Sweet pepper is a vegetable that contains many useful substances. Its composition includes vitamins A, C, E, K, PP and B vitamins, as well as minerals: potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, manganese, copper, selenium and zinc.
Thanks to such a rich composition, sweet peppers have a number of beneficial properties.
It strengthens the immune system, improves eyesight, promotes healthy skin, hair and nails. And also pepper helps in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, supports bone health, reduces cholesterol and normalizes the nervous system.
Let’s tell you how to prepare an appetizer from sweet bell peppers
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Ingredients:
- Sweet peppers – 1.5 kg;
- Celery – a bundle;
- Water – 500 ml;
- Vegetable oil – 100 ml;
- Vinegar 9% – 50 ml;
- Sugar – 2.5 tbsp;
- Salt – 1 tbsp;
- Laurel leaves – 2 pcs;
- Black pepper – 20 pcs;
- Garlic – 8 cloves.
Preparation of sweet pepper appetizer:
Clean the peppers from the insides, cut into small slices. In the cleaned form should get 1.5 kg of vegetables.
In a saucepan pour water, vinegar and vegetable oil, pour salt and sugar, add bay leaf, black pepper and cook until boiling. Next, put a few garlic cloves and a bunch of celery in the marinade, mix.
Put a small amount of peppers in the marinade, cook them under a lid for 2-3 minutes, stir. Put the peppers and celery in a separate pot, sprinkle with garlic cloves and cover with a lid.
Similarly, put celery and a little garlic in the marinade, and then the peppers, cook for a couple minutes. Then put
them
in another pot, without marinade.
When all the peppers have passed the cooking process, pour the marinade into the pot, cover with a lid and put them in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
It is possible for this recipe to use neither a storage pot, but another container. You get delicious pickled peppers, which are especially good to eat with pita bread.
