Sweet peppers from your own garden or from the balcony taste incomparably aromatic. The harvest season for the fully colored pods under glass begins in July and about a month later outdoors. Often more peppers ripen at the same time than you can eat at once. The excess can easily be preserved. We'll tell you how.

Peppers can be pickled or frozen

Freeze peppers

Frozen sweet peppers can be kept for at least ten months. Follow these steps:

  1. Wash and trim the pods.
  2. Cut into bite-sized pieces.
  3. Place on a baking sheet or platter and flash freeze for a few hours. This keeps the pepper pieces from sticking together.
  4. Pour into containers and freeze again.

Pick up the peppers

To preserve sweet peppers, you only need suitable glasses and a preserving pot in addition to the vegetables.

  1. Sterilize twist-off or mason jars in a preheated oven at 120 degrees for 15 minutes.
  2. Wash, clean and cut the peppers into pieces.
  3. Layer in the glasses.
  4. Boil water.
  5. Put a pinch or two of salt in each glass and pour in the boiling liquid. There should be a 2cm border at the top.
  6. According to the manufacturer's instructions, cook in the preserving machine at 90 degrees for thirty minutes.

You can season the broth with vinegar, garlic, bay leaves and pepper, for example, and give the pickled paprika a special flavor.

Put the peppers

Always use undamaged peppers for pickling.

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 kg of cleaned peppers
  • 600 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 4 organic lemons
  • 4 - 6 cloves of garlic
  • 6 bay leaves
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp dried or 3 sprigs fresh thyme

preparation

  1. Wash, clean and skin the sweet peppers.
  2. Cut into wide strips.
  3. Zest the lemons and squeeze the fruit.
  4. Peel and finely chop 4 garlic cloves.
  5. Add lemon juice, lemon zest and honey and mix.
  6. Place the peppers in a bowl and marinate in this mixture for 24 hours.
  7. The next day, peel the remaining garlic and cut into very fine slices.
  8. Layer the peppers with the herbs and garlic in glasses.
  9. Mix the lemon marinade with the olive oil and heat to 80 degrees.
  10. Pour over the peppers.
  11. Close jars tightly.
  12. Store in a cool and dark area.

tips

You can also dry sweet peppers. To do this, divide the washed and cleaned pods, pull them onto a piece of string with a needle and hang them up in an airy, shady place. Alternatively, you can dry the peppers in the oven at 50 degrees.

Category:

Vegetable garden