How to pickle chopped peppers?

Chili pepper is a very common ingredient for us. There are many ways to eat chili pepper, and different regions have different ways of eating chili pepper. The more common way to eat chili pepper in life is to make it into chopped pepper. Chopped pepper can not only be eaten directly, but also can be eaten with other dishes or meat. For people who like spicy food, chopped pepper is very popular. So how to pickle chopped pepper?

How to pickle chopped peppers

1. Wash and dry the red peppers, cut them into pieces, and put the cut peppers in a large bowl.

2. Add salt and ginger foam and mix well. Then add white wine and lees and mix well.

3. Finally, add garlic and rock sugar, stir, and marinate for a day before eating.

How to store peppers

1. Brewing method

Just wash and dry the fresh peppers, then put them into a kimchi jar and soak them for about two months. It is characterized by sour and spicy taste. Generally, it can be stored for more than two years, but about a year is better. If it is stored for too long, it will become an empty shell. When using, you need to change the knife to process it, either chop it into minced meat or cut it into shreds. It is mainly used as an ingredient in fish-flavored Sichuan dishes, and can also be eaten directly with rice.

2. Freezing method

Put the fresh peppers into a food bag and store them in the refrigerator. The characteristic is that it retains the fresh, spicy and fragrant taste of the pepper. It can be stored for about two years, but preferably within one year. This method has certain requirements for peppers. Only peppers with a very hard and plump texture can be frozen and preserved, such as wild peppers, chili peppers, millet peppers, etc., and they must also be selected appropriately. Other peppers, if frozen, will soften completely when thawed. When needed, take out some from the food bag, rinse them lightly and use them, and keep the rest in the refrigerator. It is mainly used for seasoning cold Sichuan dishes and noodle dishes.

3. Sauce making method

Chop the fresh red pepper, add salt and store. It can be added to bean paste to make chili bean paste, or it can be directly made into chili sauce. The main characteristics are salty and spicy. Because it retains all the moisture, it needs to be placed in a container. Open it when you need it, and seal it again after you are done. It can be stored for several years. It can be put into the pot directly, but you should pay great attention to the amount of salt used in the dish. Used in most stir-fried, roasted and some steamed Sichuan dishes, such as steamed pork with rice flour.

Nutritional value of chopped peppers

1. Strengthen the spleen and help digestion

Chili peppers contain capsaicin and crude fiber, which can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and promote appetite.

2. Weight loss

Capsaicin can stimulate the brain to release endorphins, relieve pain, speed up metabolism, and keep people slim.

3. Reduce blood pressure and lipids

It can lower cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, and triglyceride levels, promote blood circulation, and prevent diseases such as heart disease and stroke.

4. Other effects

Eliminate stomach cold; chili pepper has a significant effect on preventing colds, arteriosclerosis, night blindness and scurvy.

Tips for cutting peppers

Everyone may have had this experience: after cutting peppers, your hands feel as if they were burned by fire and are burning hot. At this time, some people will rinse with cold water, but this can only slightly relieve the pain and cannot completely solve the problem. In fact, you can remove the spiciness by applying alcohol, vinegar, washing your hands with hot water, etc. The substance that produces the spicy taste in chili peppers is a type of capsaicin, which is collectively called capsaicin. When cutting peppers, capsaicin sticks to the skin, causing the capillaries to dilate, resulting in redness and heat of the skin, and accelerating the local metabolic rate. At the same time, it will stimulate the pain nerves, which is why we usually feel burning hands. It is generally believed that this is caused by capsaicin causing chemical changes in the nerve endings of the skin.

Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline aqueous solutions, but insoluble in cold water. In industry, capsaicin is extracted from chili peppers using edible alcohol as an extractant. Therefore, based on this principle, in life, you can apply alcohol to dissolve the capsaicin on your hands. After cutting peppers, you can wipe your hands in one direction with an alcohol cotton ball, then wash your hands with clean water, and then dry them. Do this three times until the symptoms are relieved. In addition, you can also wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar. This is because vinegar is acidic and can neutralize capsaicin. If there is no medical alcohol or vinegar, washing your hands with hot water is also a good idea, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation under high temperature. Although it is not as effective as alcohol and vinegar, it is worse than cold water. Finally, let me tell you a method. When cutting peppers, you can press the peppers with the tips of your fingers instead of pinching them with your fingernails. This way, your hands will not be easily burned.