Summer is a great time to eat all kinds of fruits and vegetables packed with sunshine and vitamins. But in winter, many residents of Russia suffer from a lack of bright colors and juicy vegetables. Therefore, there are wonderful ways to freeze, for example, such a healthy bell pepper for the winter.
Instructions
Step 1
Freezing fresh vegetables and berries is a real alternative to canned foods. Indeed, with the help of cold, you can preserve the maximum amount of nutrients, and when defrosting, the products will not differ in any way from fresh ones: the consistency, shape, aroma remain the same.
Step 2
Bell pepper is an ideal product for freezing in a refrigerator because it has dense and strong walls, it is well cut into slices, circles and halves, has excellent taste and is rich in vitamin C. It can be added to vegetable stews, various soups and even salads. …
Step 3
For harvesting, you need to choose good ripe peppers that are not damaged. Vegetables must be sorted out, washed thoroughly, cut off the stalk and peeled from seeds. Each pepper should be cut in half, and then put on a tray, which is prepared for freezing. When the pepper halves are neatly stacked, they should be placed in the freezer. The workpiece will become firm, then it can be placed in bags to save space. In the same way, you can freeze peppers in pizza slices or quarters, plates.
Step 4
The second way to freeze bell peppers is more time consuming, but the vegetables end up as fresh. Especially in this way it is good to freeze whole peppers, which will be used for stuffing in winter. The vegetables must be washed, sorted out, the caps removed, but not thrown away, the seeds must be removed. All peppers must be put in boiling water for half a minute, with such processing they will perfectly retain their taste and nutritional properties, and also will not change their shape when frozen. Vegetables processed in this way should be put into one another like a small train and put into bags, in which the caps from the peppers are also placed.
Step 5
Bell peppers can be baked before freezing. This will allow you to preserve the maximum vitamins and nutrients in the vegetable. For the recipe, you need to sort out the peppers, wash, cut off the lids and put the vegetables on a baking sheet. They should be baked for 30-40 minutes at 180 degrees. When the peppers are ready, they must be put in one pot and held there for about 30 minutes. After that, the vegetables are very easy to peel of skin and seeds. And then all the peppers must be placed in plastic containers with lids. In winter, such a product can simply be defrosted, cut, pepper and poured with vegetable oil, as a result, you will get a ready-made dish.
