Chilli freezing fresh-keeping method

Peppers can be frozen, but freezing peppers is not recommended. Because fresh peppers contain water, some free water in frozen peppers will freeze into ice, which will destroy the meat quality of peppers and soften the taste after thawing. Pepper is better in the refrigerator.

Put fresh peppers in food bags and store them in the refrigerator. It is characterized by maintaining the fresh and spicy flavor of pepper. It can be kept for about two years, but it is best to keep it within one year. This method requires a lot of pepper. Only those peppers with very hard and full texture can be frozen, such as wild mountain pepper, morning pepper and millet pepper. , you should choose them correctly.

If other peppers are frozen, they will be completely soft after thawing. If necessary, take some out of the food bag, rinse it slightly and use it, and put the rest in the refrigerator for frozen preservation. Mainly used for seasoning cold Sichuan cuisine and pasta.

How to preserve peppers?

1. Put it in a ventilated place.

If you can't eat peppers or buy too much for a while, you can spread them out and store them in a cool and ventilated place. This can keep the surface of pepper dry and not easy to get moldy. At the same time, it can be placed for a long time, usually three to five days. But after a long time, the water on the surface of pepper will evaporate, so it is recommended to eat the bought pepper within three to five days.

Boil it into Chili sauce

Sometimes in the season when a large number of peppers are on the market, the price is very cheap and can't be released for a long time, so it can be used to make Chili sauce. The prepared Chili sauce has long storage time and good taste, and can be used to make various dishes.

Put it in the fresh-keeping area

Now the storage function of the refrigerator is very large, not only for refrigeration and freezing, but also for fresh-keeping area. The fresh-keeping area can keep food fresh for five to 15 days, so it is also good to keep peppers fresh in the fresh-keeping area.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chili