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.
We offer to prepare colorful pickled broccoli and cauliflower for the vegetable table, which look very impressive on a plate and will decorate your lean dishes.
This is my favorite holiday salad. I tried it ten years ago and fell in love almost immediately. Since then, I’ve been trying to cook as often as possible. It is very good to serve it on a festive table – it has few calories, and it can be safely consumed throughout the evening without exposing yourself to the pangs of conscience. Constant use and enjoyment of taste. If you have your own broccoli, then you can not blanch it with boiling water, but put it in a raw salad.
Minestrone is an Italian dish, a light soup of seasonal vegetables, sometimes with pasta or rice. Minestrone is one of the most common dishes in Italy. Soup with lots of ingredients. Try to cook – you will like it.
Since this process is actually constant, and you want to eat not only healthy, but also delicious, invented (or eat) these are the recipes. The advantages are obvious: it is prepared easily and quickly, a lot of protein, a minimum of fats and carbohydrates, so you can eat a decent portion, besides really tasty! Let’s start cooking!
Avocado helps to lower the level of bad cholesterol, protects against coronary heart disease and contains a bunch of useful vitamins! For those who are not familiar with avocado, the taste of this fruit is somewhat oily, creamy and, it seems to me, a little nutty.
For me, this recipe was a revelation. It would seem that ordinary pasta… however, the way they were prepared was a revelation for me. I’ve never had pasta so delicious!
I have one favorite recipe, which is low-calorie, dietary, but very tasty and beautiful. Perhaps it will be kind to you, because festive food should be delicious and light.
Chicken fillet baked with vegetables and cheese. A beautiful, bright and appetizing dish that is prepared very simply and quickly. But for all its simplicity, it will look decent on a festive table.
We always cook the tongue for the New Year, and almost always a quarter is not eaten. And for three years now, I’ve been putting a piece on purpose so that I can cook this salad later. Incredibly delicious and light. Tender boiled tongue, crispy vegetables, spicy onions. I highly recommend it. By the way, there is a stalked celery in the original, but we are not fans of this wonderful vegetable.