how to keep Bulgarian pepper for the winter in the freezer, for stuffing, in cans

This delicious and beautiful vegetable is a rare guest on our table during the off-season. Not all the landladies know that you can save Bulgarian pepper for the winter in several simple ways. Virtually all of its useful properties remain unchanged during storage. And there is something to save. Bulgarian pepper is the champion among vegetables for the content of vitamin C( ascorbic acid).It contains antioxidants, silicon, iodine, iron and many other biologically active compounds.

How to select pepper for storage?

There are two stages of ripeness of this vegetable.

1. Technical maturity - the fruits have reached a value inherent in the characteristics of the variety, but do not have a characteristic color, when you press the fruit, you hear a crunch.
2. Biological ripeness - the fruits are colored in color, characteristic for this variety.

For freezing, drying, marinating, it is necessary that the fruits are in the stage of biological ripeness, and fresh pepper can be used for fresh storage, which is in the stage of technical ripeness. Only the fruits of impeccable quality are selected for storage, without defects, traces of decay, cracks and dents.

Advice

Collecting this vegetable, you need to carefully cut it along with the stem, because the branches of the plant are very fragile, you can easily damage them. It is better to do this with a pruner, a knife.

Fruits neatly folded into boxes, having a small layer, taken to a cool room, sorted for processing. Bulgarian pepper with small defects can be used for freezing.

Fresh storage

This method can provide the hostess with raw materials for preparing various dishes, fresh salads for at least 1-2 months. Pepper has the property of ripening under certain conditions, moving from the stage of technical maturity to the stage of biological maturity. The optimum temperature for this is from +2 to +5⁰S. Flaws of impeccable quality are laid in shallow drawers in one layer, sent for storage in a suitable room. It can be a loggia, a veranda, a pantry, a cellar or a cellar.

Advice

To keep this vegetable fresh for longer, you need to store it in a dark place, regularly picking up the spoiled fruits.

In the presence of conditions, you can use an interesting way to store fresh pepper for the winter. To do this, you need to tear the bush together with the fruits on it, shake the ground off the roots and hang it in a warm shed or cellar. The unripe peppers will receive all the nutrients they owe, they will be kept for a long time.

To keep fresh Bulgarian pepper in the stage of biological ripeness, the storage conditions should be somewhat different.

• The optimum temperature is from 0 to +2 ° C.A place for such storage can be a department of a refrigerator, a vegetable box on a balcony, a cellar.
• High humidity. You can provide it by placing the fruits in plastic bags. They need to make holes for airflow.

Observing these conditions, you can expect a storage period of 1-2 months.

How to keep fruits for cooking stuffed peppers?

Provide yourself for the winter with pepper for the stuffing you can by freezing it. If it is properly prepared, it will be stored in the freezer until a new crop. For this, the pepper is cleaned carefully, trying not to damage. It is necessary to wash it, cut off the stem, extract the seeds.

Advice

After cleaning from the seeds, it is preferable not to clean the preforms, but if this can not be avoided, then it is necessary to wipe the fruits with a napkin from the outside.

Fruits are poured into each other so that a "turret" is obtained, each portion is stacked in a separate bag, sent to the freezer. In winter it is enough to defrost as much pepper as you need for stuffing. Their taste will not be different from fresh ones.

Freezing workpiece for salads and second courses

The freezer will help to keep the Bulgarian pepper for the winter and for other purposes. Vegetable stew, borsch, soups, salads from fresh vegetables - all these dishes from the presence of pepper in the composition of their ingredients will only benefit. Therefore, it is desirable to freeze whole fruits in the form of straws or halves in addition to whole fruits.

Fruits with small damages are suitable for these purposes. It is desirable that they are in the stage of biological ripeness. A rainbow of color will decorate any dish. Fruits are washed, cleaned of seeds, cut at will hostess straws, squares, halves. They are laid out on plastic containers, frozen.

Advice

Before freezing for the winter, it is advisable to dry the chopped pieces or to freeze them first in a free bag in one layer and then pour into a container.

Marinium and canned

The preservation of Bulgarian pepper for the winter can be provided by marinating in cans. There are many ways of preparation: adzhika, lecho, marinades, salads. Here are some recipes.

• Baked peppers .Peppers are baked on a baking sheet or roasting pan, peeled off from them, laid in cans, poured with marinade: three liters of water - 3 tbsp.l.salt, the same amount of vinegar( 9%), sweet peas, several cloves of garlic, bay leaf.
• Pickled peppers .Fleshy fruits blanch for 1 minute in boiling water, put into 1-liter jars containing 1 tsp.sugar, a third of ch.citric acid, celery leaves, sweet peas. All is poured in boiling brine( 1 tablespoon salt per liter of water) before it is poured over the edge, rolled up without sterilization.

Board

For reliability, you can hide hot upside down banks before cooling down. To do this, use old blankets, dense fabric.

Rules for drying pepper

You can dry the Bulgarian pepper for blanks for the winter. This traditional method of storage is more than one hundred years old. Fruits are washed, cleaned, cut into pieces of the desired shape, laid out on a mesh covered with a cotton thin cloth, and put out to dry under a canopy. You can dry them in a slightly open oven, special dryers.

Advice

You need to store these blanks in dry glass jars, canvas bags.

In winter, enough to get a handful of dried pepper, put it in soup, stew 10 minutes before cooked, and the dish will get an unforgettable aroma and beautiful appearance. In the south of Russia, dried vegetables are ground into powder and used in the preparation of sauces, meat dishes.

So, the harvest of Bulgarian pepper can be kept for a long time, if you use different methods: freezing, drying, pickling, storing in fresh form. If the technology is observed, the fruits retain all the useful properties.