How to fry bell pepper

Gourmets appreciate the sweet pepper variety for its fragrant vegetable aroma with spicy notes that complements many dishes. You can cook meaty fruits as an independent snack with a minimum of components. Our article presents a selection of several interesting recipes for bell pepper, which can be quickly fried without too much trouble in the kitchen.

How to Choose Stewed Sweet Peppers

Almost everyone knows how to choose vegetables for salads - the main thing is that the products are fresh and juicy. There are several secrets to heat treatment:

1. Fragrant vegetables give a more piquant aftertaste, so you should choose ripe fruits, which often exude a mouth-watering aroma even in a display case. This is most noticeable with red and yellow shades.
2. The more fleshy the fruit, the better it will be prepared.
3. Freshly picked peppers always give a richer flavor, so pay attention to the appearance of the vegetable: the surface should be smooth, without wrinkles, and the stem is juicy and bright green.

Assorted sweet peppers are revealed in stewed and fried richer, because each of the varieties has its own shades of aroma. Choose paprika, orange, yellow, green pepper, local garden varieties. Hot peppers add a touch of light to some recipes, so you can safely take jalapenos, green hot peppers and a little chili.

Important! The main thing is that the peppers should not have any traces of mold or darkened areas.

How to cook pepper

There are a lot of recipes for cooking pepper: it is baked with whole peppercorns or stuffed. Filling in this case can be meat, fish, other vegetables - onions, carrots, celery, cauliflower, as well as cereals. As a lean dish, peppers are stuffed with rice and vegetables: corn, carrots, steamed onions, green beans. Stuffing for the filling is mixed not only with rice, but also with wheat or barley grits, and they are cooked by frying, as well as tomato sauce.

Caucasian cuisine has dishes such as lecho. Pepper is pickled in sweet and sour sauce, acquiring an incomparable taste. Pepper plates can also be fried in garlic sauce, stewed in sour cream with basil.

The most common and universal, and most importantly, a quick way to cook pepper, is to peel it, cut into rings and fry in oil with the addition of other vegetables or tomato paste. Such pepper becomes a good vegetable sauce for cereals and meat or dressing for the first dishes (borsch, cabbage soup). Vegetable filling makes dishes healthy, enriches food with fiber and vitamins, and also gives a unique aroma.

Peppers finely diced are added to squash and eggplant caviar, sauté and various vegetable stews. Thanks to the Bulgarian seasoning, the dishes become fragrant and acquire a mild southern flavor.

If you like moderate spice, sweet and sour sauces and dietary southern cuisine, hearty and light for the body, you should definitely enrich your diet with bell pepper dishes.

What seasonings are suitable for sweet pepper?

You can choose several options for flavoring mixtures.

1. If you want to cook pepper diet - focus on South European cuisine, use olive oil, bay leaf, add lemon juice, basil, nutmeg. When pepper dressing is served with fish, you can add rosemary, onions, parsley, and celery.
2. From vegetables, pepper is in good harmony with tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, parsnips, onions, broccoli and white or Brussels sprouts.
3. To cook a pronounced spicy dish of southeastern cuisine, add turmeric, curry, saffron, garlic to pepper. In some recipes, peppers are combined with cinnamon, cloves, fennel.
4. Spicy Mexican dishes are usually complemented by hot chili, black pepper, garlic, onions, beans and corn.
5. Northern cuisine has brought its flavor to the culture of cooking peppers, adding berries, roots and nuts to the vegetable.

General recommendations for the preparation of peppers

To make pepper on your table tasty and attractive, follow a few important rules when processing it:

1. Before frying, the pepper must be washed and dried to avoid excessive splashes of oil.
2. To clean the pepper from bitter grains, which not only spoil the view, but also greatly distort the taste and impression of the dish, you need to cut off the “hat” with the tail and cut the core in a circle.
3. Juicy peppers are perfectly stewed in their own juice, so you can safely choose it for cooking diet dishes. To fry pepper, you do not need a lot of oil, just cover the peppers with a lid - and the vegetable will be soft, tender and very easy to digest.
4. Pepper is cooked quickly, therefore, in combination with other vegetables, it is added to the pan one of the last, otherwise the slices will burn, dry out or fill with butter.

Do not forget that pepper contains a fairly high level of natural sugars. This must be taken into account when calculating the amount of salt per dish.

Advice! To peel peppers, it can be boiled for a short time in boiling water or baked. After that, the outer peel will peel off, and the flesh will become soft and tasty.

Fry pepper in tomato sauce

One of the classic recipes with tomatoes and garlic presents us with pepper as a delicious snack or main course.

For cooking you will need:

• Tomatoes - 500 g.
• Garlic - 4 prongs.
• Sunflower oil - 50 g.
• Ground black pepper, coriander, salt, sugar - to taste.
• Sunflower oil - 50 g.
• Fresh basil - 3-4 branches.
• Fresh sweet pepper - 4 amount

Tomatoes need to be peeled, for this they are incised with a cross and put boiling water for half a minute. Then the tomatoes are pulled out with a slotted spoon or drained through a colander and poured with cold water. After such a "contrasting shower" the film exfoliates by itself.

The sauce is stewed for about 30 minutes under a lid, after which it is removed from the heat and allowed to cool. You can grind the finished mixture with a blender until smooth.

Peppers can be fried whole or peeled. The pulp is spread on a frying pan and cooked on all sides until a golden crust is formed.

Preparing a vegetable snack 40-60 minutes. Serve the dish, pouring sauce and decorating with fresh herbs. Such peppers go well with fish, meat, cereals or as a separate dish.

Delicious Roast Recipe

To complement lean porridge, meatballs or fish cakes, you can cook a quick dressing with bell pepper and herbs.

Take these ingredients:

• Bell pepper - 1 pc.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Basil, oregano fresh or dried.
• Tomato - 1 pc. Or 1 tbsp. tomato paste.
• Ground coriander, salt, sugar.
• Sunflower oil.

Wash and peel all vegetables. Chop the onion and pepper in half rings, and carrots with straws, chop the greens. Preheat the pan, pour oil. First, fry the onions to make them soft, add carrots, peppers and herbs, salt the vegetables and simmer under the lid until all the ingredients are soft.Before removing from heat, add a little sugar and tomato to the sauce (fresh tomato is cut into quarters of thin rings), mix and leave under the lid, turning off the heat.

Video: how to cook a delicious fried bell pepper with garlic