How To Cut Bell Peppers

How To Cut Bell Peppers
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How To Cut Bell Peppers
The bell pepper is used a lot in recipes. It is a versatile ingredient, it can be used for soups, salads, stuffed or even peeled and used in a dressing. Learning a few key skills with the bell pepper will help anybody improve their cooking skills.

The Bell Pepper
The Bell pepper comes in 3 main colours: red, yellow and green. Each different colour has a slightly different taste. The main difference that the green pepper is more bitter than the red pepper.
Learning how to cut a bell pepper in a few different ways will be great. In this video i have sliced a pepper and diced a pepper. I have also shown how to cut the pepper down and remove the seeds and insides.

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How To Cut A Bell Pepper Reading For Filling
To develop your skills as a cook i have given two ways to cut a pepper ready for cooking and filling. These dishes are a great choice for vegetarian options.
Learning and developing cooking techniques with a bell pepper will add many dishes to your skill set.

Ideas For Dishes That Can Use Bell Peppers
Stuffed Peppers
Stuffing peppers is a great option for vegetarians. The peppers can be filled with; cooked rice, cous cous, for example. And served with a tomato sauce.
Sliced Peppers For A Salad
Raw pepper can be used in many salad dishes, for example a mixed salad for a garnish on a burger.
Sliced Peppers For A Stir Fry
Cutting the peppers into strips and then cooking them quickly in a hot pan. These can be added to noodles. I also like to cut peppers into a small dice cook down in a hot pan and add to cous cous. By cooking the peppers first the flavour is great.

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Chunky Diced Peppers For A Stew / Soup
Another great use for peppers is in soups. This would need to be cut down into chunky pieces and sweated off in a pan. The soup can then be blitzed to soup consistency.
Stew such as a sweat and sour style dish or a beef and pepper stew are great uses for a bell pepper.
Skinned Peppers For A Tart
A more advanced technique is the skinning of the peppers. This can be done by cooking the peppers in a very hot oven and peeling them once the skin has blackened. This can also be done with a blow torch. Once the peppers are completely blackened they can be put inside a container with a lid or a plastic bag. By doing so the skin will start to come off and will be easier to peel. This also gives the peppers a good flavour.
The peppers can then be cut into shapes; such as small circles.

In this video you will Learn how to prepare and cut bell peppers correctly and they can be used in many different style of dishes. Both hot and cold.