On Oct 21, 5:05*pm, Sheldon > wrote:
> James wrote:
> > I got some excess peppers both red and green so I'm using my
> > dehydrater to dry them. Takes 2 days a batch. My question is what
> > dishes uses dried bell pepper? Should I freeze them instead?
>
> How many peppers you talking... excess bell peppers is like excess
> beer.
>
> There are plenty of recipes that use a lot of bell peppers (stuffed)
> that freeze well. *Dehy peppers are fine, I use them myself... they
> come in very handy when you only need a litte or you just ran out,
> they're very convenient for soups/stews... I buy mine from Penzeys.
> But I would never dehydrate bell peppers, especially if all you can do
> is a small batch every two days, you'll spend more for electric than
> to buy them already dehydrated. *Why don't you just dice and freeze
> them as is, or saute and freeze, or use in a recipe and freeze that.
> The red ones are good roasted, they're nice in a sandwich

Had a dozen more but 5 got moldy so I just put the rest of them in the
dehydrater. It turned out that the dried bell peppers turned out
quite sweet so I can eat them like candy. It's good because raw bell
peppers don't agree with me. Hope I don't have trouble with the
dehydrated.