Easy Marinated Sweet Peppers
Peppers are a staple and much-loved vegetables in the Balkans. They are used in so many different ways - in pickles, salads, dips and cooking. The recipe here will instruct you on how to marinate peppers and make salad with them. I love this recipe, it's super simple and the flavours are amazing.
Ingredients
- 400 g sweet red peppers deseeded
- 5-6 cloves garlic peeled and sliced in chunks
- 1 bunch parsley stalks removed
Marinade
- 80 g water
- 80 g red wine vinegar
- 80 g kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon honey
Instructions
- Wash the peppers well. Chargrill them on a barbecue or roast them in the oven for 30 minutes at 180C. Place the peppers, straight out of the grill or oven, into a large bowl and cover with a lid. Leave the peppers to steam inside the covered bowl for 15 minutes, then peel the skins.
- Mix all the ingredients for the marinade in a large clean bowl and place the peppers in the marinade. Cover the bowl with cling film/plstic wrap or a lid and let them marinate for at least 30 minutes to absorb the flavours.
- Arrange the peppers on a large plate . Sprinkle chopped parsley over the peppers and serve.
- To preserve the marinated peppers, arrange them in layers and sprinkle fresh parsley and chunks of garlic between the layers of peppers. Pour the marinated from the bowl into the jar packed with marinated peppers. Leave 1 inch headspace and secure the lid
- Keep the packed jars with marinated peppers in the fridge for up to two weeks, or process the jars in a pressure canner or water bath, if you plan to keep the peppers longer. Store canned marinated peppers in a cool place and consume within one year.