what to do with green peppers?

littlelily613

I just got an amazing deal on green peppers from the farmer's market. Paid 5$ and got about 20 peppers. Of course it's only a good deal if I don't let them rot. Any ideas on what to do with them? They need to be paleo friendly!

meganfoster12

stir fry

sistrsprkl

Stuffed peppers, freeze extra.
Fajitas
Just dice and freeze for later

jomckillop

white fish, bacon, peppers, chopped tomatos, fry it all up in a pan, grate cheese over and gril - yummy

Sabine_Stroehm

Grill em and put em on a steak.

Stuff them with something.

Stir fry them

Add them to salad

Edwardshar

Cajun food! Green peppers are in all the recipes. Jambalaya! Yum!

RoninsMom5

I put them in salsa, with cucumber, onion, jalapeno, and tomatoes of coarse season with cumin, a little sea salt and garlic powder

sentaruu

eat them... you should definitely eat them

MyLovesMyLife

grill them and eat them with anything

mccindy72

Fajitas
Salad
Paleo-friendly pizza - there is such a thing

MD1978

I have a bumper crop from our garden I use them for stir fry and omelets. Last night I chopped up potatoes, onions, green peppers and garlic and cooked in the skillet...then added cooked ground sausage.

KellySue67

Just dice and freeze for later

This. It works best if you can slice them, lay them in a single layer on a cookie sheet and start to freeze them a bit before packaging them in containers or baggies. They don't stick together so much when you pull them out to use for stir fry or whatever else you might be making.

DianeFrannie

stuffed pepper soup

soopaang

-Sliced, Raw
-Stuffed (can take out rice for Paleo friendly)
-Add to almost any sauce
-Sautee with onions and garlic and turn into a broth/cream based soup
-Stir Fry
-Gumbo
-Add to a breakfast hash

maroonmango211

Anything and everything, eat them raw, fry them, steam them, sautee them, grill them, put them in soup/stew, stuff them in some sort of meat. By far one of the best and most versatile veggies!

FatOldManMN

Sausage and peppers....a little onion too.

littlelily613

eat them... you should definitely eat them

Very insightful... Thanks for the tip...

dklibert

Sweet Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup
http://soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2012/11/sweet-stuffed-bell-pepper-soup.html
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

Medium onion, diced
Salt and black pepper to taste
Pinch of red pepper flakes
16 oz lean ground beef or turkey
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 bell peppers, chopped (use any color combination you like)
1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
4 cups beef or chicken broth
1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
Parmesan (optional)

Directions

Spray a large pot with non-stick cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic, sprinkle with salt & peppers and allow them to sweat for a few minutes. Add the ground beef and brown. While the beef is browning, chop the peppers, and puree the stewed tomatoes in the blender. Once the beef is brown, stir in the chopped peppers and the diced tomatoes. Let the flavors mix a bit. Add the pureed stewed tomatoes and broth. Add the rice and raise the heat to high. Bring everything to a boil then cover and reduce to a simmer. Continue to simmer for about 30 - 40 minutes until rice is tender. Serve with a sprinkle of parmesan if you like.

littlelily613

Thanks for all the serious ideas. Welcoming others as well. Bad thing is that I don't have a deep freeze, but I can still freeze some of them

littlelily613

Sweet Stuffed Bell Pepper Soup
http://soupspiceeverythingnice.blogspot.com/2012/11/sweet-stuffed-bell-pepper-soup.html
Makes 6 servings

Ingredients

Medium onion, diced
Salt and black pepper to taste
Pinch of red pepper flakes
16 oz lean ground beef or turkey
3 cloves garlic, minced
4 bell peppers, chopped (use any color combination you like)
1 (14.5 oz) can stewed tomatoes
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
4 cups beef or chicken broth
1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
Parmesan (optional)

Directions

Spray a large pot with non-stick cooking spray and heat over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic, sprinkle with salt & peppers and allow them to sweat for a few minutes. Add the ground beef and brown. While the beef is browning, chop the peppers, and puree the stewed tomatoes in the blender. Once the beef is brown, stir in the chopped peppers and the diced tomatoes. Let the flavors mix a bit. Add the pureed stewed tomatoes and broth. Add the rice and raise the heat to high. Bring everything to a boil then cover and reduce to a simmer. Continue to simmer for about 30 - 40 minutes until rice is tender. Serve with a sprinkle of parmesan if you like.

Mmmmm I will leave the rice out and try this for sure!!!

HeidiCooksSupper

Green peppers are one of the easiest things to freeze. You just cut them in half, take out the seeds, wash them and throw them in a bag to freeze. No blanching or anything else. They do lose their stiffness after freezing so they are not much use for salads but great to use cooked. Getting a little fancier, so you can grab a handful at a time out of the freezer, is to cut them up, dry them with a paper towel, and freeze the pieces in a single layer on a cookie sheet. If you throw them into a bag when they are already frozen, they shouldn't stick together in one big lump. My mother always froze a bushel or so of green peppers for us to eat all winter.

Also, look for cheap red peppers right now. They can be frozen the same way or roasted first and then either frozen or whirred into a puree and frozen. The frozen red pepper puree can be turned into soup or a good pasta/veggie sauce.

dklibert

Creole Spaghetti

1 lb smoked turkey sausage, sliced
2 medium onions, sliced
2 bell peppers, sliced
Tony’s Charere’s Cajun Seasoning
1 jar low fat Pasta Sauce, traditional flavor
1 box of spaghetti

Bring a large pot of water to boil for the spaghetti. In another large pot, saute onions, peppers and turkey sausage. Sprinkle with Cajun seasoning. Add pasta sauce. bring to a boil and lower heat to just simmering. Cover pot and stir occasionally. Simmer for 15 minutes to let flavors blend and until pasta is done. Drop spaghetti and cook according to package. Drain pasta and toss with some of the sauce. Top with remaining sauce to serve.

labrennan

great ideas! creole spaghetti sounds really good

osmium3

How paleo do wish to get?

Raw is as paleo as one can likely get. Maybe raw w/mutton..Okay, I admit to being an utter *kitten*. I just snickered at green Bell peppers w/mutton.

Juiced would likely be nearly as healthy. I know of no souls that juice green Bell peppers.

Third most paleo would be lightly steamed. In fact, simply penning this response has ME lightly steamed. Okay, so that's a lie, but you have to get your gags in where one can.

Since everyone else stole ideas from inside my head, I can only add a link to other links at the nexus of paleolithic recipes and green Bell peppers.

Another sort of cool Google search tool is Recipe View the link: http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/recipes/

Taking it one step further, here is page no. 1 for the following search criteria entered into Recipe View: green+Bell+Peppers+Paleo

https://www.google.com/search?q=green+bell+peppers+paleo&tbs=rcp:1&hl=en&gws_rd=ssl#q=green+bell+peppers+paleo&hl=en&tbm=rcp&filter=0

You'll note the end of the string has this: "&filter=0" That's simply because I wanted you(the OP) to be able to view more than only the first 10 results.

I hope that someone finds the tool both new to them, and useful. After all, isn't that the whole point of sharing stuff on MFP?

Best of success with your new Bell peppers. If you look at the search results, you'll no doubt find too many uses for your bargain pepper bonanza!

On Edit: I simply corrected a spelling error. "Form" and "from" differ decidedly.

dklibert

Sorry! I missed the paleo friendly part. My apologies.

littlelily613

Sorry! I missed the paleo friendly part. My apologies.

I thought so but I can replace the pasta with spaghetti squash... Still sounds like a good recipe!!!

littlelily613

Thanks for all the new ideas!! Getting excited about my month of green peppers

sentaruu

eat them... you should definitely eat them

Very insightful... Thanks for the tip...

:flowerforyou:

canadjineh

Stuff em, or chargrill/fireroast & freeze after cutting into big strips for recipes later on.

Mygsds

I throw in the blender with a little water, grind up and run through colander and put in ice cube trays and when frozen pop out put in freezer bag and then when you want for soups, hot dishes, take out as many as you want... .

NoriDupuis

you can stuffed then with just about anything meat, rice other veggies
but my fav thing is to get them roasted off onthe bbq and put them in the frazzer then you can add them to soup and stew ect any time over the winter when pepper are realy expencive