Pick and wash your peppers, and place them a a baking dish lined generously with foil. Place them on the top rack of your oven and broil on low, checking ever 3-4 minutes.
The skins will blacken and separate from the meat. Your kitchen will begin to smell of pepper heaven. Turn them and continue broiling until they are blackened all over.
Remove the dish from the oven and pull the foil up over the peppers then fold the edges together and roll them tightly to hold in all the steam and heat. Wait awhile until they cool before opening the packet. this step is important so the skin slide right off.
For this next step, I suggest you wear some sort of gloves for your own protection. The heat in the peppers will stay on your hands for a while and if you rub an eye......
Hold the stem end in one hand and with the other gently loosen the roasted skin all the way around from the stem. (Sorry I couldn't photograph and peel pepper skin at the same time) You should be able to pull the skin down and off with a couple of trys still holding the stem. Next, still holding the stem, separate the pepper meat from the stem and hopefully the seeds inside will come out when you pull the stem loose. I like to remove the seeds but I don't worry if there are a few left behind. It takes only a couple of minutes to peel them because of allowing them to steam in that foil pouch. Yay!
I only roast what we will use up in a week; I store them in a jar in the fridge. I chop them before adding them to my dishes. I am going to try to freeze them after roasting and see if that works at all. Have any of you tried that? Will it work?
I link at these parties.
Copyright © 2013 by Hill House Homestead ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
We were given a whole bunch of peppers I need to roast some of them. I haven't roasted & frozen them. Only cut cup & frozen some for soups & chili. Theresa @DearCreatives
ReplyDeleteTheresa, I roasted and froze some with the skin on as Jann Olson suggested. They were really nice! Great tip.
DeleteI commented on your other post regarding stringing/drying them. My father-in-law used to say that it depended on the amount of rain and when it rained if the tomatoes would be sweet and the peppers would be mild or strong. I will I would have paid better attention. :)
ReplyDeleteYour instructions are terrific! Several in my family love hot peppers and roasting them will give me another way to serve them up. I'm wondering about freezing, too, or even canning. I would think they'd be fine for casseroles and sauces.
ReplyDeletestopping by from WFMW.
Thanks for the great idea, that for some reason made me crave Mexican food!
ReplyDeleteThose sure look good enough to eat! Best yet that they are home grown which may be why they are a bit stronger. Seems no matter how careful I try to be I always end up rubbing my eye. Can't tell you the number of times I didn't use gloves, later took out my contacts and then tried to put them in again the next day. OUCH!
ReplyDeleteYes ouch!
DeleteThanks so much for sharing at my Twirl & Take a Bow Party. Have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteMake sure you wear gloves whenever you work with peppers. And the roasted peppers sound fantastic!
ReplyDeleteYes please wear gloves! I buy big boxes of disposable kitchen gloves at Costco. Use them for cutting meat too.
DeleteI bought a bag of roasted peppers from a local stand. The man told me that they are easy to freeze. I took them home and froze them in lots of 6. Wish I could tell you if it worked. Haven't had a chance to try them yet. I want to try making rellenos. He told me not to peel them until I used them. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
ReplyDeletehugs,
Jann
Thanks Jann for the tip! I froze them with the skin on and I will see how they turn out.
DeleteI recently used a bag of frozen peppers roasted and frozen with the skin on. They were great! Really couldn't tell they had been frozen. Thanks again for the tip!
DeleteWow, these turned out fantastic. Thanks for sharing on the weekend re-Treat link party!
ReplyDeleteBritni @ Play. Party. Pin.
I didn't realize the skin would just come right off like that. Thanks for linking up to Gingerly Made's Show & Tell.
ReplyDeleteWish I were your neighbor so I could take some of those peppers off your hands for you. :) Thanks for sharing at Inspire Us Thursday on Organized 31.
ReplyDeleteI would share a bunch with you!
DeleteI love putting peppers in lots of my meals since it's an easy way to add veggies to my diet. Thanks for sharing this at Frugal Crafty Home Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteI have so been wanting to roast peppers! These look amazing!
ReplyDelete