What can be made from bell peppers, preparing snacks, canning
It adds a unique spicy aroma to pickles and canned vegetables, and itself serves as the main product for preparing cold and hot snacks.
Sweet pepper, and this is what we will be talking about, is an excellent source of vitamins; due to its taste, it is extremely popular among chefs and is included in a large number of dishes.
Let's look at what can be made from bell peppers, how to prepare a vegetable grown on your own plot for the winter.
Content:
- What can you make from bell peppers for the winter?
- Cold bell pepper appetizers
- What can be made from green bell peppers
- Bell pepper: salad recipes
- Freezing
What can you make from bell peppers for the winter?
Seaming becomes a real treasure for any housewife in winter: salads, adjika, marinades, this list goes on and on.
In order to provide your family with sweet peppers in winter, you can turn to one of the recipes.
| Pickled peppers | To prepare you will need at least 3 kg of fleshy red and yellow peppers, nine percent vinegar, one glass of vegetable oil, half a glass of sugar, a few tablespoons of salt, a head of garlic, a small spoon of black peppercorns, a bunch of parsley, cloves and bay leaves | To begin with, it is recommended to wash the vegetables, removing the stem and core, and then cut them into strips. Mix half a liter of water with a glass of vinegar, oil, salt and sugar in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil and add the chopped vegetables to the pan. After the mixture boils again, simmer for ten minutes under a closed lid, stirring from time to time. Place spices, garlic and bay leaves at the bottom of pre-sterilized jars, then fill the jars with stewed product and close tightly |
| Pepper in honey sauce | You will need a kilogram of selected vegetables, four tablespoons of honey and the same amount of vinegar, three teaspoons of vegetable oil and two salts, spices | Washed vegetables must be cored and cut into strips, which must be placed in jars, pour boiling water over them and let stand for ten minutes. At this time, it’s worth making the marinade - pour honey into a small container, add spices. Pour water from the jars into the same container and bring the mixture to a boil, pour the marinade into the jars, and seal with lids. After cooling, store the seam |
| Roasted peppers | It is recommended to give preference to small-sized specimens, take at least two and a half kilograms, a head of garlic, a third of a glass of vinegar, a glass of sugar, a tablespoon of sugar, a pod of pepper and vegetable oil | The washed, cored fruits should be cut and fried until crusty, stirring occasionally. Place the prepared dish in sterilized jars in layers, sprinkling each layer with garlic and ground black pepper. On the last layer, pour salt and sugar into a jar and fill it with boiling water and vinegar. Turn the jar over and let it cool, after which you can store it |
Sealing prepared from the summer will delight everyone on cold winter evenings.
Such dishes are suitable both as an independent dish and as a supplement.
Cold bell pepper appetizers
In addition to winter preparations and summer salads, bell peppers are included in many appetizers.
Easy and quick to prepare, they will be a real boon for picnics and snacks.
| Pepper and tomato appetizer | For one serving you will need one tomato, one pepper, a bunch of onion feathers, hard cheese and 75 g butter, sausage | To prepare, you need to cut off the top of the fruit and remove the core. Chop the sausage and onion, mix in a separate plate with butter, add grated cheese and stuff the vegetables with the mixture, then put them in the refrigerator. After two to three hours you can take it out, cut into circles and serve. |
| Stuffed with garlic and melted cheese | For one serving you will need one fruit, cheese, a boiled egg, a bunch of onions, salt and garlic to taste, 30 g of mayonnaise | Grate the cheese and egg, mix with chopped onion and garlic, add mayonnaise, seasonings and mix. Start and, as in the previous recipe, put in the refrigerator and chop |
In addition to light snacks that can be prepared in a few hours, any of the rolls can serve as cold snacks.
So you don’t have to roll up the pickled peppers, but serve them to the table in just a few days.
A few more useful recipes are in the video:
What can be made from green bell peppers
In most recipes, the yellow or red pod plays a starring role, but don't underestimate the green one.
It is also included in many interesting dishes.
| Adjika | To prepare it you will need: four fruits and the same number of bunches of cilantro, a pod of red hot pepper, a head of garlic and a teaspoon of salt | Pass all the ingredients through a meat grinder, add spices and you can eat |
| In Korean | The main thing in preparing the dish are spices: carefully mixed salt, sugar and garlic, one glass at a time. To the resulting mixture you need to add a teaspoon of cumin, cilantro and ground black pepper. The prepared seasoning is enough for 6 kg of fruits | Lubricate the pre-cleaned pods with seasoning and let it brew for ten hours. The juice that appears should be drained, then put the pods in a jar, add a liter of boiled water mixed with juice and 0.5 liters of vinegar |
| Italian appetizer | You will need: pepper, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, herbs, vegetable oil | You need to cut the pods into strips, dry them and place them on a baking sheet. Drizzle with oil and bake for twenty minutes. After cooking, prepare a jar, place parsley, basil, mint on the bottom, place baked vegetables on top of it and place another layer of spices on top of it. Pour a quarter spoon of sea salt into a jar and pour in the same amount of apple cider vinegar and olive oil. Sterilize the filled jar and roll it up |
Green peppers are in no way inferior in taste to other types.
The main thing when choosing fruits is to give preference to fleshy pods without signs of damage.
Bell pepper: salad recipes
Sweet pepper salads have long gained well-deserved popularity, complementing any everyday dinner, adding something new to it.
Quite interesting and easy to prepare salads can be prepared in a matter of minutes at minimal cost.
| Salad with carrots and chicken fillet | To prepare, you will need one piece of the main ingredients. The meat cut into strips is fried over medium heat for five minutes, spices to taste. | The meat cut into strips is fried over medium heat for five minutes, spices to taste. After cooking the meat, mix it with pepper cut into strips, grated carrots, and garlic. Stir, add spices if necessary, season with mayonnaise and serve |
| Chicken liver salad | You will need one vegetable, one liver, 100 g of canned beans, one tomato and onion, a teaspoon of vinegar, a tablespoon of soy sauce, mustard beans, two slices of crackers and a bunch of lettuce leaves | Cut the liver into two parts in advance and wash well under running water, place in a frying pan greased with vegetable oil and place on medium heat for ten minutes. While the liver is cooking, place the beans in a sieve and rinse, cut the onion into rings, cut the tomato into small cubes and the pepper into strips. Place vegetables and liver in a large plate and mix. For dressing, you can use a mixture of oil, mustard vinegar. After mixing the ingredients, sprinkle the salad with grated croutons and lettuce leaves |
Freezing
Before you start freezing, it is important to pay special attention to the selection of peppers. It is recommended to give preference to juicy and large fruits. They will need to be washed and dried on a paper towel. The latter is especially important since the presence of excess moisture leads to fruit sticking together.
During direct preparation, you need to cut off the top part and remove the core.
Then you can choose the option that suits you best:
- Cut the vegetables into small cubes and put them in the refrigerator;
- Cut into strips, place on a tray and place in the freezer until completely frozen. After the pieces have hardened, place them in containers.
For packaging, you can use regular bags or buy special polyethylene for freezing. Even simple containers will do; the issue of capacity is not important.
But is it necessary to cut the fruits? Is it possible to freeze the peppers completely? You can, but first you need to carefully remove the core. After that, put them in a bag and close it tightly, releasing excess air.
The last method, which is no less famous, is freezing stuffed vegetables. It is especially convenient because such a semi-finished product solves the problem of a quick dinner.
Whatever freezing method you choose, it is important to consider that the storage temperature of the preparations should not exceed - 18 C. Otherwise, there is a danger that the vegetables will spoil.
If you follow the storage rules, pepper supplies will last until next year. Thus, there will be no shortage of supplies of this product until the new harvest.
Frozen vegetables can be used to prepare roasts for soups and vegetable casseroles. Whole frozen ones are suitable for subsequent stuffing and differ little in taste from fresh ones.
When using a frozen product, it is important to consider that re-freezing is highly undesirable, as this may negatively affect its taste.
Therefore, when using it, you should chop off the amount of vegetables you need, and send the rest of the supplies, without allowing them to defrost, back to the freezer.
We invite you to watch a video about freezing food:
Freezing and subsequent use of bell peppers prepared in this way includes a number of features that should not be overlooked. However, if you take into account all the nuances, such vegetables will bring variety to any meal.
Dishes made from bell peppers have long been firmly established in the diet of many families, which is not surprising. Specific taste, ease of preparation, abundance of options for use - all this is a significant plus in the direction of the vegetable.
Comments
I use this pepper quite actively in food, but I can’t say that I like its taste. I eat lecho for the tomato, stuffed peppers for the filling, and frankly, I’m not too upset if I don’t find it in my refrigerator. Although I eat most of these dishes with pleasure.
And I love pepper and all dishes with it. Stuffed peppers should be simmered, then the juice from the minced meat will mix with the onion and carrot frying and the peppers themselves will be a delicacy! And if you cook the chicken in the oven with peppers and onions, then its taste is much more interesting.
My grandmother makes stuffed peppers, it turns out very tasty, and in general peppers are actively added to various salads, for example, to borscht. Pepper is an integral and irreplaceable product in the kitchen.
My mom makes a delicious snack. The bell pepper is cut into thin boats and the boats are stuffed with ground garlic and red pepper, and everything is covered with oil. It sounds very spicy, but in fact the snack is just what you need. It turns out spicy.
My husband loves stuffed peppers, and I like vegetable salads with peppers, which I can preserve for the winter.I really love lecho with bell peppers, tomatoes and carrots. In winter, it is these preparations that are eaten first.