A great appetizer or an additional ingredient to the main course - of course, this is bell pepper. Housewives prepare various snacks, salads from it during the harvest season, prepare it for the winter, stuff it or dry it. Try yourself to cook original and mouth-watering pickles from sweet pepper and garlic at home.
Bell pepper belongs to the hollow fruits of the herbaceous annual of the Solanaceae family. The false berry has a very dense shell with a seed leg located inside. It is rich in a high content of lycopene, B vitamins, PP, macro and microelements, organic acids and other valuable substances.
The fruit is appreciated for its juiciness, combination with many products, spices, herbs. It is both heat treated and good fresh. Especially vegans like it, as it serves as a great snack or full-value food that does not affect the figure and gives the body fullness.
Pickled bell pepper
A classic recipe for preparing a unique pepper for the winter at home.
Ingredients:
- 1 liter of water;
- 350 grams of sugar;
- 150 grams of salt;
- 400 ml of vegetable oil;
- 6 cloves of garlic;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar;
- 3 leaves of lavrushka;
- 1 bunch of parsley / dill;
- 5 kg of sweet pepper.
Cooking method:
- Peel the garlic and cut into thin rings, finely chop the herbs.
- Pour water into a saucepan, add all ingredients except pepper, bring to a boil.
- Wash the pepper, remove the stalks and core with seeds, divide into slices.
- Dip them in boiling brine, boil for five minutes, periodically turn the slices.
- With kitchen tongs, spread the strips of pepper in pasteurized jars, fill to the top, do not tamp.
- Pour with brine, twist, leave at room temperature for a day.
Delicious garlic pepper is ready. Help yourself! Store in a cool place.
Bulgarian pepper with vegetables
Prepare the following ingredients:
- tomatoes, carrots, onions - 1 kg each;
- sweet pepper - 3 kg;
- apples - 5 pcs.;
- garlic - 1 cup peeled cloves;
- spices to taste;
- apple cider vinegar - 100 ml.
Step-by-step cooking:
- Thoroughly wash all vegetables and fruits, remove excess moisture, cut out the cores, shake out the seeds, peel.
- Scroll tomatoes, carrots, garlic and apples through a meat grinder, pour into a high saucepan. Put on moderate heat, let it boil.
- Cut the pepper into medium pieces, chop the onion finely. Put in a boiling tomato mass, boil for 20 minutes.
- Add spices, vinegar, boil for 3 minutes, put in prepared jars, close tightly.
- Keep on the table until it cools completely, rearrange it in the cabinet.
A good option for a light snack, which is very easy to prepare. The workpiece can be stored at room temperature.
Garlic peppers in apple juice
Ingredients:
- 4 kg of pepper;
- 500 grams of tomatoes;
- 3 onions;
- 1 bay leaf per jar;
- 3 liters of apple juice;
- 1 bunch of green parsley
- garlic, salt, refined sugar.
Step by step:
- Wash the pepper, remove the seed stalk, make several punctures in each fruit with a toothpick.
- Peel the garlic, rinse, put 5-6 cloves in each pepper.
- Wash the tomatoes, divide into halves, close each fruit like a lid with one half of a tomato.
- Put the semi-finished product in sterile jars without pressing the peppers hard. Fill the top of the jar with the remaining halves of the tomatoes.
- Boil water and pour in the prepared conservation, cover with lids, leave until the water cools completely.
- Put apple juice, salt, spices, herbs in a saucepan, let it boil, remove the foam.
- Free the jars from the liquid (just drain into a separate bowl), pour in boiling juice with spices, roll up, turn over to the lids and leave for a day. Wrap up with a warm blanket.
You will get an interesting snack pepper that goes well with any meat.
Hot seasoning from a mixture of peppers
Prepare the following ingredients:
- Bulgarian pepper - 3 kg;
- red hot pepper - 1000 g;
- garlic - 1 head;
- essence - 1 teaspoon per liter of liquid;
- salt, sugar, lavrushka, coriander - to taste.
Step by step:
- First you need to prepare hot peppers. Wash it, cut off the cap, divide it into two parts, remove the core and all the seeds. Divide into several parts. Work with gloves.
- Do the same with bell peppers, but without gloves. Peel and cut the garlic with plastics in advance.
- Put the cloves of garlic on the bottom of the jar, then pour the mixture of peppers with boiling water, leave on the table for 2 hours. After the time has elapsed, drain the water into a measuring container, pour into a saucepan.
- Put all the spices, let it boil, pour in the essence at the rate of the resulting volume of liquid, hold for one minute over high heat. Reduce the gas and fill the blanks with the resulting marinade, roll up.
After the cans have cooled, rearrange to storage.
This is a common way to make hot peppers. It is suitable for use in any dish, does not take up much space and is stored outside the refrigerator.
Sweet peppers in honey filling
Products:
- 4 kg of bell pepper;
- 2 liters of clean water;
- 400 grams of sugar;
- 400 ml of vegetable oil;
- 4 st. spoons of salt and natural honey;
- 300 ml vinegar;
- 2 cloves of garlic.
Step by step guide:
- Prepare vegetables. Wash, towel dry, remove contents, cut into slices.
- Pour water into a high saucepan, add all bulk and liquid products.
- After the brine has boiled, lower the prepared plastics and cook over high heat for 15 minutes.
- Pour in vinegar, squeeze the garlic through a press, cook for three minutes.
- Divide the workpiece into sterilized jars, roll it up.
- Withstand the wrapped twist for a couple of days, rearrange to a cool place.
An original appetizer for the winter is ready! Bon Appetit!
A little trick to note. If you first boil a bay leaf with peppercorns in water, the aroma and taste will be a little spicy.
Pepper in oil marinade
An easy and simple recipe for a delicious pepper will require the following ingredients:
- unflavored oil - 500 ml;
- sweet peas / cloves - 5 g;
- garlic - 1 head;
- hot pepper - ½ pod;
- granulated sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt - 1 tbsp. the spoon;
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- vinegar essence - 2 tsp.
How to cook:
- Wash and peel the peppers, remove all seeds, cut into halves.
- Remove the husk from the garlic, chop in medium pieces.
- Pour oil into a deep saucepan, add garlic, chili, spices, heat over medium heat.
- Dip the halves of the fruit into boiling oil, boil for 7-10 minutes, stir occasionally.
- Last of all, fill in the greens crumbled with middle segments, let it simmer for 5 minutes.
- Transfer to prepared containers, roll up, turn on the lid, wrap.
- Leave to cool slowly for a day, put in a cool place.
Peppers prepared in this way can be used as an additional ingredient in soups, main courses and sandwiches.
Calorie content
There are only 27 kcal per one hundred-gram serving of pepper. The product contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates in a proportion of 1.5-0-6 g.
Useful qualities and contraindications
Regular inclusion of bell pepper in the diet helps to strengthen the cardiovascular system, normalize metabolic processes in the body and intestines. It helps to strengthen the immune system, eliminate iron deficiency, helps to inhibit the development of atherosclerosis, cancer. Well, for those who care about their figure and periodically go on diets, it helps to reduce weight without stress for the body.
However, excessive consumption of raw pepper with chronic stomach diseases, epilepsy and high blood pressure is not recommended. It is worth eating only in exceptional cases, and only after heat treatment.
