Sweet peppers have long had a reputation for being heavily contaminated with pesticides. It is therefore important, especially with conventionally grown pods, to clean them thoroughly. But you should also wash peppers from your own garden or organically grown ones before eating them, as dirt and germs can stick to the vegetables. Find out how here.

Pesticides can be at least partially removed with a thorough wash

Wash peppers

Thorough washing removes most of the dirt and pollutants:

  1. Run lukewarm water into the sink and place the pepper in it.
  2. Scrub gently with a soft vegetable brush.
  3. Drain the water and rinse the vegetables again under running water.
  4. Pat the pods dry with kitchen paper.

Cut out the seeds and chop the peppers

The small, light-colored seeds of the pepper can be removed quite easily if you cut them out of the pod with the fruiting body:

  1. Place the peppers on a cutting board and cut into 2 pieces about an inch below the base of the stalk.
  2. Turn the peppers over and cut off the end generously.
  3. Now go into the fruit body with the knife and cut out the core body as close as possible to the fruit flesh.
  4. Stand up and cut lengthways.
  5. Place the peppers on the cutting board and cut into strips.

If you need the whole pod, for example because you want to fill it, you have to proceed differently:

  1. Cut the pepper below the stalk.
  2. Unscrew this together with the core housing.
  3. If this cannot be easily removed, carefully wiggle the small cover.
  4. Scoop out the seeds with a spoon and rinse the pod under running water.
  5. If there are still white fibers on the pulp, you can leave them in the pod.

tips

Green peppers are harvested unripe. When ripe, peppers first turn yellow and turn red when fully ripe. The taste also changes and becomes sweeter and milder.

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Vegetable garden