Bulgarian pepper in oil for winter

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to marinate bell peppers in oil for the winter? Prepare the products. The preparation will turn out to be more interesting and bright if you use Bulgarian pepper of different colors for its preparation, placing red, green and yellow fruits in one jar. For pickling, take elastic, fresh peppers. Rinse them thoroughly under running water, cut out the stems with seeds. Rinse again to remove the remaining seeds.

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the peppers into large pieces or quarters.

3. Step 3:

   

   Prepare the marinade. How to make marinade? Pour water into a saucepan, add vegetable oil and vinegar, sugar, salt, bay leaf and allspice. Turn on the heat, bring the mixture to a boil, stir so that the sugar and salt dissolve. Put the prepared pepper in the marinade. Do this in batches, since all the pepper in one go in a saucepan and this amount of marinade will not fit.

4. Step 4:

   

   When the marinade with pepper boils, gently stir it and let it boil for about 5 minutes. This time is enough for such a billet. However, by changing the time of heat treatment, you can change the taste of pepper — make it softer by boiling more time, or more crispy and elastic, limited to five minutes. See according to your preferences.

6. Step 5:

   

   Prepare jars in advance for this preparation — sterilize them in any convenient way: in a water bath, in an oven or in a microwave oven. Wash the lids to the jars and boil them.

7. Step 6:

   

   Wash the fresh dill greens thoroughly and dry on a paper towel. Peel the garlic cloves and cut into slices or pieces.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put dill and a few cloves of garlic on the bottom of the jars, put pieces of bell pepper on top tightly, cover with dill, add garlic. If desired, herbs and garlic can not be added, but they give a pleasant aroma and flavor to Bulgarian pepper. Pour the contents of the jars with boiling marinade. Roll up the jars with lids, then turn them upside down, wrap them with a blanket and let them cool at room temperature. Store it in a cool place.