Bulgarian sweet pepper can be eaten both raw and cooked. Like the related chili pepper, sweet varieties are sometimes dried and ground. Such powdered spice of non-volatile varieties is called paprika. Although in Hungarian culinary practice, where paprika has become particularly widespread, there is also a sharp burning paprika, which includes pepper seeds containing burning capsaicin. All kinds of paprika are added to dishes to give them varying degrees of spice and special flavors. In addition, paprika is often used as a dye in the manufacture of sausage and other meat products. Peppers of any color are used for food, but when selecting fruits, it should be taken into account that green (unripe) and purple vegetables have a slightly bitter taste, and red, orange and yellow have sweeter, almost fruity “notes”.
How to Cook with Bell Pepper?
Sweet peppers perfectly complement fried meat dishes, go well with stewed pork and chicken. In real French ratatouille, Hungarian and Bulgarian lecho, Hungarian goulash and paprikash, Turkish gyuveche, sweet pepper is one of the important ingredients. Fruits baked in the oven or on a charcoal grill acquire a particularly expressive aroma and taste. Fresh and pickled peppers get along harmoniously with scrambled eggs and omelette.
How to Choose and Store Sweet Bell Peppers?
When choosing sweet pepper, preference should be given to hard-to-the-touch fruits of bright color with glossy, dry and smooth skin without damaged areas (without dark putrefactive spots and cracks). On yellow peppers, spots of red, green or orange colors are acceptable, on orange – red or yellow. Bright spotting, as a rule, will indicate incomplete ripening of fruits, although such peppers can be bought. The peduncle from which the fruit is torn off should not be dried or black. Its drying is a sign of long–term storage, and the moisture content of the skin around the “tail” is a sign of the beginning of rotting. Regardless of the degree of ripening, it is better to keep pepper in the refrigerator, but at the same time, unripe fruits (at the stage of technical maturity), when stored for up to 2-3 months, are first placed in a relatively warm compartment of the refrigerator (about +10 ° C), and then, after acquiring a bright uniform color skin, they are moved to a cold compartment (0-1 °C).
Peppers already ripe at the time of purchase are placed in the cold compartment immediately. They are packed in plastic bags or placed in trays lined with crumpled porous paper to absorb excess moisture and create air pockets that provide ventilation. To preserve Bulgarian pepper until the next season, freezing in the freezer is used. To do this, the pepper is washed, the stalk and seeds are removed, and then dried well. You can freeze whole cups by inserting them into each other, as well as sliced fruits. But it should be borne in mind that even in frozen form, pepper gradually, albeit slowly, loses its flavor.
Tortilla (tortilla) (Spanish tortilla — “small tortilla”, abbreviated. from cakes — thin tortillas made of corn or wheat flour, eaten mainly in Mexico, Central America and the United States. In Mexico, tortillas are one of the national dishes. (Wikipedia) Mexican cuisine is known to abound in spicy food. I hardly eat spicy food, unless there is very, very little of it. I want a pie with a delicious filling. I will share with you the recipe for the filling, which I cook myself. Let’s say it’s so tender, but very tasty.
A hearty, vitamin-rich and bright salad for a festive lean table, which can also become your full-fledged dinner, thanks to the content of a large amount of vegetable protein and an abundance of vegetables.
I tried this pesto at a culinary exhibition, we really liked it and we bought a jar and, as a rule, I read the composition and repeat the recipe at home)) Very tasty and spicy, well suited to potatoes, pasta and just a piece of bread..
This is my favorite vegetable side dish, which I cook in summer and winter. The flavors of different vegetables are intertwined in it. Such a side dish always turns out with a bang, and when it is cooked, there is a delicious smell in the kitchen. You can cook with fresh and frozen vegetables. I present to your attention the winter version. In summer, cooked with fresh vegetables, it turns out even tastier. Delicious, both hot and cold.
A delicious dinner of chicken liver and potatoes will not leave you indifferent. It is prepared quickly, and the result is tender. I once found the recipe on the Internet, adapting it to the taste of our family.
When I started cooking, I didn’t even think it would turn out SO delicious. We really went to a luxurious dinner))) True, it’s a little troublesome, but such trifles do not frighten us! Come on in, I’ll share the recipe.
