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.
I want to treat you to a delicious salad! Quick and easy, but you will enjoy it, I assure you! And it is impossible to break away from the tender chicken breast at all!
Soft, in structure resembling a moist bread-brick. As a basis, I took the dough for a snack cake, but added my own fillings. I like that you can not fry the liver and take it out of the freezer. We also like baked bell peppers, but you can add them to the dough in chunks. If you exclude olives, it is quite budget-friendly. Shape size: 23 cm by 9.5 cm bread Height: 8 cm in the center
A lot of filling and little dough, which is impregnated with the filling and becomes invisible. When slicing, the pie holds its shape well. I recommend it in a warm form. I cooked from beet pita bread and minced chicken with my favorite additives. Pie height-7 cm Shape diameter-20 cm
I want to offer you a simple, but no less delicious salad with chicken and fresh vegetables. The salad is prepared quickly from available products. And probably the beauty of this salad is its simplicity.
The male half of our family does not understand such salads, and my daughter and I really like them. And most importantly, there are many options for making this salad.
Potatoes with spices and vegetables: bell pepper; onion; garlic, rolled in white breadcrumbs and olive oil, baked in the oven. This is practically an independent dish, but you can also use it as a side dish to some meat or fish. Suitable for a festive table. This is a very tasty potato!
Here is such a pide prepared in our Turkish hotel. This tortilla with meat was served for lunch and dinner, with soup, meat, salad, and the children ate just like that. I liked this dish so much that I asked for a recipe and even attended a personal master class with the chef of our hotel. This is a real recipe for Turkish pide – thin crispy dough, spicy, juicy, meat filling, without cheese, eggs and milk – this is not pizza!
My favorite salad at home. You can add to this salad any ingredients that Vann likes to diversify the recipe. For example, asparagus, spinach, radish or grated cheese are perfect.
If you like mayonnaise, then do not replace the dressing with it, just add it to the oil and sauces – it’s more useful.
