{"id":1127,"date":"2010-10-06T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suziethefoodie.com\/uncategorized\/tutorial-how-to-make-oven-roasted-red-bell-peppers\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:05:00","slug":"tutorial-how-to-make-oven-roasted-red-bell-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suziethefoodie.com\/tutorial-how-to-make-oven-roasted-red-bell-peppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: How to make oven-roasted red bell peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n On all my favourite cooking shows the hosts always say you can just put red peppers under the broiler to make roasted red bell peppers. Then they proceed to use a gas burner instead. I do not have a gas burner so I was always dubious about how easy these were to make in the oven. I got a small bag of red peppers for $1.50 (what a deal!) and wanted to try oven-roasting them.<\/p>\n I turned on the broiler, let it heat up and then put the peppers two inches away from the element. I was surprised that it took a while but they did start to blacken over time. I turned them over to expose the other side of the flesh. Whatever you do, do not use parchment paper when you do this process, it will go up in flames!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n After about 10 minutes my peppers had blackened here and there and were ready to be put into a brown paper bag. I left them in there for at least ten minutes.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Beautiful! I took off the tops, removed the seeds and did not <\/i>run them under water, this will dilute their flavour. Definitely a little more time consuming than using a gas burner but not hard at all, in fact, impressively easy to make. There is so much you can do with these peppers: soups, dips, pasta sauces… I am going to try everything!<\/p>\n