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- From: mcvl@src.dec.com (Mary-Claire van Leunen)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Roasted red peppers
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- Date: 15 Apr 88 05:33:46 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE PEPPER-ROAST V "6 Jul 87" 1988
- .RZ "ROASTED RED PEPPERS" "A low-calorie but flavorful red pepper salad"
- Safeway got in their first carload of really cheap red peppers yesterday,
- and I made roasted pepper salad.
- .PP
- Serve this at room temperature as a side dish for anything Nicoise or
- Spanish or Greek or Egyptian. Or make a meal of them by adding a bowl of
- yoghurt, a bowl of chopped onion, some black olives, radishes, and
- pistachios, and lots of warm pita bread. Or use it with saut\z\(aaeed
- garlic and pitted black olives and a little reduced white wine as a spaghetti
- sauce.
- .IH "Serves 4"
- .IG "1 lb" "fresh red peppers" "500 g"
- (sweet red capsicum peppers)
- .IG "\(14 cup" "lemon juice" "50 ml"
- .IG "" "salt"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat broiler as hot as you can get it.
- Turn red peppers under the broiler until their skins come up in black bubbles.
- Cool the peppers until you can handle them comfortably.
- .SK 2
- Remove the skins, stems, cores, and seeds.
- (This is messy work. I have tried removing the innards first,
- before putting the peppers under the broiler, and the result is not
- so good as this way.)
- .SK 3
- Cut the peppers into finger shapes. Flavor them with fresh lemon juice
- and salt.
- .SK 4
- Let them sit for several hours, draining off the liquid that forms.
- .NX
- Now. Here is the real point about this recipe: These roasted peppers
- are insanely delicious, smooth and unctuous and aromatic, and yet
- they contain absolutely no calories. A full-sized red pepper is only
- 15 calories.
- .PP
- Of \fIcourse\fR I could lose weight if I never ate more than three
- tablespoons of anything. Any fool could do that. But I don't want
- to confine myself to three tablespoons. Perhaps my tastebuds work
- more slowly that other people's. I don't seem to get the hang of
- what I'm eating till the second serving, or sometimes the third.
- .PP
- At the same time, I want things that are really voluptuous and good
- to eat, full of interesting, complicated flavors that will satisfy
- me and make me feel happy and rewarded. Again, any fool could lose
- weight by eating celery stalks and carrots. Unfortunately, any number
- of carrot sticks over six makes me grumpish, and raw celery turns
- me positively surly in short order unless accompanied by delicious,
- fattening sour cream and cream cheese.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 15 minutes preparation, several hours aging.
- .I Precision:
- no need to measure.
- .WR
- Mary-Claire van Leunen
- DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California, USA
- mcvl@src.dec.com -or- decwrl!decsrc!mcvl
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