Cooking Tip: Roasting Red Peppers

Do you know how easy it is to roast peppers?  Sure you can buy them in jars, but the ones you roast yourself taste better and are fresher.

Anybody with $3.29 can buy roasted peppers, but it's so easy to do at home!

 When you see red peppers on sale, stock up and roast them so you can have this delicious vegetable on hand for sandwiches, salads, and side dishes. 

I roast them on the gas grill weather permitting.

If you have a gas burner, you can roast peppers inside all winter.

Put your peppers directly over a flame, inside or out.  You simply turn the pepper until all sides are blackened. 

Blackened pepper is a roasted pepper.

Once the entire pepper is blackened, either put in a bag and close, or put in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap.  Allow the pepper to steam for 10-15 minutes, and then rub off the blackened skin.  Pull out the seeds and membrane, and you have your own roasted red pepper.  Dice it up and throw into a pilaf or julienne and top a sandwich.  You may be surprised at how delicious and sweet this is.