What To Do With All Those Peppers?
August 3, 2009 by Linette Gerlach
Filed under Recipes
My pepper plants are in overdrive right now. I have tons of bell peppers, banana peppers, and a few hot peppers starting to come on. So what am I going to do with all those peppers?
Image (c) L Gerlach
- Freezing peppers is easy. I just cut the tops off, and take the seeds out, and throw them in freezer bags. Then later in the year I take them out a pepper at a time to use in stir fry, make southwest omelets, pizza, pepper poppers, or fajitas. They’re easy to slice while they’re still frozen, or run them under water for a few minutes to thaw them a little.
Image (c) L Gerlach
- You can also fire roast them on the grill, or over a fire to give them a smokey flavor. Then freeze them roasted, or serve them whole as a side for steak or chicken.
- Use them roasted or fresh to add to garden salsa.
- Make stuffed peppers.
- Slice them up and add them to a fresh garden salad.
- Make pepper jam.
What do you do with all your peppers?
I freeze my peppers in ziplock bags too. It’s so convenient later on to pull a pepper out of the freezer.