A fiery Bajoran dish of pickled filling rolled in flatbread, properly made strong enough to make the eyes water, and a favourite of Ro Laren.
Hasperat is a Bajoran speciality, a rolled wrap whose filling is soaked in a sharp brine. Bajorans judge it by its strength, and a good one is supposed to burn.
The dish is introduced in the Next Generation episode Preemptive Strike. Ro Laren, undercover among the Maquis, tells the cell leader Macias that her father made the strongest hasperat she ever tasted, and the shared memory of home cooking helps to draw her towards the old man and his cause.
Hasperat is then mentioned and eaten in Deep Space Nine, where it can be ordered on the Promenade, and Kira Nerys is among those who like it. It is one of a small group of foods, along with jumja sticks and springwine, that give Bajoran culture its everyday texture.