Midsummer and early fall are the most convenient time for preparing home-made preparations for the winter. In this case, one of the most common products for this can be considered bell pepper. It contains a large number of different vitamins, it has a relatively low price, and its use is necessary in many different dishes. This is what makes the preparation of pepper almost a priority.
The development of modern technology, namely the emergence of freezers with dry freezing, has enabled many housewives to preserve almost all the vitamins and useful elements in harvested vegetables and fruits. This is especially true for bell pepper, which not only tolerates frost well, but can also be quite conveniently located in the refrigerator. To do this, wash the pepper, cut out the core with seeds from it, and then insert each pepper into the resulting hole. Thus, pepper blanks will take up little space in the freezer. After that, it can be distributed in plastic bags in the required quantity at one time and placed in a freezer with dry freezing.
Other types of harvesting from bell pepper suggest its conservation. At the same time, it is pickled in a special brine of 0.5 l of vinegar, 1 cup of sugar and three tablespoons of salt. Various spices are usually added for taste, among which there should be garlic, bay leaf and peppercorns. Such a recipe involves the receipt of ordinary pickled pepper, which can be immediately eaten. However, in this state, it can not be used for all recipes. That is why most chefs recommend immediately harvesting whole dishes of bell pepper.
Many pepper preparations for the winter are ready-made dishes that, when you open the jar, you can immediately eat. Among them you can find such common recipes as lecho, Ukrainian salad , lazy peppers, etc. However, most housewives also prefer to preserve peppers along with other vegetables. Such pepper blanks are a kind of assorted. It is prepared according to the recipe of other vegetables, and pepper is added for taste, but at the same time it can be used separately after extraction from the can.
One of the most popular recipes for harvesting pepper is to use it as a shell for other vegetables. In this way, separately pickled vegetables and whole pickled peppers are obtained, which can be used to prepare various dishes and even fry in a pan. If the peppers are stuffed with minced vegetables, then by itself it already represents a good dish and can be served in this form to the table. However, in some cases it is recommended to peel it.
There are never many winter preparations. It is always nice to open a jar of delicious bell pepper salad on cold winter days or unfreeze it for cooking. Such blanks have an amazing taste and at the same time, due to some properties of pepper, they retain most of the vitamins.