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.
No matter what samsa is-triangular, square or round, in any version – it is always delicious and satisfying. Traditionally, samsa is baked in a tandoor, but there are many variations of samsa that are prepared in ovens. Samsa is usually served with tomato sauce, garlic and herbs. Here is one of these options for samsa and sauce, I suggest you cook it too.
Khachapuri dog is a great option for children to go to school, for a picnic, and for adults to take with them to work, this option of a delicious snack will be very good. A khachapuri dog is a cross between a hot dog and a khachapuri. In all the famous hot dogs, in my opinion, ordinary buns are “boring”. I decided to experiment and combine khachapuri with their juicy and rich inner cheese world and hot dog. I think the experiment was a success – it turned out juicy, satisfying, fragrant and most importantly – delicious.
A very simple but delicious dish for a family meal. You can serve as an independent dish, or as a side dish. Rice turns out to be rich in the aromas of mushrooms and vegetables. It is also possible to use the remaining rice cooked the day before.
Warm beef salad is my favorite salad, perfect for a light dinner. The right combination of vegetables and protein, and with a soy sauce dressing-you can lick your fingers.
Once again, I prove that delicious things can be useful, and useful things can be delicious. Fragrant soup-stew of fish and vegetables. This is both the first and the third time at the same time.