How experienced housewives use pepper seeds in cooking
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An experienced housewife always has a few secret inventions that excite friends and guests. And most often they are aimed at saving money, because nothing goes to waste in a good housewife.
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Housewives keep seed boxes of sweet pepper, which are thrown away in large quantities during the winter harvesting period or simply under cooking time.
You can make a surprisingly beautiful, aromatic and tasty seasoning from them, which cannot be compared to even the best one from the store.
Preparation of raw materials
After cutting out the seed pods from the pepper, it is necessary to put them in a separate container together with the grains.
Then you need to cut the stalk, and cut the pulp into thin pieces and dry it. All the grains that fall off during the cutting process are also dried.
You can do this in an electric dryer or in the oven, putting it on a sheet covered with parchment and leaving it overnight at a temperature of 50 °. The oven door must be open.
If the cores are few, they can simply be spread out on paper and left to dry in a dry room. During the season, a decent amount is collected, and then you can start the second part of the preparation.
Preparing the seasoning
Dry pieces of seed pods must be crushed. It is most convenient to do this in a coffee grinder, but you can also use another method, for example, grinding in a mortar, if there are not many raw materials.
They can be large, small, and you can grind the workpieces into flour. Here everyone chooses the most successful option.
The bright yellow aromatic seasoning is ready. It is ideal for first and second courses, giving them not only an amazing smell, but also a golden color.
Combinations and options
It is not necessary to limit yourself solo seasoning. It can be combined with other dry ingredients:
- Mix with dried garlic powder.
- Mix with paprika (dry and grind the flesh of the bell pepper).
- Mix with dried tomato powder.
< li>Add a few pods of hot pepper (the amount of hot addition depends on your love for hot spices).
Combinations can be any which ones The main thing is to focus on your own taste.
Not only thrifty housewives will like this trick. After all, the seasoning prepared by oneself is really better than its store counterparts.
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