If you consider canning bell peppers a difficult and expensive treat, that is not the case. Capsicum is one of the easiest vegetables to roll up. Prepare it for even inexperienced housewives. We bring to your attention a few simple recipes from the available products with photos. From this review, you will also learn about the basic nuances of the proper preservation of whole sweet fruits.
How to choose and prepare bell peppers for preservation
First of all, you need to choose the suitable fruits of bell pepper. You can use the crop from your own garden or buy vegetables at the grocery store or in the market. Choose medium-sized, firm and fleshy fruits. Large fruits are often too fibrous and stiff. Also remove any soft, sore and spotty pods.
Important! The most important thing is that the fruits are fresh. Old copies will affect the taste of the canned product, making it unpleasant.
Once the fruits are picked, pickling and canning work can begin. At the preparatory stage, the fruits must be thoroughly washed under cold running water or you can fill a clean sink with cold water, immerse vegetables there and wash away all the dirt from them. In the end, do not forget to rinse the entire crop with clean water.Some recipes require the removal of tails and seeds, in others this measure is not provided.
Whole Canned Pepper Recipes
Sweet peppers prepared for the winter according to the following recipes are perfect for stuffing.
Recipes involve the use of whole pods of any color.A simple recipe without marinade and sterilization
This recipe allows you to preserve a sweet vegetable for the winter for stuffing without the use of sterilization techniques and without the addition of vinegar. Such preservation is perfectly stored not only in the basement, but also in the kitchen.
- Remove seeds and stalks from pure fruits.
- Salt the water in the pan so that it tastes slightly salty. Place a pot of salted water on a fire.
- After boiling water, immerse the pods into it.
- After 5 minutes, put the fruits in a well-washed jar (there is no need to sterilize or dry it).
- Pour boiling water in which vegetables were cooked from above.
- Using a seaming machine, cover the jar with a lid.
- Turn the container upside down and cover with something warm (for example, a thick blanket). Leave the workpiece in this position until it cools.
Video recipe
A simple recipe without marinade and sterilizationFried
Preserving fried pods is quite simple. Prepare about 1–1.5 kg of fruit.
Important! The sterilization of cans and lids in this recipe is an important step if you do not want bacteria to form inside the cans. Malicious organisms will spoil the food, and your time and labor will be wasted.
garlic, allspice peas and red ground pepper
taste
- In vegetables, slightly cut the tails, and leave the seeds inside.
- Fry whole fruits on all sides.
- While the fruits are fried, take care of the sterilization of cans and lids, as well as the preparation of the marinade.
- At the bottom of each jar, lower the cloves of garlic, allspice and add red pepper. Next, add granulated sugar, salt and vinegar.
- Fry the vegetables in a jar of sauce, roll up. Then shake well to melt loose components.
- Turn the containers upside down and wrap them well. You can wrap the cans at night, and in the morning already get it, turn it over and put it away in a dark, cold place.
With garlic in oil
Sweet vegetable, canned in oil with garlic, is very aromatic and tastes good.
sunflower oil
250 ml
allspice
15 peas
- Thoroughly washed pods to remove stalks and seeds.
- Chop the garlic finely with a knife or in a blender.
- Combine the garlic and all the spices in the pan. Pour in water, vinegar, oil and bring the mixture to a boil over high heat.
- Since pepper tends to float to the surface, it is necessary to lower it into a boiling broth in small portions.
- Boil the pods on one side for 2 minutes, then turn over onto the other side with a slotted spoon or large spoon and simmer for 2 minutes.
- Place the hot fruits in sterilized jars, top with the hot liquid in which they were boiled.
- Cover the jars with sterilized lids and roll them up.
- Turn the hot workpieces upside down and wrap them up.
- After cooling, keep the workpieces in a cool, dry, dark place.
In tomato
Peppers in this recipe are especially tasty, in addition, you can use tomato juice. About 5 medium fruits are placed in one jar.
vegetable oil
250 ml
- Prick washed vegetables with ponytails with a fork. This procedure is necessary so that during the cooking process, tomato juice penetrates well into vegetables.
- Minutes 2 blanch the pods in boiling water.
- Separately, boil tomato juice from peeled tomatoes. Add sugar, salt and butter. Stir everything thoroughly and boil a couple of minutes until sugar and salt dissolve. Pour in the vinegar and mix again.
- Dip the fruits in a pot of hot juice. After boiling the liquid, boil the pods for another 10 minutes.
- Using a fork, transfer hot vegetables to sterilized jars. Fill containers with pods to the top.
- Pour cans of tomato juice, freshly removed from the heat.
- Twist the jars, then turn them over and wrap them with a blanket until they cool.
Did you know? It turns out that sweet pepper and chocolate have one thing in common: both of these products, when consumed as food, are able to release endorphins into the bloodstream - “hormones of happiness”.
With horseradish
- Slightly fry the washed pods over low heat to keep the skin intact.
- Dip hot vegetables in pre-salted vinegar.
- As soon as the first batch of pods has cooled, transfer it to a clean dish, and in vinegar, lower the next batch.
- When all the vegetables have cooled, put them in jars, sprinkling each layer with grated horseradish and chopped parsley.
- At the end, add celery and top with the oil remaining after frying.
- Cover the jars with sterilized lids, then gently lower them into a pot of boiling water and sterilize for 30 minutes. Then roll up the cans.
With honey
vegetable oil
200 ml
black peppercorns and bay leaves
taste
- Pour boiled water over the washed vegetables, then immediately immerse them in cold water. Remove the peel from the vegetables and remove the tails with the seeds.
- Tightly fill the liter jars with pods.
- Add vinegar, honey and all spices to boiling water. Get the honey completely dissolved.
- Pour the vegetables in jars with boiling marinade, pour oil on top.
- Sterilize the jars for 15–20 minutes at a temperature of + 90 ° C and roll up.
Diet recipe
This recipe is suitable for people who monitor their weight. A special cooking method allows you to use the minimum amount of dietary oil.
- Dry the vegetables after washing and place them firmly on the baking sheet. Try not to leave between the fruits of the gaps.
- Grease all the fruits on top with corn oil. Send to the preheated oven for a quarter of an hour.
- Transfer hot vegetables to a large stewpan, close tightly with a lid.
- For a few minutes, the baked peppers let the juice go. Now you can shift the pods onto a flat dish where you can easily peel them and remove the stalks with seeds.
- Heat a frying pan with corn oil and fry vegetables in it (half a minute on each side).
- Place the fried pods in sterilized jars to the top. Pour juice from peppers and vinegar on top.
- Screw the jars with sterilized lids, then wrap them until they cool completely.
Did you know? The most hot pepper of all the varieties known today is habanero pepper.
Useful Tips
Despite the abundance of whole bell pepper recipes for the winter, the principles of conservation remain unchanged:
- Canned peppers are much more appetizing if cooked using a marinade. The fruits of this culture are well soaked in sauce. As a marinade, it is preferable to use vinegar, garlic and honey.
- So that the pods absorb the sauce faster, pour them with marinade immediately after heat treatment (blanching, boiling or frying) while they are hot.
- If the recipe requires roasting the pods, consider baking them in the oven until half ready, then fry them in a skillet. This will save both time and quantity of oil, and the finished product will be much more useful.
- A number of recipes involves the indispensable removal of the peel from vegetables. To facilitate this procedure, immediately after the heat treatment, immerse the hot pods in a bag of polyethylene and tightly tie it. After a few minutes, remove the vegetables and make small cuts on their skin - it will be removed in large layers.
- The color of the fruit can be any, but pods of different colors look very impressive in banks.