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.
A delicious dish for lovers of cabbage and mushrooms. And the abundance of seasonings and spices will make it even more rich in taste. A great option for a family lunch-dinner in the cold autumn.
Sushi sandwiches is a Japanese delicious sandwiches, representing a variety of toppings between two molded out of rice cakes. Sushi, but only flat, in a European way. Very convenient “ssoboyki” – even for a picnic, even for work, even on a long journey. Toppings for sushi sandwiches can be prepared to your taste, today I have a juicy Turkey with crispy vegetables and spinach.
Tender and juicy cutlets, “seasoned” with zucchini, are cooked on the grill. A great addition to dinner at the dacha will be a sauce of baked pepper. Wooden skewers must first be soaked in water.
I don’t even know what to call this dish. The cooking technology is similar to “Lazy cabbage rolls”, only instead of cabbage, bell pepper. You can say that this is a vegetable stew with minced meat and rice. But whatever you call it, it’s delicious, beautiful, healthy, flavorful, perfect for a family lunch or dinner.
Tender, juicy, slightly sweet squash flesh and delicious savory filling-this is the secret of the popularity of this dish! Interesting shape and bright colors of vegetables excite the appetite and create a good mood!
In the fall, you want something hearty and thorough at a picnic. I suggest you try a cupcake with cheese dough and schnitzel filling with sweet paprika and fragrant dill.
Autumn pastries, in my opinion, are the most delicious, most homely and cozy. Warms both literally and figuratively. I propose to bake today pies-boats with fried vegetables and cheese. Sorry for the indiscretion, but I boldly say ” unreal DELICIOUS! insanely BEAUTIFUL and DELICIOUS!”. Recommend.
Delicious, tender gravy with mushrooms and bell pepper. Creamy due to the sour cream, and spicy, thanks to the mustard. Interesting, harmonious taste will leave the most pleasant impressions.
