Bulgarian pepper for the winter: 14 best step-by-step recipes for canning

Every housewife has favorite and proven recipes for vegetable salads. Bulgarian pepper is harvested for the winter in various ways. Every year there are new recipes for mouth-watering winter twists. Their composition and cooking algorithm differ.

Features of cooking bell pepper for the winter

The market at the end of summer pleases the eye with ripe fruits and greenery. It is difficult to pass by stalls with ripe, fragrant peppers. The end of August is the time for the mass gathering of vegetables in summer cottages. The fruits of pepper are harvested for the future - they freeze, they make various preparations for the winter.

Pepper snacks are served with meat dishes, they are harmoniously combined with the taste of boiled potatoes, they are eaten with pasta. For winter preparations, fruits that have reached biological ripeness are suitable. They are easy to identify by their appearance. They are shiny, bright red or yellow. The best time for spins is the end of summer, the beginning of autumn.

How to choose and prepare vegetables

The color of ripe fruits can be green, orange, red. For blanks, any are suitable. Multi-colored blanks are much more appetizing.

When choosing vegetables for a winter salad, make sure they are fresh and free from rot.

Preparation of containers

Large capacity containers are not suitable for winter harvesting of peppers. Convenient jar size: 0.5 l, 1 l, 1.5 l. In order for the blanks to be stored for a long time, glass containers are subjected to heat treatment. Every experienced housewife has her own proven method of sterilization.

Some put the jar on the kettle and heat it for 10 minutes with hot steam, others sterilize it in the microwave. Pour some water into jars, process 5-10 minutes at full power.

The third containers for blanks are sent to the oven. First, water is poured into it (by ⅓), set to 180 ° C and heated until the liquid boils. The lids are also subjected to heat treatment, they are placed in a ladle or pan, poured with water, boiled.

The best recipes

Due to lack of time, housewives choose recipes that are simple but delicious. These were included in the selection of the best.

Easy winter recipe

The conservation process will take an hour and a half. Due to the fact that there is no vinegar, many housewives like a simple recipe. Minimum food items required:

peppers - 1 kg;
store-bought tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.;
arbitrary amount of s alt, sugar, the hostess can add them at her discretion, focusing on the tastes of family members.

Cooking algorithm:

prepare the pods - cut off the tails, seeds, remove the core;
boil water;
cook 3 minutes;
transfer to a jar;
boil water with pasta and spices;
pour chopped vegetables with marinade;
sterilize each jar for at least 20 minutes.

Caucasian oil in jars

This Caucasian appetizer is easy to prepare. For her, you need to choose red, ripe, thick-walled fruits and freshly cut greens. List of what you need:

pepper - 5 kg;
garlic - 300 g;
100 g parsley and cilantro each;
pickling s alt - 120 g;
1 tbsp. vinegar, sugar and oil;
5 bay leaves;
12 allspice peas;
1.5 liters of water for filling.

In what order to prepare a delicious salad:

first cut all fruits;
then chop the greens and chop the garlic cloves;
boil the filling (oil + s alt + water + spices + sugar);
cook the pieces in the filling for 5 minutes;
put the boiled slices in a container, alternate a layer of fruits with a layer of garlic and herbs;
in conclusion, pour the vinegar into the filling, when it boils, pour it into a jar;
to keep the workpiece for a long time, sterilize the jar for 20 minutes.

In honey filling

Choose thick-walled, juicy fruits. For canning, you need natural honey and vinegar, always apple. Components that the hostess will need:

peppers - 6 kg;
honey - 1 tbsp;
apple cider vinegar - 250 ml;
oil - 375 ml;
water - 1.5 l;
s alt - 60 g;
sugar - ½ cup;
garlic - 15 cloves;
peppercorns - 5 pcs.;
carnation inflorescences - 3 pcs;
bay leaf - 1 pc

Cooking steps:

boil marinade;
fruits, slowly, cut into strips of arbitrary width, pour them into a boiling filling, cook for 5 minutes;
pour peeled, chopped garlic into small pieces, pour vinegar;
boil for 15 minutes;
pour into a jar, immediately roll up.

Roasted bell peppers

It takes 30 minutes to cook. To store spicy snacks, you need to have a cellar or a free shelf in the refrigerator. Jars of fried peppers will be covered with nylon tires, so they will not stand for long in a warm pantry. What you need for this original blank:

pepper - 1 kg;
hot pepper - 1 pod;
butter - ½ tbsp;
vinegar and garlic - 100 g each;
s alt - 40g

You need to cook sequentially:

fry the seeded pods in vegetable oil in a cast iron pan, fry with the lid closed;
fried fruit to cool;
clean the seeds from hot pepper with a knife, cut the pod into very small pieces;
grind garlic cloves, mix thoroughly with s alt, add pieces of hot pepper and table vinegar to the garlic mass;
remove skin from fried fruit;
roll each pod in the spicy mixture and put them in a jar, top up with hot oil;
close the tire.

Lecho with beans

Beans (dry beans) and sweet peppers make a nutritious snack. It will take a lot of time to prepare vegetables due to the fact that the beans need to be soaked for as long as 12 hours, and then boiled. But it is not necessary to sterilize the workpiece, it is convenient. For lecho you will need:

beans (white) - 2.5 tbsp;
ripe tomatoes - 3.5 kg;
sweet pepper - 2 kg;
hot pepper - 1 pod;
vinegar - 4 tsp;
sunflower oil - 1 tbsp;
sugar - 1 tbsp;
s alt - 4 tsp

Cook the workpiece in the following order:

cook the beans for 30 minutes with the lid open, cool;
chopping the fruits of sweet pepper, it is better to cut them into squares;
remove the stalk from tomatoes with a knife, first cut them into arbitrary slices, then chop them (meat grinder, blender);
boil the resulting mass, sometimes stirring with a spoon, it will take at least 20 minutes to boil it down;
pour the slices into the tomato mass, cook for 15 minutes;
fill in the beans, cook for 10 minutes, adding butter and sugar with s alt;
toward the end of cooking, pour in the vinegar according to the norm, gently mix the mass, remove the pan from the burner;
pour hot lecho into jars and roll up.

Ajika

It will take no more than 30 minutes to make a portion of adjika. The appetizer is spicy, so it causes appetite. Adjika is harvested for the winter to serve it with meat. Ingredients:

pepper (sweet) - 3 kg;
pepper (hot) red - 4 pcs.;
garlic - 5 heads;
9% vinegar - 1 tbsp;
sugar - 1 tbsp;
s alt - 1 tbsp. l.

Remove all seeds from sweet pepper pods. To obtain a homogeneous mass, scroll the fruits in a meat grinder or chop with a blender. The resulting mass must be brought to a boil and boil for 3 minutes. Stir in garlic and remaining ingredients. Cook for another 3 minutes, pour adjika into jars, close it with boiled lids.

Stuffed peppers

Preparing cabbage stuffed peppers for the winter is easy. To prepare 6 servings you will need ingredients:

pepper - 6 pcs.;
cabbage - 600 g;
onion turnip - 2 pcs.;
tomato paste - 240 g;
water - 900 ml;
sunflower oil - 90 ml;
s alt (to taste).

Cabbage and onion are finely chopped, fried in a pan. Pods (without seeds, partitions) are blanched for 3 minutes, stuffed with vegetables. The paste is diluted with water, s alted, brought to a boil. Fruits stuffed with vegetables are placed in a tomato, boiled for 30 minutes, laid out in jars, poured with brine, closed with lids.

Vegetable Pepper Caviar

Caviar in winter is always welcome. To cook it, you need to take:

pepper (sweet) - 2 kg;
pepper (hot) - 1 pc.;
onion turnip - 1 kg;
9% vinegar - 0.5 tbsp;
vegetable oil - 150 ml;
spices - 1 tbsp. l.;
sugar - 0.5 tbsp;
s alt - 0.5 tsp

Wash all vegetables and pass through a meat grinder, cook for 30 minutes, adding all the spices, excluding vinegar. Pour it in at the very end, then pour the caviar into jars and roll up.

In a tomato

For a 1.5-liter jar of peppers in tomato you will need:

1L tomato juice;
pepper fruit - 6 pieces;
vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
butter - 2 tbsp. l.;
s alt - 30 g;
sugar - 75 g.

Boil the tomato juice, pour in the oil while stirring, then add the norm of sugar, s alt. Wash the fruits, pierce them with a wooden skewer in different places, immerse them in tomato juice, boil for about 15 minutes. Transfer the boiled pods to a sterile jar, pour boiling tomato sauce, season with vinegar. Roll up the finished workpiece.

With eggplant

Delightful winter preparation, but the hostess will have to tinker with it. In order to prepare this original appetizer, it will take more than 2 hours. List of what you need for cooking:

pepper - 0.5 kg;
eggplant - 0.4 kg;
greens (cilantro, dill, coriander) - 180 g (60 g each);
garlic - 80 g;
bay leaf - 2 pieces;
peppercorns - 3 pcs.;
water - 125 ml;
s alt - 30 g;
sugar - 50 g;
vinegar - 25 ml.

Cooking steps:

from the fruits (pods), first remove the partitions and seeds, then they should be blanched for 5 minutes, removed and cooled;
peeled eggplant, cut with a sharp knife into long slices 5 mm thick, fry first on one side, then on the other side;
finely chop the garlic cloves and greens, mix them until smooth;
spread eggplant slices evenly with this mixture, roll them into rolls;
stuff pods with eggplant (rolls);
marinade (water + s alt + vinegar + sugar) boil for 2 minutes;
spice put on the bottom of the jar (sterilized);
pack tightly the pods stuffed with eggplant rolls;
heat oven to 180 °C;
pour the hot marinade into jars, send them to the oven, after 40 minutes, take out, twist.

With zucchini

Canned vegetables retain nutrients. An appetizer with zucchini is served with boiled potatoes, garnished with fresh herbs. For salad take:

peppers - 0.5 kg;
zucchini - 1 kg;
garlic - 7 cloves;
tomato paste - 200 ml;
oils - 50 ml;
water - 300 ml;
vinegar - 50 ml;
allspice and black peppercorns - 6 pcs;
bay leaf - 3 pieces;
s alt -15 g;
sugar - 12 g.

Cut vegetables into neat cubes. Completely dissolve sugar, s alt in water, add 50 ml of oil there, put the paste.Season the vegetable mixture with the marinade, simmer for 30 minutes. Almost at the end, add spices, pour vinegar, boil for 2 minutes, pour into jars prepared according to all the rules.

With cucumbers

Late varieties of cucumbers are harvested at the end of summer. They are s alted, marinated and included in winter salads. To taste, not overripe cucumbers with sweet bell peppers go well together. These vegetables make a delicious appetizer, for its preparation you will need:

pepper - 600 g;
cucumbers - 4 kg;
onion heads - 1 kg;
garlic - 5 cloves;
bay leaf - 5 pieces;
paprika - 1 tsp;
vinegar - 125 ml;
s alt - 120 g;
sugar - 200 g;
oil - 125 ml;
water - 3 l.

The aesthetics and taste of this snack depends on how the vegetables are chopped. It is better to cut the onion heads into rings, cut the cucumbers into round slices, cut the prepared pods into wide strips. Place all ingredients together in a cooking bowl. Her bottom should be thick. After s alting the chopped vegetables, set the container aside for an hour. They will give juice.

Boil water in another saucepan with s alt, oil, vinegar and sugar. Pour the still boiling filling into a saucepan with chopped vegetables, pour chopped garlic cloves into the gurgling mixture. Mix hot vegetable mass well. Pour into jars, sterilize for 15 minutes, twist at the end.

With bow

This original seaming takes only 60 minutes to prepare. It can be considered the easiest recipe. It includes vegetables:

peppers - 1000 g;
turnip - 400 g;
greens - 50 g;
tomatoes - 1500 g.

To prepare the filling, take:

butter - 1 tbsp;
s alt - 30 g;
sugar - 25 g.

Cook the appetizer according to the following algorithm:

first cut the pods into pieces;
then peel the onion heads and cut them into half rings of medium thickness;
fry all chopped vegetables, each type separately;
carefully remove the skin from tomatoes scalded in boiling water;
grind the peeled tomatoes with a blender;
add oil to the mass, heat, at the moment of boiling add s alt, sugar;
after 3 minutes, pour the vegetable mixture into the filling, boil for 5 minutes, then spread it into the prepared container, close.

With garlic

To enhance the taste, a large bunch of fragrant cilantro and young, fragrant dill are added to this winter preparation of the hostess. In addition to greens, suneli hops and ground black pepper are used. Spices are put at their discretion, the rest of the ingredients are measured exactly as indicated in the recipe:

pepper - 1000 g;
vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.;
6 garlic cloves;
s alt - 10 g;
sugar - 25g;
butter - 4 tbsp. l.

Always take table vinegar not stronger than 9%, use vegetable or sunflower oil, but always refined. First, wash, dry, finely chop the greens. Garlic cloves are crushed with a garlic press. Some housewives prefer to grate the slices.

Fruits are cleaned, washed well, cut into pieces. All components, excluding vinegar, are mixed. They let it stand. After an hour, the mixture is brought to a boil, after which it is stewed for 20 minutes, vinegar is added a few minutes before the end of cooking, packaged, rolled up.

How to properly store blanks

Jars with blanks that have been sterilized stand well on the shelf of the refrigerator, pantry, cellar Snacks that have not undergone sterilization do not deteriorate for a long time at a temperature of 0-5 ° C. They should be kept in the dark, away from heaters. Opened cans are placed in the refrigerator. Good housewives keep jars with blanks for 1-2 years and do not explode.