How to freeze Bulgarian pepper for the winter: ways to freeze
Sweet, frozen Bulgarian pepper isthe ideal harvest for the winter, because it will be convenient to put it in various dishes - ragout, soups, stew and even in apple compote. Frozen pepper for the winter - the occupation is not difficult, even a novice mistress can handle this. If you still doubt that you can handle it yourself, then our article will help you.
How to freeze pepper: requirements
For freezing it is better to cook large ripefruits of pepper with thick walls. It is such a sweet pepper has a rich taste and much longer retains its taste qualities. Also pepper pods should be whole without any kind of damage.
Frozen pepper: technology
Deciding to freeze this vegetable for the winter, you needBe aware that before this procedure, the pepper pods are well washed, they cut off the foot by 1 cm and the contents (seeds) are carefully cleaned. There are 2 ways to freeze:
- Pepper for stuffing;
- Pepper for stews, soups and stew.
How to freeze pepper for stuffing? You need to keep the prepared vegetables whole and put in each other. Should be a "turret". Large turrets do not need to do, this complicates the procedure of freezing. With regard to the second method, here, the cooked washed and peeled pepper is cut into small pieces (can be cut into rings or semicircles) and stacked for freezing in a bag.
Tableware for pepper freezing
If your freezer has a pull-outpallet of medium depth - it is just perfect for this type of harvesting vegetables for the winter. But if there are only standard shelves in the freezer or a very deep container, then you need to prepare a plastic tray or other flat dishes that do not have the property of freezing to the walls of the freezer.
Prepared tray should be preliminarilyvystelit piece of clean cotton cloth, then lay out compactly and tightly on it, or our "turrets", or pepper slices. The workpiece is also closed with a cloth on top. Cracks should not be. All, send your pepper to the freezer and wait for it to completely freeze. The vegetable should become completely solid.
As a rule, the term of freezing depends on the quantitypeppers and used dishes, but it does not exceed 48 hours. After the pepper is completely frozen, it must be spread out in packages and closed tightly. If there are cracks or holes in the bags, the vegetable will dry up and lose all its taste and useful properties. But correctly packed sweet pepper, for both stuffing, and for stew, can lie throughout the winter until a new crop. To lay out the pepper is recommended in several packages, because the less you "disturb" your piece, the better and tastier it will be in the preparation process.
Frozen pepper: application
Use sweet frozen pepper is better this way: Hold it under a stream of cool water for a few seconds. Only when the pepper melts a little, it can be used to prepare a dish. Completely vegetables are not recommended to unfreeze, as they become formless and they are very hard to cut. If you have frozen the Bulgarian pepper not in whole, but in chopped pieces, then they can be used and frozen, throwing into the already boiling soup or a pan with vegetables and meat.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
