How to Dehydrate Bell Peppers
Don't let bell peppers go to waste! Learn how to dehydrate them and store them for all year long. In just a few simple steps, you can preserve bell peppers for months! Improve your cooking with this easy home-preservation technique.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 13 large green, red, or yellow bell peppers
- 1 tub cold water
Instructions
Prep
- Wash the bell peppers in a tub of cold water to clean any dirt or debris. Repeat if needed. Pat dry with a lint free towel.
How Dehydrate Bell Peppers
- Cut the cap off the top of each bell pepper. Remove the core and seeds. Cut each pepper in half or in quarter pieces. Remove the seeds and pull or cut off the piece of membrane between the pepper sections.
- Cut the bell peppers into ¼ inch strips or ¼ to ½ inch dice or cubes using a sharp knife or a chopper. Repeat with all of the peppers.
- Spread the diced or sliced bell pepper pieces in a single layer over dehydrator trays that have been lined with a mesh screen to prevent the smaller pieces from falling through the trays as they dry and shrink. Repeat until all of the pieces have been arranged on trays.
- If the dehydrator has a temperature control set the temperature to 125 degrees. Place the lid on or close the door and dehydrate the bell peppers for 6 to 11 hours or until the bell peppers are dry through the center and feel dry and leathery to the touch.
- Once the bell peppers are dry allow them to cool completely.
- Transfer the dried and cooled sweet bell pepper pieces to an air tight container. Store the container in a dark cool cabinet.
- Use the dried bell pepper to season soups, stews and other recipes. Or grind the dried peppers into a powder to make your own custom blends of seasonings.
Recipe Expert Tips
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- fresh bell peppers: pick fresh unblemished sweet bell peppers for dehydrating.
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- mesh liners: Line your dehydrator trays with mesh liners or the dried pieces will fall through the larger hole of the dehydrator tray. Mesh liners are available for every type of food dehydrator.
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- drying times will vary: Bell peppers can take anywhere from 4 hours to 12 hours to dehydrate. Separate the green, red, yellow and orange pepper pieces and dry them separately.
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- dehydrated size: keep in mind that the pepper pieces will shrink to more than half the size as they dry.
Nutrition
Serving: 1ServingCalories: 15kcalCarbohydrates: 4gProtein: 1gFat: 0.2gSaturated Fat: 0.04gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.004gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 125mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 1854IUVitamin C: 76mgCalcium: 4mgIron: 0.3mg
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