Today we will offer you several recipes for preparations with bell pepper, which contains many vitamins and is good for health. Consider information on how to choose the appropriate fruits, and step-by-step recipes for cooking.
Did you know? The color of peppers also indicates their different composition. Substances of green fruits help in the fight against cholesterol, red competes with citrus fruits in the content of vitamin C, and in yellow, as in carrots, a lot of vitamin A.
How to choose and prepare bell peppers
To enjoy healthy vegetables in the winter, you can preserve it.
But before that you need to make the right choice of product and prepare it:
- vegetables should be not only clean, but also without rot and defects;
- ripeness of the fruit is also important - green ones have a savory taste;
- the fruits should be juicy and beautiful;
- When choosing products for stuffing, thick-walled barrel-shaped fruits should be used. For this purpose, such varieties as “Gift of Moldova”, “Golden Miracle”, “Bogatyr”, “Atlant” and others;
- small fruits weighing about 30-50 g are good for harvesting whole. These include the varieties "Gnomik", "Chanterelle", "Valentine" and others;
- for preservation in slices, large vegetables with fleshy and thick walls are preferred. These are the varieties: Hercules, Golden Bast, Alligator, Mastodon, etc .;
- the preparation of the fruit is usually indicated in the recipe - if specific recommendations are given, then you must adhere to them.
The most delicious canned sweet pepper recipes
If you are a young housewife, then start with simple recipes, and if you already have some experience, use the recipes more difficult.
Easiest recipe
- Wash the fruits, peel and cut into quarters, large specimens into 6 parts.
- Wash and sterilize jars. Prepare the marinade from sugar and salt, pour vinegar after boiling.
- In a boiling brine, place half of the vegetables so that they are covered with liquid. Cook no more than 8 minutes, so as not to be digested.
- Remove from heat and transfer fruits to prepared dishes. Do not pour the marinade, and cover the jars with boiled lids.
- In the brine, place 2 part of the fruit and repeat all that with 1 part.
- Pour all the cans with marinade and put them in a container of water for sterilization. Boil for 5 minutes, pull, roll, turn on the lids and wrap until cool.
Video recipe
The easiest recipe Video recipe: The easiest recipeIn honey fill
sunflower oil
1 tbsp. l
allspice
6–7 peas
- Prepare a brine of water, salt, sugar, honey and allspice. After boiling add vinegar.
- Washed, peeled and cut into slices the fruit pour into boiling brine. Boil for no more than 10 minutes.
- Place the vegetables in sterile jars and pour the marinade. Cover with boiled lids and roll up. Put on the lids and wrap well.
Did you know? Bell pepper, like chocolate, contains “hormones of happiness”.
No sterilization
refined vegetable oil
100 g
- Cut washed and peeled fruits into quarters.
- In a saucepan, prepare a mixture of oil and vinegar, add sugar and bring to a boil.
- Pour sliced vegetables and boil for about 10-12 minutes.
- Fill sterile jars with vegetables and pour boiling fill.
- Cover with sterile lids. Cork and wrap conservation.
For stuffing
1 can of 3 l
bell pepper
about 1.5 kg
dill, celery, basil
on a branch
salt
1 tbsp. l (no slide)
- In pure vegetables, remove the stalks and seeds.
- Dip a few peppers in boiling water and boil for about a minute.
- Transfer fruits, draining water from them, into a sterilized hot jar.
- Prepare the marinade from 1.5 liters of water, adding salt, sugar, black and allspice and herbs. Boil for about 5 minutes.
- Pour vinegar into a jar of vegetables and then boiling brine.
- Cork jars with sterile lids, turn over and wrap.
Important! If there was not enough marinade to fill the jar to the top, then you can add boiling water.
In tomato juice
sunflower oil
1 cup
hot pepper
1 PC. (chopped into small pieces)
- Wash, peel and chop the fruit into 6–8 parts.
- Boil the juice and add peeled and grated carrots to it. Cook for 15 minutes.
- Add the remaining components to the juice and pour out the fruits. Boil after boiling for 8-10 minutes.
- Pour into hot cans in sterile jars and roll them with boiled lids. Wrap inverted cans and leave to cool.
Fried
hot pepper
a small piece
sunflower oil
for frying
- Wash and dry whole fruits. Ponytails leave.
- Fry vegetables in oil on all sides (cover with a lid).
- Fruits are placed in sterile jars, mixed with chopped garlic.
- Add salt, sugar and vinegar to the container filled with vegetables. Pour boiling water over everything.
- Roll up and wrap.
With eggplant (Recipe 1)
salt
1 tbsp. on pepper and 2 tbsp. on eggplant
- Wash the washed eggplant in small slices, sprinkle with salt, and let it stand for half an hour.
- Sauté sliced pepper.
- Drain the water from the eggplant, rinse and fry too.
- Finely chop the greens with garlic.
- First lay eggplant (2 cm) in a container, then pepper (1 cm) and a little dressing of herbs with garlic. Stick to this sequence until the jar is full.
- Cover the cans with lids and put on sterilization. Boil liter containers for 1 hour, and 0.5 liter - about 40 minutes.
- Wrap ready-made preservation before cooling.
With Eggplant (Recipe 2)
sunflower oil
1 cup
- Cut vegetables in half rings (0.5 cm each). Sprinkled with salt eggplant leave for 20-30 minutes and then, draining the liquid, rinse.
- Bring tomato juice with spices and butter to a boil.
- Dip the fruits in a boiling mixture and boil for about 30 minutes over low heat, gently stirring.
- Arrange the finished salad in sterile containers and roll up. Wrap well and leave to cool.
With onions and garlic
ground black pepper
taste
sunflower oil (for frying)
as needed
- Sprinkle the fruit in circles (0.5 cm) with ground pepper and salt. Fry for a few minutes.
- Chop the onions in half rings and fry for 5-7 minutes in oil.
- Blanch the tomatoes and, having peeled them off, finely chop or twist in a meat grinder.
- Mix the tomato mixture with onions, salt and cook until smooth.
- In a sterile dish put alternately layers of peppers and sauce. Cover and sterilize for 10-15 minutes.
- Roll up the finished workpiece and wrap it well. Leave to cool.
Additional Cooking Tips
Here are some tips that will be useful to young housewives when preserving peppers:
- The cleanliness of dishes and products is one of the basic rules of conservation.
- Dishes and lids are sterile for an hour, then they need to be boiled again for about 5 minutes.
- For stuffing, it is better to take wide fruits (in the form of barrels), and for lecho - multi-colored and with thick walls.
- It is also important not only the taste, but also the aesthetic appearance, so take multi-colored fruits.
- The same wall thickness of peppers guarantees simultaneous cooking.
- When using sunflower oil, it is better to take refined in-store, rather than home-spin. Last time gives an unpleasant aftertaste to the workpieces.
We hope that you will use our recipes and you and your family will like them. Bon appetit and delicious blanks!