Peperonata: summer baked pan of peppers, onions & tomatoes
Peperonata is one of my passions and I put it on the table in every season.
I have mine recipe, tested ( and, too), that I've been always preparing.
And I have a version, more summery and crispy, that I reserve for summer: baked in the oven
With peppers of every color and only a small onion despite my usual generosity with onions.
I wrote crispy because, with this cooking and leaving the peppers into slices big enough, even when you get them to the table they they are still firm to the bite:
they are fantastic even to stuff a sandwich...
Of course I generally use it as a side dish; on the contrary, I try to do it: because as soon as it comes out of the oven there is a strong temptation to take it out with forkfuls and morsels of bread!
A good pepper pan is also characterized by the spices that add flavor: here takes pride thyme, caught just before in the garden (but also grows well in a pot on the balcony ...) and used without covetousness!
And now, starting as always from the ingredients, let's start cooking!:
Ingredients:
red peppers | pz | 1 |
yellow peppers | pz | 1 |
green peppers | pz | 1 |
onion | pz | 1 |
extra virgin olive oil | CT | 3 |
Thyme; | sprig | 1 |
salt and pepper | QB | |
Origan | pinch (made with three fingers) | 1 |
paprika (optional) | QB | |
pepper (optional) | ad lib | |
tomato pulp | CT | 3 |
cup sugar | pinch (made with three fingers) | 1 |
parsley to season | Ad Lib |
Preparation:
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Preheat the oven to 180 °, in the time that the ingredients are clean and the pan will be at the right temperature.
Cut into thick slices peppers, remove seeds and white parts, wash them well and let them drip dry a few minutes.
Clean an onion and then slice it into rings as thin as possible
(In cooking should almost disappear).
Mix them in a pan along with thyme, oregano, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper.
If you also like to add a pinch of paprika and, for those who like spicy, like me, also a chili.
Holding, for now, from the tomato pulp and sugar.
Bake for half an hour.
After this time, remove from the oven briefly to finish with the chopped tomatoes and a pinch of sugar.
Then mix well and put in the oven for ten or fifteen minutes:
to me the overcooked peppers that they tend to get rid of do not like, so I generally do not go beyond this time;
moreover, if you wanted to prepare the peppers in advance and heat it before serving, it might start to overcook.
Serve it seasoned at the moment by a generous handful of parsley (I actually use the burner but ... not everyone in the garden or on the windowsill has it!).
It is excellent served immediately, fresh from the oven; but also lukewarm or cold, perhaps the next day, if by chance it was left over.
Buon appetito!
ADVICES AND NOTES:
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- Recipe, text only: to print or download.
- For a stronger flavor, replace some of the salt with granular vegetable broth.
- To emphasize the flavor of the tomato, complete with two teaspoons of tomato paste.