How to fry Bulgarian pepper

Gourmets appreciate the sweet pepper varieties for its fragrant vegetable aroma with spicy notes that complements many dishes. You can cook fleshy fruits as an independent snack with a minimum of ingredients. Our article presents a selection of several interesting recipes of Bulgarian pepper, which you can quickly fry without unnecessary trouble in the kitchen.

How to choose the sweet pepper to extinguish

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

1. Fragrant vegetables give a more piquant aftertaste, so you should choose the ripe fruit, which often exudes an appetizing flavor even in the window.Most of all it is noticeable with red and yellow pepper.
2. The more fleshy the fruit, the better it will be cooked.
3. Freshly harvested pepper always gives a more rich 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.

In the stewed and toasted richer assorted sweet peppers are revealed, because each of the varieties has its own flavor. Choose paprika, orange, yellow, green pepper, local garden varieties. Hot peppers will add a touch of light to some recipes, so you can safely take jalapeno, green hot pepper and a little chili.

Important! The main thing is that there are no traces of mold or darkened areas on the peppers.

How to cook pepper

There are a lot of recipes for pepper preparation: it is baked with whole peppercorns or stuffed. In this case, the filling can be meat, fish, and other vegetables — onions, carrots, celery, cauliflower, and also cereals. As a lenten dish, pepper is stuffed with rice and vegetables: corn, carrots, onions, parey, green beans.The stuffing for the filling is mixed not only with rice, but also with wheat or barley grits, and they cook a fry, as well as tomato sauce.

In the Caucasian cuisine there are such dishes as lecho. Pepper pickled in a sweet and sour sauce, acquiring unparalleled taste. Plate the pepper and you can fry in garlic sauce, stew in sour cream with basil.

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

Finely diced peppers are added to squash and eggplant caviar, saute and various vegetable stews. Thanks to the Bulgarian seasoning dishes become fragrant and acquire a soft southern flavor.

If you like moderate spiciness, sweet and sour sauces and dietary southern cuisine, which is nourishing and light for the body, you should definitely enrich your diet with bell pepper.

What seasonings are suitable for sweet peppers?

You can choose several flavors.

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

General recommendations for cooking peppers

To make the pepper on your table tasty and appealing, follow some important rules when processing it:

1. Before frying, the pepper must be washed and dried to avoid unnecessary splashes of oil.
2. To clean the pepper from bitter grains, which not only spoil the look, but also very distort the taste and impression of the dish, you need to cut off the "hat" with a tail and cut the core in a circle.
3. Juicy pepper stews perfectly in its own juice, so you can safely choose it for the preparation of dietary dishes. Roasting peppers does not require a lot of oil, just cover the peppers and the vegetable will be soft, tender and very easy to digest.
4. Pepper is cooked quickly, so in combination with other vegetables, it is added to the pan one of the last, otherwise the slices will burn, dry out or pick up with oil.

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 in a dish.

Tip! To remove the peel from the pepper, you can boil it for a short time in boiling water or cook it. After that, the outer skin will exfoliate, and the flesh will become soft and tasty.

Fry pepper in tomato sauce

One of the classic recipes with tomatoes and garlic presents us pepper inas a tasty snack or second course.

For cooking you will need:

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

Tomatoes must be peeled, for this they are cut with a cross and put boiling water for half a minute. Then the tomatoes get a slotted spoon or poured through a colander and pour cold water. After such a “contrasting soul”, the film exfoliates by itself.

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

Peppers can be roasted whole or peeled. The flesh is spread on the pan and cooked on all sides until golden brown.

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

Recipe for delicious grilling

To supplement the lean porridge, chops or fish patties, you can cook a quick dressing with sweet peppers and greens.

Take these ingredients:

• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Onion - 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 clean all vegetables. Chop the onion and pepper in half rings, and the carrot into strips, chop the greens. Heat the pan, pour the oil. First, fry the onions so that it becomes soft, add carrots, peppers and herbs, salt the vegetables and simmer under the lid until all the ingredients are soft. Before removing from the heat, add a little sugar and a tomato in the sauce (fresh tomato is cut into quarters of thin rings), stirred and left under the lid, turning off the heat.

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