Food lovers will love four simple recipes for sweet peppers for the winter. This low-calorie vegetable is useful to eat fresh, baked, stewed and canned.
Subtleties of cooking
Experienced housewives use small jars for canning pepper - 0.5-1 liters. It is better to eat the snack 1-2 times and not store it in the refrigerator for a long time after opening. Most winter preparations include vegetable oil; you need to take refined oil.
In winter, the aroma of the snack will be reminiscent of summer if you use fruits that have reached biological ripeness for preparation. During cooking, do not cook the peppers until they soften. The preparation turns out tasty if the slices are dense and elastic when placed in jars.
Preparing containers
First wash the jars with soda, rinse under the tap, pour a 2 cm layer of water into each jar. Place in a cold oven on a wire rack. Heat the oven to 170 °C, sterilize the jars for 10-12 minutes. When heated, water will evaporate intensively, this will improve the quality of heat treatment.
Preparing metal lids:
- wash with soda;
- rinse;
- put in a saucepan, add water;
- boil for 5 minutes.
Selection of main ingredients
The appearance of the snack should evoke appetite, so for harvesting you need to take fleshy, ripe fruits of different colors. Ideally, all colors will be present: yellow, green, red, orange.
The pods need to be washed well, the partitions, seeds and stalk removed. You can cut the fruits in different ways: into squares, rectangles, long strips, or just halves and quarters.
How to cook sweet peppers for the winter
Sweet peppers go well with meat and vegetables, so a jar of winter appetizer is always handy, especially if you need to quickly set the table.
Simple recipe
A winter snack is prepared without tomatoes and sterilization from a minimal set of products and spices. They are enough to fill 6 liter or 12 half-liter cans.
Ingredients:
- peeled bell pepper - 6 kg;
- refined vegetable oil - 400 ml;
- water - 2 l;
- salt - 4 tbsp. l.;
- bay leaf - 5 pcs.;
- peppercorns (allspice) - 15 pcs.;
- table vinegar 9% - 250 ml.
Bring water, oil, spices, vinegar to a boil, place pieces of coarsely chopped pods into the marinade, and boil for 5 minutes. Arrange vegetables in jars, filling 3 quarters of the volume, add hot brine, roll up.
Without sterilization
You can prepare a couple of jars of winter snacks without sterilization very quickly. The preparatory work and the process itself will take no more than an hour.
Ingredients for marinade:
- water - 0.5 l;
- sugar - 1 tbsp. l.;
- salt - 0.5 tbsp. l.;
- table vinegar 9% - 1 tbsp. l.
Main ingredients:
- garlic (cloves) - 2 pcs.;
- pepper (sweet) - 6 pcs.
Cut the fruits prepared according to all the rules into 4-6 parts. Boil water in a saucepan and blanch the slices in it for 2 minutes. In another bowl, boil the marinade. Place the slices in clean jars, put garlic, cut into large pieces, into each. Pour boiling brine over everything and close the lids. Store the workpiece after it has cooled completely.
With apples without butter
It is better to take sweet and sour varieties of apples. The taste of the preparation will be more piquant. Any pepper will do, as long as it is ripe.
Ingredients:
- sweet pepper - 1 kg;
- apples - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1 tbsp;
- table vinegar 9% - 100 ml;
- water - 1.5 l.
Cut the pods into slices, apples into quarters, cutting out the seeds without peeling the skin. Blanch vegetables and fruits for 2-3 minutes in a boiling marinade (water, vinegar, sugar). After blanching, place them in a jar in layers, alternating the vegetable layer with a layer of apples, pour in brine, and seal with lids.
With honey and garlic
You will need 2 cans of 0.5 liters. They need to be washed and sterilized in the microwave or steamed. It will take an hour and a half to prepare the snack.
Ingredients:
- honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- vegetable oil - 1 tsp;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- table vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. l.;
- sweet pepper - 800 g;
- garlic cloves - 4 pcs.;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs.;
- paprika (ground) - 0.5 tsp;
- black pepper (peas) - 8 pcs.
Place the peppers cut into slices into jars and place peeled garlic cloves on top. Pour boiling water over the vegetables for 8-10 minutes twice, and the third time with the marinade brought to a boil. After the last filling, tighten the lids.
How much and how should I store it?
Winter vegetable preparations are best stored in the cellar. There is a constant temperature (0-5 °C) and air humidity. Cans of snacks do not explode in an apartment if the following rules are followed during storage:
- the room (pantry, closet) is dark;
- air temperature is constant;
- There are no heating devices nearby.
A tasty snack can be stored until the next harvest if the containers and lids have undergone the necessary preparation, vinegar, salt, sugar and other marinade ingredients are put in accordance with the recipe, and the vegetables are well washed.
