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.
Burgers are actively included in our menu, and picnics are always waiting for them. They will brighten up the “waiting” for a barbecue, serve as a worthy pair for a mug of beer or scalding tea by the fire. I recommend it, these are very tasty burgers.
I borrowed the recipe from French cuisine, which I found on the Internet. In the original cake with dried tomatoes and baked peppers. The consumption of products will be given for one large cake, but I will make exactly half as much and take other ingredients for the filling: olives; bell pepper and ham. I’ll leave the dough with the same ingredients. Lots of cheese, and it’s delicious!!! Wonderful cake. Recommend.
The drumstick of a Turkey baked with orange slices, onion and garlic in a soy-honey-mustard coating. It is not only festive, looks beautiful on a plate, but also very tasty, tender and flavorful meat with the addition of baked vegetables!
A very rich hot dish, which in General does not require any special preparatory efforts, is prepared quickly and simply, and is suitable for dietary nutrition! Marinade based on mayonnaise, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar only enhances the taste of both vegetables and poultry.
A hot dog on a picnic is a gastronomic treat. If you want to please your loved ones, prepare hot dogs from homemade sausages (sausages) from Turkey minced meat with cabbage salad and something else… Come in!
Today I will have an unconventional picnic in the garden on the terrace and I will cook nests of pasta with minced Turkey under cheese in a deep frying pan. It is easy to prepare a dish in any conditions: in nature, in the garden, and at home. A hearty, delicious dish for those who love pasta with meat and thoroughly refresh themselves in the fresh air. I’ll make a live sauce for the nests.
Spicy, with lots of garlic and pepper, just fire – this dish turns, turns dish.. in the diet, if you reduce the above spices by 90 – 100 times! This hearty, healthy, rich in vegetable protein and extremely tasty treat will diversify Your diet. It can be used as a separate dish or as a side dish for meat or fish.
Some people like to eat solid food on picnics and nature. Today I will make meatballs from minced Turkey with vegetables and potatoes. A hearty meal. We can say that the first and second. I’ll make it in a wok. You can use a cauldron or a deep frying pan.
I offer you a Turkey kebab in pomegranate marinade. Pomegranate juice softens the meat well, making it very tender, and gives it a new, peculiar pleasant taste.