How to Freeze Bell Peppers

Does it make much of a difference flash freezing over throwing them chopped in a zipper baggy and freezing that way? I have always just thrown them in a baggy and they're fine though a bit watery. Will they be less watery when cooked if flash frozen?

To Chris, Mr. Organic. Take a look at what is happinging in Europe right now with the organic krap, with emphisis on krap. Organic in not all it is not cracked up to be. My guess is that Chris is from the left coast.

thank you for letting me know you can freeze bellpeppers joanne brown cairo ga

Make sure you buy organic bells if you can because they are on the top of the list of veggies high in pesticides. Of course with all the radiation and other things raining down on us from the tragedy in Japan, I don't know if 'organic' will mean anything anymore. Our media and government are not telling us anything near the truth about the amount of radiation we are being exposed to, especially when it rains or snows. Here is a true real forecast of the trajectory from the radiation in the planets jetstream: http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~tcanty/hysplit/ Stay out of the rain if you can! Make sure your iodine levels are normal because if they are low (which most people's are!) supplement them because if you don't, your body will absorb all the radioactive iodine to make up for it. Even if the levels of radioactive fallout are considered low-med, we will still the results in the next 1-5 years with a huge spike in cancer rates.

How do I keep the bright green color? Will lemon juice retard the the color change to olive drab?

Are you saying that you just wash and dry and then slice and put on a cookie sheet and put that in the freezer? that sounds too easy

That's my question too, Ginny...did you try? If so, how did they come out when you went to use them later?

can you also freeze roasted bell peppers?

I do this almost every time I have peppers. I have a tendency to only need 1/2 or 1 1/2 for whatever I'm making. The left over 1/2 gets sliced into strips and shoved in a sandwich bag. Best part is it means I always have pepper slices on hand to broil with my chicken, top my pizza, pepper steak sandwich, etc. Yum!

What I do is cit them just like that, and put them in a mason jar. Top off with boiling apple cider vinegar, and then put in fridge. A quick pickle I call it. works for leftover garlic, onions, peppers, and such.

Not a true 'can for a year' pickle, but a simple one. I like to make mixes and then laddle out some to spice up beans in a crockpot or to sizzle in a pan before making an scrambled egg. I call the mixes 'bean spice'.

I would assume that you can do jalepinos the same way. I dont eat them but my son does. We got alot of them this year

The last time I got a good sale on peppers....5 POUNDS for $2!! Yes, It was at the end of the season at a farmer's stand...anyway, I also froze several halved peppers. I used them for stuffed peppers. And the frozen peppers made the stuffing part so much easier.
Having already chopped, and prepared veggies in the freezer is so nice when you're short on time.

I have a bag of pepper rings and slices I made with on sale peppers a couple of weeks ago. I am glad to know they will keep for 8 months! I am going to buy some more this weekend (3/$2 and yes that's a crazy good sale around here)

I've also successfully frozen (and later, actually used) bell pepper halves for making stuffed peppers. Just stuff them while still frozen, then bake.

Funny you should mention this, since I used my frozen bell peppers in Jambalya last night. However, mine had frozen together in a solid clump. I found that banging them against the counter broke the pieces apart, much like you would a bag of ice.

Hugs,
Melinda