Sweet peppers are delicious and healthy, and are grown in a very clean environment. Read here how sweet peppers are grown, what kinds of sweet peppers there are and how best to prepare them.
preparation and use
How to prepare peppers: a few tips
peppers can be eaten raw, but you can also use them to create numerous kinds of healthy dinners and cold dishes. Here you will find some tips on how to prepare and use sweet peppers.
How to preserve peppers
Peppers are best kept in a cool place (not colder than 10 degrees Celsius) In the basement or in the vegetable compartment of your fridge, for example. That’s when they retain their flavour and colour. This way, unpackaged sweet peppers can be preserved for well over a week. Feel like eating a sweet pepper raw? Than first expose it to room temperature for a while. Packaged sweet peppers can be kept for much longer; they hardly lose any of their moisture.
How do you know if a pepper is fresh?
A fresh sweet pepper has a firm feel. It has a nice lustre and has no wrinkles or spots. The stem of a fresh sweet pepper has a fresh green colour.
How to wash and clean peppers
In the greenhouses, the best use is made of organic crop protection. That’s why sweet peppers are so clean that you can simply pick them and eat them. Washing sweet peppers in the kitchen is only done for hygienic reasons.
How to remove seeds
Sweet peppers have white seeds and membranes that don’t really taste good. The seeds and membranes can be easily removed in various ways. Cut the sweet pepper in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. If you want to cut a sweet pepper into rings, then first remove the top. This will almost automatically take care of the seeds. The rest can be easily removed with the aid of a knife.
How to roast or grill peppers
Roasted peppers and grilled peppers are quite delicious. Roasting or grilling them is not very difficult. Use your oven, your grill, your barbeque or even an open flame (sweet pepper on a fork). The quickest method is over an open fire. A sweet pepper held over a flame is ready to eat in 8 – 12 minutes. However, using an open fire for a larger number of sweet peppers is rather time-consuming, in which case a grill or oven is more suitable. Prepared under a hot grill, sweet peppers are ready to eat in 15 – 20 minutes. Turn them over regularly to prevent them from burning. This how you prepare roasted peppers in the oven: place the sweet peppers on a baking tray and roast them for 30 – 40 minutes at 225ºC in the centre of the oven until the skin is blackened. Turn them over regularly while roasting.
How to remove pepper skins
The skins of sweet peppers are perfectly edible. You don’t have to peel a sweet pepper, but some recipes call for the removal of the skin. Sweet pepper soup, for example. And when a sweet pepper has been roasted, its skin is black and should also be removed.
Removing the skin is simple: place the sweet peppers in a plastic bag several minutes after roasting them and tie up the bag. Leave the sweet peppers to cool down for approximately 15 minutes (until lukewarm), after which the skins can be easily and safely removed – as can the seeds and membranes. Ready to enjoy!
(Raw) sweet peppers can also be peeled with the aid of a parer. Without skin, sweet peppers have a softer flavour and are easier to digest. And that is very good news for people with a sensitive stomach.
How to prepare peppers: a few tips
peppers can be eaten raw, but you can also use them to create numerous kinds of healthy dinners and cold dishes. Here you will find some tips on how to prepare and use sweet peppers.
How to preserve peppers
Peppers are best kept in a cool place (not colder than 10 degrees Celsius) In the basement or in the vegetable compartment of your fridge, for example. That’s when they retain their flavour and colour. This way, unpackaged sweet peppers can be preserved for well over a week. Feel like eating a sweet pepper raw? Than first expose it to room temperature for a while. Packaged sweet peppers can be kept for much longer; they hardly lose any of their moisture.
How do you know if a pepper is fresh?
A fresh sweet pepper has a firm feel. It has a nice lustre and has no wrinkles or spots. The stem of a fresh sweet pepper has a fresh green colour.
How to wash and clean peppers
In the greenhouses, the best use is made of organic crop protection. That’s why sweet peppers are so clean that you can simply pick them and eat them. Washing sweet peppers in the kitchen is only done for hygienic reasons.
How to remove seeds
Sweet peppers have white seeds and membranes that don’t really taste good. The seeds and membranes can be easily removed in various ways. Cut the sweet pepper in half lengthwise and remove the seeds. If you want to cut a sweet pepper into rings, then first remove the top. This will almost automatically take care of the seeds. The rest can be easily removed with the aid of a knife.
How to roast or grill peppers
Roasted peppers and grilled peppers are quite delicious. Roasting or grilling them is not very difficult. Use your oven, your grill, your barbeque or even an open flame (sweet pepper on a fork). The quickest method is over an open fire. A sweet pepper held over a flame is ready to eat in 8 – 12 minutes. However, using an open fire for a larger number of sweet peppers is rather time-consuming, in which case a grill or oven is more suitable. Prepared under a hot grill, sweet peppers are ready to eat in 15 – 20 minutes. Turn them over regularly to prevent them from burning. This how you prepare roasted peppers in the oven: place the sweet peppers on a baking tray and roast them for 30 – 40 minutes at 225ºC in the centre of the oven until the skin is blackened. Turn them over regularly while roasting.
How to remove pepper skins
The skins of sweet peppers are perfectly edible. You don’t have to peel a sweet pepper, but some recipes call for the removal of the skin. Sweet pepper soup, for example. And when a sweet pepper has been roasted, its skin is black and should also be removed.
Removing the skin is simple: place the sweet peppers in a plastic bag several minutes after roasting them and tie up the bag. Leave the sweet peppers to cool down for approximately 15 minutes (until lukewarm), after which the skins can be easily and safely removed – as can the seeds and membranes. Ready to enjoy!
(Raw) sweet peppers can also be peeled with the aid of a parer. Without skin, sweet peppers have a softer flavour and are easier to digest. And that is very good news for people with a sensitive stomach.
