How To Roast Peppers
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Learning how to roast peppers adds a great smoky flavor to any recipe! It’s simple and can be done on the stove, in the oven, or on the grill!
Chooo-Chooo!! The flavor train is rollin’ in friends – better hop on! Sorry about that. But not really. I’m still recovering from a weekend of cahoots and a lack of decent sleep so I say silly things. (What’s new?) There was not enough coffee in a Seattle Starbucks to wake me from this zombie like state. Pretty sure that not one person I talked to yesterday was having a good Monday – so let’s turn it all around and learn something new!
And delicious. Two of the best things.
Roasted peppers have a great fiery and sweet flavor to them. For this how-to I went with basic red bell peppers. But roasted poblanos – ohhh mama – divine! The steps to roast a bell pepper are the same for any other variety, so pick your favorite, maybe something with a little heat and go to Flavor Town, Population YOU! Sorry again – remember loopy.
Pre-heat your grill and clean the grates. Slather your peppers with olive oil on all sides, placing them onto the grill to begin to roast.
Grill baby, grill!
Cover with a lid, checking your peppers every few minutes, turning them when the skin starts to blacken.
Depending on your grill – it may take more or less time. I left them for about 5 minutes every side – but we use one of those cheap little tailgaiting BBQ’s… And this is why I wanted to get Ben a full size grill for the wedding. Nope, Mr. Practical wanted a CHEST FREEZER instead. Maybe the grill was more of a wedding gift from me, for him for me…but there is no need to slice hairs here – a good grill is a must have!
If you don’t have a grill – you can always roast your peppers under your broiler on a baking sheet, or if you have a gas range, you can plop each pepper right on top of the burner and roast it from there! Super handy.
Just repeat the char, rotate, char, rotate procedure and the results are perfect every time. This is such a versatile trick you can’t lose. And plus, roasting your own peppers just sounds impressive.
Yes, quite.
Once the peppers have roasted on all sides, place them into a plastic bag and seal them to steam. Steaming allows the skin to release from the meat of the peppers for easier peeling. Let them rest about 30 minutes, or until cool enough to get your mitts on them.
No burns here please!
The skin will peel off in sheets, just peel and discard. Along with the skin, remove the stem and the seeds inside the pepper.
When roasted pepper meat is all that remains you’re ready to go! Place your pepper on a panini, into pasta, mince add into a burger mix, or toss some in to your tomato sauce, or even onto a southwest pizza with grilled chicken! GASP, I think there is a pizza in my future!
So get your grill on and roast something other than your skin this summer! Peppers are so much better than sunburns. Just sayin’.
Wanna see more? Check out these other How-To Tuesdays of yore!
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My favorite method of roasting peppers is on the grill! It is so easy and adds awesome flavor!! Great tips!
Hope you get some sleep and have a good Tuesday!
Thanks Tiegs! I’m glad you’re a pepper roaster too. They’re just awesome sauce!
I love your how to posts! I have such a love/hate relationship with peppers and I think it’s the skin. I’ve never roasted them myself, so sounds like I’d really like them!
Leah you totally have to try roasting them! They’re amazing! And it’s so easy. I love them freshly roasted, amazeballs on a burger.
Beautiful photos and a great post!
Thanks Jen! The peppers did all the hard work of roasting, I just snapped a photo 🙂
Roasted peppers are the bomb! Poblanos are my favorite!
Poblanos are next on my list of peppers to roast!
Seriously gorge photos! And I really need to do this! I love roasted peppers!!!
Thanks Carla!! Give it a try, these are so worth it!
What a great tutorial! I frequently burn my fingers trying to get the skin off the peppers because I am too impatient to wait.
Be patient, I don’t want you burning your fingers!! And the steaming makes it easier to remove the skins 🙂 Promise!
These peppers look beautiful, so perfect 🙂 this how-tp is so helpful!
I love it! This helped me make the perfect peppers :D!!! Thank you
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I just found your blog today.  I have a great suggestion for you for using the roasted peppers.  Use the meat from about four of them and put in the food processor with a little olive oil, salt and minced garlic.  Makes a great dip for crackers or a topping for fish when warmed.  You can of course mix any spice you like.  Let sit in the fridge for a day before using to let the flavors  really develop together.
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