Many housewives want to keep pepper as long as possible. Indeed, in the winter, prices for this vitamin and aromatic vegetable in the markets and in stores increase many times, and the quality sometimes leaves much to be desired.
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Instruction manual
1
Store bell pepper in plastic bags or drawers with openings around the perimeter. The optimum storage temperature for fruits is 0 - 2 ° C with an air humidity of 87-93%. Under such conditions, the fruit can last at least 40 days.
2
Keep hot peppers in dry and cool rooms suspended in bundles where they will gradually dry. This method allows it to be stored for a very long time. The fruits selected for storage should be in a state of physiological ripeness: be red and fleshy.
3
Dry the peppers with plates by stringing them on a string. Thus, you will have the opportunity to consume vegetables until new crops.
4
Freeze whole washed or chopped bell peppers in the freezer. Take healthy fruits, put them in a container for freezing whole or cut. Such pepper is stored all winter and is easily thawed, preserving the taste and aroma in soups, borsch and other dishes subjected to heat treatment.
5
Preserve bell pepper. There are many delicious recipes for marinades, salads, pickles that can be prepared from it. Adjika, lecho, baked peppers with garlic and vinegar, etc. To preserve the baked peppers, remove the transparent peel from them, put the fruits in a jar. Condensed peppers take up little space. Pour them with marinade: boil 3 liters of water with 6 tablespoons of salt, add peppercorns, 5 cloves of garlic, 3 tablespoons 9% vinegar and bay leaf.
6
Wash large, fleshy sweet peppers, free from stalks, membranes and seeds, put in a colander and lower them for 1 minute in hot water, then let the water drain. Put the pepper in 1 liter jars, add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1-2 peas of allspice, 1/3 teaspoon of citric acid, leaf and celery stalks to each jar. Fill everything with boiling brine (1 tbsp.spoon of salt per 1 liter of water) so that the brine spills slightly, cover the jars with sterile lids and immediately roll up without sterilizing. Store canned peppers in the refrigerator.