Dried peppers will easily add even a simple dish. delicious taste, will make food rich in vitamins. Therefore, if not medical contraindications, it can be added both to the first and to the second, to meat and bird pies.
Is it possible to dry sweet peppers for the winter? Yes. Quality product is obtained when using sweet paprika of any color. The most fragrant mass is obtained from well-ripened fruits. thick-walled varieties.
If you already have enough fruits of Bulgarian pepper sent for storage in fresh form and even managed to freeze for the winter in the freezer, including the whole for stuffing, then you have nothing left to do except to make dried sweet peppers or sushina for the winter.
Good or bad?
In paprika are contained: B vitamins, carotene, vitamin E, folic acid, zinc, "heart vitamin" potassium, well-digestible forms of phosphorus, sodium, calcium, iodine. There is a lot of iron and copper in the peppers that we need for blood formation.
Harm to health the dried paprika puts a person only if it is eaten with:
- angina pectoris,
- severe hypotension
- any type of gastrointestinal ulcer,
- gastritis,
- liver problems
- problems with the urinary system,
- hemorrhoids.
In the absence of these diseases, dried paprika can be safely added to suitable dishesso that:
- support the immune barrier
- improve the growth of nails, hair,
- improve the quality of vision
- restrain hypertensive manifestations,
- reduce the risk of vessel occlusion,
- whet your appetite
- reduce the likelihood of developing diabetes.
Energy value and calorie dried paprika higher than that of fresh 10 times and equals 390-400 kcal. The product derived from green fruit has the lowest calorific value, since initially, in the pulp of green sweet pepper, no more than 20 kcal. For comparison: the calorie content of yellow and red fresh fruits is 30-40 kcal.
Fundamental rules
Earlier we already talked about how to dry at home hot chili pepper. Now let's talk about how to dry the Bulgarian pepper for the winter.
How to prepare sweet peppers for drying? After thoroughly rinsing the fruit under running water, each wipe from excess moisture and free from signs of spoilage, tail with a core. Crumbled seedsstuck inside the vegetable, shake out, tapping with a wide edge on the palm or surface of the table.
But even if a few seeds remain, then the taste of the finished product will not deteriorateand the cooking time will not increase. After cleansing a batch of vegetables, they are cut into quarters, and then crumbled into strips 3-4 mm thick.
What to dry sweet bell pepper? The crushed pepper is dried:
- in electric dryers
- in electric, gas ovens,
- in the microwave,
- on pallets, exhibited in pritennom place.
At what temperature dry sweet pepper? On the air, the raw materials can be dried at any positive temperature, in the absence of high humidity (at night, trays of pepper should be covered or put into a dry room).
In the oven and electric drier for pepper choose fifty degree mode, maintaining this temperature until the slices are brought to the desired condition
What time is it dry? When drying in natural conditions, when the air warms up during the day to 30 or more degrees Celsius, need 3-4 days. At lower temperatures - 5-7 days. At 50 degrees Celsius, crushed pepper will reach the desired condition 12-24 hours. The term of preparation depends on the processed volume, thickness of slices.
How to dry the bell pepper at home? Tips for drying and storing peppers in this video:
Ways
How to dry the Bulgarian pepper for the winter in electric dryer? Pepper drying algorithm in an electric dryer:
- Pepper wash.
- To dry
- Fruits free from tails.
- From each vegetable to remove the middle with seeds.
- Cut the whole paprika into strips manually or with a vegetable cutter.
- Spread the resulting mass into trays in even layers.
- Choose a temperature regime.
- Turn on the machine.
- After adjusting the slices to the desired condition, turn off the device, allow the raw materials to cool completely.
- Put the strips of vegetables in a glass container or first chop the raw materials to a state of powder, and then put them into storage in a hermetically sealed jar.
How to dry the peppers in an electric dryer? Your attention is a video instruction on drying paprika in electric dryer:
How to dry sweet pepper at home in the oven? The algorithm for drying paprika using the oven:
- Pepper wash.
- Wipe dry.
- Cut the cores.
- Each fruit is divided into quarters, and then into strips.
- Put the billet on a baking sheet lined with parchment (layer no more than 1 cm).
- Turn on the oven at 50 ° C ... 60 ° C.
- Put the tray in the oven.
- Do not fully cover the oven door (you can use a fork, holding it between the door and the cabinet oven).
- Stir the mass periodically using a spoon.
After a couple of hours, turn off the oven, do not close the door.- The next day, after mixing the pepper, turn on the oven again and perform the steps listed above.
- The procedure is repeated until the slices dry.
After a couple of hours, turn off the oven, do not close the door.How to cook dried bell pepper for the winter in the microwave? The algorithm for drying sweet paprika in the microwave:
- 3-4 paprika wash.
- Fruits to wipe.
- Cores cut.
- Cut the flesh into equal strips or cubes.
- Mass spread out on a plate so that between the pieces a little bit translucent bottom.
- Turn on the stove for 2 minutes by selecting 200 -300 watts.
- The process does not leave without supervision.
- After turning off the oven open for ventilation, mix the slices.
- If the slices are still wet, repeat the procedure.
- When the smell of burning, reduce the degree of power.
How to dry pepper on air? Pepper dries perfectly in the air:
- The crushed fruits are scattered on a tray, and then kept in partial shade, tidying up in a dry room overnight.
- The fruits cleared from the cores are strung on a rope, after which they pull it between the supports under a canopy or in a dry room.
How to dry the bell pepper at home? A simple way of drying pepper in the air will be shared with you by a housewife in this video:
Sushina storage
How and what to store dried Bulgarian pepper? In hermetically sealed glass, ceramic, metal stainless steel cans.
If the store / kitchen is constantly low in humidity, then dried Bulgarian pepper can be stored in tied canvas bags.
If the pepper was dried in the air, then before putting it into the cans, it must be “sanitized” - ignite in the oven.
To do this, the oven is heated to a temperature of 90C ° ... 100C °and off. Immediately place the dried peppers in the oven and keep them there until cool.
Dried peppers can be used not only as a vitamin supplement to dishes, but also as a product for the "worm catch" for those forced to diet.
