methods.

Chapters:

00:00 Harvesting red peppers — Introduction to the mountain village
00:28 Harvesting red peppers in the mountain garden
05:18 Filling buckets and sacks with fresh peppers
09:02 Carrying and washing the garden harvest
12:46 Preparing red peppers for winter
17:32 Cooking traditional homemade chili paste
24:38 Preparing jars for winter storage and cooking a village meal

Sim Village Cooking is an authentic cooking project from a mountain village.
Here, we cook over wood fires, build our own tandoor and clay ovens, and use ingredients we grow ourselves.
There is no electricity or gas here—only fire, manual labor, and family.
This is not a scripted show or a staged video—this is our real life.
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