Home Vegetables Can You Freeze Peppers? Whether it’s sweet romano peppers or your common bell pepper, all varieties of pepper add a sweet and juicy hit of flavour to can you freeze cheese spread range of dishes from pasta sauces to summery salads. But is there a way you can have peppers ready-prepared for easy midweek meals? Yes, you can freeze peppers for up to 6 months.
To freeze peppers, clean them up then prepare your peppers as you normally would. Freeze on a baking tray then, when solid, tip into a freezer bag and freeze for the long term. As always with any vegetables, make sure you give them a good clean under running water and then pat them dry before you begin to look at freezing them. Once you’ve given your peppers a clean, discard any that have mould or have damage to the outside. By freezing, you won’t fix any problems so you’re better off freezing perfect peppers from the get-go. Now that you have perfect pepper, prepare them by cutting them in half and removing the seeds. You can now slice the peppers how you would normally cut them up.
You now need to flash freeze them. Simply spread them out on a baking tray, ensuring no peppers are touching. Place in the freezer for a couple of hours until your pepper slices are frozen solid. You can then remove the tray from the freezer and tip the frozen slices into a bag and return them to the freezer.
This method will work for any peppers cut into any size whether you like really thin strings, chunks or rings. Yes, you can freeze raw peppers. In fact, you don’t need to blanch peppers before freezing like you do with many other types of vegetables. They tend to hold up much better in the freezer. Yes, peppers can be frozen chopped, sliced or diced. The shape and size of the pepper pieces doesn’t matter as the method remains the same in both cases. Peppers can be frozen with other vegetables to create ready-to-use mixed vegetable bags.