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3 Green peppers are in season, as evidenced by the 10 peppers in my farm share box plus 8 more from my garden!<\/p>\n3 Green peppers are in season, as evidenced by the 10 peppers in my farm share box plus 8 more from my garden!<\/p>\n
Usually I think of using green peppers as a sidekick, e.g., in a breakfast scramble with tomatoes, onions and chiles, in classic Chicken Cacciatore and of course in about every Mexican dish.<\/p>\n
I’ve never seen or used green peppers solo, although I’ve always wondered if they couldn\u2019t at least co-star in a dish. Hence my experiment last week with Gingery Green Peppers and Carrots, where the carrots’ sweetness complimented the peppers nicely.<\/p>\n
While I almost always begin a recipe by sauteing the onions, in this recipe I start by simmering the carrots in a little bit of water since they always take so long to soften. Once they have a headstart, I add and saute the onions. If you are using big carrots, cut in half vertically before slicing to cook faster.<\/em><\/p>\n Step 1: Start Cooking Carrots Combine in a small to medium skillet and cover. Bring to a boil over high heat then quickly turn down to low and simmer about 5 to 8 minutes, until carrots are just becoming tender when stuck with a fork, adding an extra tablespoon or two of water if necessary to prevent burning. When carrots are just tender, remove lid and cook off any remaining water.<\/p>\n Step 2: Saute Aromatics Turn heat to medium, push carrots to sides of pan and add oil to center of pan. Once it is hot but not smoking, add onions and saute a couple minutes, then add pepper and saute another 5 minutes until just becoming tender.<\/p>\n Step 3: Saute Ginger Push vegetables to sides of pan and add 1-2 tsp. coconut oil to center. When just warm (not hot), stir ginger into oil and cook about a minute or two until fragrant. Stir everything together and continue sauteing about 3 to 5 more minutes until vegetables are tender to taste. If necessary, add a tablespoon or two or water and\/or cover pan to soften vegetables to taste.<\/p>\n Step 4: Season Season vegetables with just salt and pepper or have some fun with either Chinese or Thai flavorings<\/p>\n Here’s the Chinese-style combo I used (measurements are just a starting point; add to taste) Or try one or more of these Thai seasonings (add to taste)<\/strong><\/p>\n Got any other seasoning ideas? Put them in the Comments!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3 Green peppers are in season, as evidenced by the 10 peppers in my farm share box plus 8 more from my garden! Usually I think of using green peppers as a sidekick, e.g., in a breakfast scramble with tomatoes, onions and chiles, in classic Chicken Cacciatore and of course in about every Mexican dish. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20,23],"tags":[283,371,514,515],"class_list":["post-6057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-make-vegetables-taste-good","category-recipes","category-seasonal-eating","tag-healthy-cooking","tag-local-and-sustainable-eating","tag-seasonal-cooking","tag-seasonal-eating","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6057\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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