Well, apparently my bell and marcato sweet peppers have decided to become absolute trees full of produce this year, and I’m not sure what to do 🥲. I’ve reluctantly picked 3lbs so far, and have at least another 5lbs still hanging on 5 plants.
With all of the tomatoes I grow, I roast them and then vacuum seal + freeze so that I can take them out all winter to use as a canned tomato sauce substitute(improvement). I also use hot peppers to make a nice jelly for crackers and cream cheese… However, I have no clue what to do with this much sweet peppers.
I am in need of inspiration on what I should do with these that gives me the flexibility in recipes in the future, or locking in some dishes I will use them for.
What are you all doing? 🤩
by tavvyjay
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I also realise that this may seem like very few peppers, but I only grow them so we can have some fresh and they’ve outperformed big time this year
Smoke them, then dehydrate them, then blend them to a fine powder for paprika
Well my suggestion was to freeze them in strips or chunks but sounds like you do that already. I like stir fry’s, pot of northern beans with peppers and carrots, veggie soup, stuffed peppers
You could do stuffed peppers
Damn son you sure all those are sweet peppers them one’s on the left look real close to a jalapeno
Pickled peppers. Many versions and recipes online.
Seed, chop or slice, and freeze. Use on pizza, in chili, omelettes, wherever you’d normally chop and cook sweet peppers. No good for stir fry because they will be soft .
If you have space you can make and freeze stuffed peppers.
I’d wait until they are turning color and ripening to harvest, then they’ll be really sweet not that green taste, and do all the things. Roast, grill, dry, freeze. One year I made roasted pepper soup and sauces that were the bomb.
Enchilada sauce!
Weird answer but my dog loves them cut up in her food. To the point I built a fence around them because she would pluck them right off the plant
I got 250 lbs of ground beef in my freezer. I’m thinking stuffed bell peppers.
I make a dip with them, smoke 1/3 and then blend with the other 2/3 you roasted. Add olive oil and salt.
Or look up a Muhammara recipe
Chop and freeze for soups, stews, stir fry
Id dice em up and freeze in single portion sizes. 1 cup portions in fold top bags. Stack nice and neat in a vacuum bag and freeze 8 per pack.
Slice or chop, freeze. It’s great to grab a cupful when I need them.
Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filé gumbo.
Fajitas
My wife dices them, freezes them and then vacuum packs them for later use.
You could always just snack on um
I was going to say make hot sauce until I read the whole title.
I mean maybe you could make some sort of pepper adjacent sauce.
roast them with garlic and onions, puree with olive oil and salt, and freeze in half cup to cup portions to make a pasta sauce/bread dip all winter. Thaw in fridge, heat with some pasta water to emulsify, add meat if i have any, easy dinner!
Pepper jelly if you mix in a few hots too.